Helping Paws SoCal

Flexible, compassionate, and trustworthy! The team at Helping Paws SoCal does great work with our dog and two cats! Their always on time and work extremely well with our pets. Our dog is elderly and has a few behavioral issue. Devyn and Vanessa have really worked hard to make him and consequently, us, feel at ease. Our schedule changes rapidly and the Helpling Paws team accommodates our changes well and seamlessly. I highly recommend the folks at Helping Paws SoCal. more

The five star reviews are true. After meeting them, I trusted them completely with a very fragile, older feline and had no worries while away. Most reviews seem dog related, so let me speak for the felines - purrrfect match. I think our remaining cat wishes we traveled more so she can get spoiled by Vanessa. more

Helping Paws of SoCal is simply amazing. The owners, Vanessa and Devyn, are compassionate animal lovers who are consummate professionals with excellent customer service. They are kind, dedicated, helpful, and resourceful. Their prices are fair. We have lived in many places across the country, and we have worked with numerous pet-sitters. Helping Paws of SoCal provides better services than any of the other businesses that we have employed. One of our pets is a 12-year old Lhasa Apso with a progressive aggressive-anxiety disorder and moderate-severe arthritis. Vanessa and Devyn have been willing and able to work with him and have given him a wonderful quality of life. We will be forever indebted to them for helping our little rescue Lhasa, when no-one else was even willing to try. We utilize several of their services; including daily mid-afternoon dog walks, emergency last-minute services, and overnight services during our vacations. We have never boarded our dog. They also help us with our two cats. We have very high customer service requirements, and Helping Paws of SoCal has exceeded all of our expectations. more

Our dogs LOVE Vanessa and Devyn! We have a beagle and a german shepherd now, but Vanessa and Devyn also took care of our golden who recently passed. We have to roll up the windows when we turn on Vanessa and Devyn's road because our little beagle will jump out the window to run to the door before we can stop the car. It makes me happy to know that our dogs enjoy their stay when we are away! Can't recommend them enough!! more

Before meeting with Helping Paws SoCal, I met with a handful of other dog walking services. Definitely not impressed. A staff member come over for an in-home consultation, which consisted of dropping off paperwork, asking what my dog's name is, and then letting me know when they could add me into their rotation. I had to ask the staff about their background/experience with animals, give an overview of my dog's routine, and where everything in the house was located. Uhm, what? If you're hoping to add me as a client, shouldn't you be asking me those questions, and not the other way around? (Sure, it may have been a bit much for a first-time meeting, but I'm essentially trusting you with my baby.. & people screen their babysitters before they hire them, right?) Anyway, fast forward - so glad that I found Helping Paws SoCal when I did. We (my dog, Kai & I) met both Devyn and Vanessa at the in-home consult & we both loved them instantly! Vanessa and Devyn spent a full 15 minutes just playing with Kai, asking questions about me, & volunteering their background experience working with animals before we even started talking about paperwork. Right off the bat, they asked me all the questions (and more) I had to ask the previous dog walking companies I had met with; to me that says that this isn't just some "side job" for Devyn & Vanessa - they truly care about their clients, as well as the needs of their owners. When we first started working with Helping Paws SoCal my work schedule was really erratic, but it was never an issue asking them to accommodate my availability (or lack thereof, I suppose). During our first two weeks, they'd send me a picture of Kai out on his walk & a little update of how he was doing that day, which was much appreciated :) Lastly, since I "adopted" my dog - one of those "from a friend of a friend of a friend" kinda thing - they offered me a discount off their already great rates, despite that I have no official adoption paperwork. All in all, working with Helping Paws Socal is great, and Kai & I w=couldn't be happier. Thanks again! :D more

Devyn & Vanessa are awesome! I found them by reading reviews online and they always had such terrific remarks that I contacted them and we met with Devyn. We have three dogs and our oldest doesn't do well at the kennel so we had Helping Paws come to the house. We've used them a couple of times and we are in the process now of organizing a schedule for when we'll be out of town next. I feel so fortunate to have found Devyn & Vanessa. I know that when we're gone our dogs are getting awesome care, lots of attention and goods walks. We highly recommend Helping Paws SoCal!! more