August 27, 2026 at 4:55 am

Her Dog Walker Refused to Walk Her Aggressive Dog Alone for Free—So She Tried to Destroy His Business

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When you own a small business, time is money.

Sure, you’d love to accommodate each and every customer request…but it’s just not realistic, ya know?

The guy who wrote this story owns a dog walking business and now he’s getting a lot of flack from a customer who is, predictably, making everything about herself.

Get all the details below and see what you think about this.

AITA for charging a customer more for a special request?

“I’m the owner of a dog walking company with 3 employees.

We usually try to walk 6-10 dogs per walk and person so we are charging a fair amount of money per dog. Sometimes we only have 3-4 dogs but never less than that per walk and we don’t charge extra for that.

He got a request…

Now this lady asked me to walk her dog solo because he is scared of other dogs. I told her we don’t really do that as we can not possibly cover the costs for the walk with the standard rate.

Since I feel bad for the dog not having any outside time at all because of her not wanting to do it herself I offered her a rate for 3 dogs which is super fair in my opinion and she said I’m trying to exploit her for personal gains.

This lady sounds a bit unhinged…

I could easily make double the money in this hour walking other peoples’ dogs. She started contacting other clients of mine trying to talk bad about me and I lost two customers because of it.

As a result of that I told her I’m not going to walk her dog for any money and stopped reading her texts or accepting her calls.

AITA for doing that?

I don’t feel like I did anything wrong but losing those other customers makes me feel I’m kinda bad in other peoples eyes?

Should I offer something else?

Maybe try and socialize the dog so we can add other dogs to the walk?”

Check out what readers had to say about this.

This person had a lot to say.

Another Reddit user weighed in.

This individual spoke up.

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