What do you do when you notice something is wrong with your dog's behavor after a long day at work. You find pee on the floor or your dog seems a little more tired then usual.Or maybe the dog walker is supposed to do something so you know they are there and all of a sudden they change the way they do it. You hired one person for the job but the handwriting on the note looks different. What do you do? You love your dog walker and having one allows you to be at work and know your dog is getting to go out in the middle of the day when you can't get home. Do you stay home from work one day to check on things or meet your dog at the park when the dog walker is supposed to be there and miss time at work doing it? Well in NYC there is someone who can check on things for you. He will investigate your dog walker before you hire them or look into an issue while they are supposed to be working so you can stay at work and not loose the money you need in order to afford to have a dog walker.
The mystified Manhattan dog owner noticed something was terribly wrong when her white border terrier began preferring the apartment's bathroom to a fire hydrant. And she knew there was only one man who could crack the case: Brock Schwartz, dog-walker inspector.
So the 29-year-old pooch private eye set up a palm-size hidden camera in the bathroom with remote Web access. Before long, the lens captured the dog's dastardly walker leading the terrier to do his business in the bathtub -- so that he didn't have to take the dog out. "He would clean the tub," Schwartz said. "We saw it all on the cam. "Just another day keeping paw and order.
Schwartz sniffs out lazy or larcenous dog walkers for well-heeled clients -- mostly from the Upper West Side, Upper East Side, Chelsea and the Flatiron District. He says he has a list of more than 20 steady clients. Often, new dog owners hire him for a one-time $50 inspection. Other times, owners solicit his services after observing that their best friend's behavior is off. "They notice something is going on," Schwartz said. "The dog is lethargic on certain days, not eating, something specific like that." He also periodically spies on walkers during strolls. And he installs doggy cams -- which work just like nanny cams -- for $150. The pet detective is a former dog walker himself, and he started his security business in 2008 after working for an "unethical" company. Schwartz said the now-defunct service had him walk two dogs at once, even though, unbeknownst to him, one of the pets' owners had paid for a solo session with another walker.
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