DPS | Dog Walking | Pet Sitting

Best Pet Care in West Hartford, CT

Dog Walking | Cat Sitting | Dog Sitting

All Staff Hired by david, DPS owner and social worker!

David’s first profession was psychotherapy. At DPS, we like to utilize people’s individual skills. We believe David’s best skill is judge of character. All employees of DPS are background checked, interviewed, and hired by David.

See Your Walk’s Map On Our App!

With our app you can schedule dog walks and so much more. Best of all you can see a map of exactly where we went while walking your dog.

Positive Dog Training

Our walkers receive Dog Behavioral Training. Theory = Positive Dog Training (google it!).

Pet CPR & First Aid Certified

You can rest assured. Every DPS Team Member is Pet CPR & First Aid certified.

WeHa's Best Dog Walking Company

We Also do Pet Sitting!

(We Love Cats)

DPS serves West Hartford and surrounding towns. Primarily, our business provides a Dog Walking service that, for example, comes to walk your dog while you're at work. We are also the safest (and most fun) Pet Sitting team you'll find in West Hartford, CT.

You can feel confident knowing our employees not only *want* to treat your pets well, but *know* how to do it too. We handle, walk, touch, instruct, and love your dogs and cats based on positive reinforcement principles only. Along with extensive training on safety procedures in and out of the house, we are prepared to do the job right.

Bonded
By Pet Sitters Associates
Insured
By Pet Sitters Associates
Federal and State Licensed
We're BFFs With the IRS
W2 Employees
We Do It Right!

Meet Our Family

Staff So Trustworthy, It Hurts

David Steinberg

Owner, Head Dog Trainer, Dog Rollerblader

From West Hartford, David is a social worker. He started DPS in grad school and hasn’t looked back since. He recently retired as a therapist to take on DPS full time. He has officially gone from therapist to doggist.

Nadia Aguilar-Steinberg

Dog Walker, Owner’s Boss

Nadia’s an award winning opera singer from Torreon, Mexico. In 2010, the Hartt School heard her, then offered a full scholarship! Now she’s continuing her passion as a masters student at UConn. Our advice? Befriend her now, before she’s too famous!

Diego

Boss of Everyone

Diego runs the show around here. While he still may be a little wobbly in the knees, he’s clearly a prodigy in the making. Pretty soon the D in DPS will mean Diego. Any day now…

Erin

Field Manager, Opera Singer, Artist

Erin is our team leader out in the field. Not only is she amazing with pets, but she is incredibly artistically gifted. She is a trained opera singer and a fantastic illustrator!

Clara

Office Manager, Etsy Shop Owner

Clara is a wizard at creating dog walking routes for our staff. With her watchful eye she gets back to all our clients, She makes the DPS machine run smoothly all day! Aside from DPS she is a talented artist and violist.

Justine

Dog Walker, Retired Exec

Justine comes from the corporate life over at Whole Foods. She decided that she now wants to work at a place that has Whole[some] Dogs. We’re so happy to have Justine, she’s amazing!

Will

Dog Walker, Pro Wrestling Referee

Will comes to us as a bonafide dog person with professional experience from a doggy day care. He’s also a professional wrestling referee! Watch Netflix’s ‘Glow’ – that’s his life!

Ansley

Dog Walker, Tennis Phenom

Ansley is multi-talented. She’s great with dogs and also played Division 1 Tennis! There is a rumor that David hired her just to get cheap tennis lessons…

Grace

Dog Walker, Obsessed With Speaking Spanish

Grace is hard-working, fun, and multi-talented. She’s also fluent in Spanish! After college she wants to work at an American embassy in a Spanish speaking country. Grace es excelente!

Alyssa

Dog Walker, Pet Sitter, Marketing Pro

Alyssa is what we like to call a go getter. She loves her full time job as a marketing professional, but ADORES her fluffy, cuddly job as a dog walker and pet sitter too!

Jamie

Dog Walker, Yoga Teacher

Kiana

Dog Walker, Student

Break down the phrase dog walking and that explains Kiana. She loves DOGS and WALKING is her specialty (she is studying to become a medical professional in podiatry!).

Marci

Dog Lover, Dog Walker

Marci has a huge heart and loves walking dogs during the day. She has a great sense of humor and the doggies think so too.

Edward

Dog Walker, Lawyer

Kelly

Opera Singer, Dog Walker, Pet Sitter

Kelly is what we like to describe as a triple threat. She walks dogs when clients are at work, she pet sits when clients are on vacation, and she sings opera! That’s what they mean by being a triple threat!

Vanessa

Dog Walker, Professional Cheerleader

Cassandra

Dog Walker, Teacher

Cass is a teacher and a dog walker. She’s smart and loves teaching dogs lessons on how to behave nicely. Kids are like dogs!

Ella

History Buff, Pet Sitter

When Ella isn’t “history buffing” at the Mark Twain House, she’s “history buffing” with the dogs and cats she pet sits. The pets think her historical facts are pawtastic. No, really, they do. (They told me)