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About Us
Who Let the Dogs Out?
Let Lake County Dog Walkers & Pet-Sitting Services
Let Your Dogs Out!
Our family has resided in Mentor-on-the-Lake, Ohio along
the scenic Lake Erie coastline for more than twenty years. We have a large, double-fenced-in
yard, big enough to wear out our two dogs and their occasional doggie friends with frequent games of fetch, and are located near several wonderful
dog-friendly parks, including Mentor Beach Park, Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve,
and Veterans Memorial Park.
Within walking distance, our 450-acre nature preserve features the
largest unbroken bluff forest in Northeast Ohio;
along with a gorgeous, thinly-populated, still-wild beach where your dogs can spend
many fun-packed hours running along the shore, and for those dogs who love the
water, swimming during the warm summer months.
The 100-acre Veterans Memorial Park is
also within walking distance from our home, with winding trails that loop in
and out of woods and native wetlands, and which boasts over 800 feet of
beautiful boardwalk. Young Tom Sawyer fishermen with their stick poles and
seasoned fishermen alike gather on the piers at Granger Pond, the largest
inland lake in Lake
County stocked regularly
with catfish, bass, bluegill and rainbow trout. There, along the pond’s sandy
banks, your dog can soak up the sights after a long hike and watch the geese,
ducks, Trumpeter Swans, and solitary Great Blue Heron. Herds of white-tailed deer and their adorable
spotted babies are also ubiquitous in our area and can be glimpsed at both the preserve and Veterans
Park.
All three parks are so close to our
home, they feel like an extension of our own back yard and provide exceptional year-round
invigorating exercise, exploration, and play for our own dogs and dogs left in
our care. On rare occasions, when severe
inclement weather prohibits long walks, we make sure your dog is given as many
opportunities as possible for exercise, play, companionship, and shorter, more
frequent walks, closer to home.
Mary Roulette, the proprietress of Lake County Dog Walkers, is a life-long dog lover and owner. She
is also a Lake County Licensed Substitute
Teacher with a recent background check, and a third year
graduate student enrolled in Kent State’s Creative Writing Program. Her love of dogs has naturally carried over into her writing. "Dog," one of her award winning poems, is featured on this web site under Fun
Facts, Quotes and Poetry; and the protagonist of the novel she is
currently at work on just so happens to be--what else?--a dog walker!
FYI: All dogs, regardless of size or breed, need to be taken
on daily
walks! Walking is one of the most necessary daily routines for your
dogs' mental and overall health and well being. Dogs are naturally and
instinctively walker/travelers. Dog packs rise in the morning and start
trekking right off. Large back yards, dog parks, and doggie daycares
may provide adequate space to exercise your pet but cannot extinguish a
dog's natural drive to walk.
According to Cesar
Millan, a dog's back yard "is like a large fish bowl in which they are
trapped inside. Fish
swim, birds fly and dogs walk. Having a dog should not be about only
fulfilling our human needs; we owe it to our dogs to give them what
THEY need."
Let Lake County Dog Walkers help you walk your
dogs today. Your dogs will love
you for it!
