APDW launch photos

Treats

The committee wearing pink sashes, (L to R) Jaya, M-J, Lucy & me. Plus assorted helpers, two and four legged.

Some pics taken by the proper, professional photographer at the APDW launch. At least is wasn't raining.

Mine

Launch of the APDW on Barnes Green

Billy stalks a tennis ball (note the APDW logo)

OMG! OMG! OMG! (Rocco writes) Last Friday was the launch of the Association of Professional Dog Walkers on Barnes Green. I came along as someone has to keep an eye on the old guy.

MJ wearing sash

He met up with several professional dog walking ladies, they put up a gazebo and put a lot of “doggy goddie bags” on a table top give out, nobody thought to give me one. There were a lot of puzzled looking dogs on leads. The dog walking ladies all wore fetching grey sashes with pink lettering spelling out the association’s name, I hoped against hope that they would make him wear one too but sadly they were not that foolhardy.

I spent my time demonstrating to the other dogs that I was exempt from lead wearing (tee hee) as he was from sash wearing.

Then him and me were off going round the green accosting people walking their mutts, giving them the goodie bags (the treats inside went down well as did the tennis ball) and ear-bashing them about the Association and how responsible we all were. I kept a straight face. Trouble was it was too close to lunch time to meet many dog owners. 

The professional dog walking ladies were somewhat shell shocked at just how unpopular the dog walkers who arrived in vans with millions of dogs had made dog walkers generally in Barnes.

They had a proper photographer in attendance, the kind of guy who kept saying “lets take that shot of that dog getting a treat again”. Nice fellow, I hope I meet him again.