Testimonials
What My Customers Think
In my many years of experience, I've been able to garner a reputation with my clients for being the most thoughtful and caring dog walker and pet sitter. But don’t just take my word for it. Check out some of the reviews below.
Our kitten Elsie received amazing cat sitting care from Starks and Barks. We found Sam to be professional and friendly and we appreciated the daily updates which was lovely and reassuring! Nothing bad to say... thank you so much! We know where to come in the future :)
Rebecca Best
She was very professional and made sure to tell me the whole process from cost to security of keys and schedule. She instantly had a connection with my kitten, was very knowledgeable and helpful throughout her catsitting stay and provided lots of updates and pictures/videos while away which was also reassuring to have to know how she was getting on and to see her playing and enjoying herself still. would definitely recommend for anyone and I will certainly be asking her to catsit again in future.
Jason Stanford
Would highly recommend Sam to anyone, infact I already do! She’s such a lovely trustworthy person and so great with our two cats, you can tell she has a genuine love for animals, my girls love her too! Which makes it so much easier going away because I know they are in the best hands and are happy! Won’t be using the cattery any longer!
Megan Clark
We have known Sam for 7 years now. She first looked after our German Shepherd Ella walking her for a number of years until she passed over in December 2019. Sam and Ella had a wonderful relationship.
Now Sam is walking our 16 week old Akita called Hamish.he is a shy puppy but loves Sam already after 2 walks.
Hamish came home today a tired by very happy puppy
Sam is a wonderful dig Walker and really builds lively relationships with her charges 🐶🐕🐶🐕😍😍
Frances Lynch
A big thank you to Sam Starks and Barks for looking after Ninja.
After booking a last minute getaway (booked 1 day beforehand!) we were very lucky and extremely grateful that Sam was able to come over for a meet and greet during her rounds, and started cat-sitting for Ninja the next day.
We had daily updates with pictures, which gave us reassurance that Ninja was getting the very best care.
Sam was friendly, welcoming and clearly explained what to expect (we had never used a sitter before).
I would recommend Sam to anyone needing their pet looked after whilst they are away.
Corinne Bass
Our pet son Bingo go for a walk with Sam a few time already and he loved her as well as us! She is the most responsable and pet loving persone we know and we will recommend her service to anyone. Thank you for all the info and input you bring to our family. 🐶💓
Adriana Ragot de Tremont
I'm very grateful for the excellent service supplied by Sam, she was committed, nice and available to all my crazy requests for just 2 guinea pigs. I've found them in the same condition I have left them for 2 weeks, she has cleaned the cage more than once and she has cleaned even outside of it.
She went to the extra mile, because she went to the grocery to refill the veggies and she has sent me the receipt as proof of payment. That was not necessary (because I was believing her), but of course is part of the customer service as is my part to cover all the costs she could tackle.
She was contacting me very frequently and kindly to let me know about my piggies.
I'm very satisfied and I hope she will consider the opportunity to work again with us!
I think she's not behind the money, she's a lovely sample of local entrepreneur
Claudia Weckl Pellegrino
Sam been Walking my girls Mia and Senna for the last two months, she have been absolutely brilliant, she managed to overcome the fears of go into car ride for my chow chows Mia's. She's very flexible and never seem to have problems of parking when picking the girls up like my previous dogs walker did. She is ever so good with them and the girls absolutely loves her and always excited to see her. She gives a lot of attention to details and its not just a job with her, its really show how much she cares for them as i can see how different they have changed since she start walking them with only short two months. I highly recommend her to all my clients, so thank you Sam, you have take alot of my guilt and worries away from being long hours at work.
Hannah Tran
Sam has been looking after my houserabbits for the last two years usually over long weekends. Rabbits seem to have only have two states i.e. alive or dead - they don't really do 'ill' so I am really pleased to have found Sam who I trust to let me know immediately if she thinks anything is amiss with them and to take them to the vet if necessary. Sam is flexible e.g. she fed my pets at short notice when I couldn't get back home once and she always leaves me an update of how the visits went although I'm now slightly jealous of the relationship she is developing with the usually very skittish catherine Howard. I definitely recommend Sam to look after your pets.
Ruth Millard
Sam is professional, organised and clearly an animal lover. She has been looking after our cats, Sparky, Frisky and our new addition Bluebell for several years now during holidays. Nothing is too much trouble, even having to apply thyroid medicine to our elderly cat’s ears! I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her services – thank you Sam.