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Case Study · Zenlio Local

Muddy paws, big adventures, and a website that keeps up

Emma Adley runs Doggy Paws on Patrol from Fleet: hour-long countryside group walks with pickup from your door, plus grooming. Four years walking dogs professionally, fully insured, DBS checked and Canine First Aid trained. Her brand already existed on a printed flyer, all black brush strokes, loud orange and a paint-splat logo. We built the site to match it. Twenty-nine pages, a page for each of the twelve towns she covers, twenty-two client reviews shown word for word, and three client forms an owner can fill in on their phone.

Doggy Paws on Patrol
Dog walking & grooming · Fleet, Hampshire
StatusLive
OwnerEmma Adley
Pages built29
Town pages12
Guides6
Client reviews22
Fillable forms3
Visit the live site
Four dogs splashing in a stream on a Doggy Paws on Patrol group walk near Fleet, Hampshire. One of Emma Adley's own photos used on the website.
One of Emma's own photos. The site uses pictures from her walks, not stock.
What we built
29
pages across services, towns, guides and forms
12
town pages, each written for that town
22
client reviews, word for word, each with the dog's photo
3
fillable client forms that work on a phone
From around the site

Real towns, real dogs, real reviews

Every page answers a question an owner would otherwise message Emma about: does she cover my town, what do other owners say, and what do I need to fill in before the first walk.

The brand behind it

Built from the flyer

Emma's brand started on paper: a paint-splat logo, black brush strokes and orange you can see from across a field. We could have tidied it into something polite. We carried it across instead, with brush-stroke buttons, splats in the corners and a hand-drawn headline font.

Patrol orange
#F7760D
Ink
#141210
Cream
#FFFCF6
Text orange
#B04A00
Caveat Brush
Headings
Oswald
Labels and buttons
Nunito
Body copy
Doggy Paws on Patrol homepage, with an orange hero, brush-stroke buttons, Emma's paint-splat logo and a photo of two dogs running through long grass
The homepage. Orange hero, brush-stroke buttons, and the logo straight off the flyer.
On the town pages

Photos from the actual walks

On seven of the town pages, the photo was taken on a walk in that town. We checked each one against its location data before it went up, then stripped that data out of the published files.

Dogs on a Doggy Paws on Patrol group walk in the countryside around Hook, Hampshire
Hook
Dogs on a Doggy Paws on Patrol group walk near Odiham, Hampshire
Odiham
Dogs on a Doggy Paws on Patrol group walk near Crookham, Hampshire
Crookham
Dogs on a Doggy Paws on Patrol group walk near Hartley Wintney, Hampshire
Hartley Wintney

Emma is a former teacher who has walked dogs professionally for four years. She works on her own. She collects dogs from home in her van, takes them out for an hour in the countryside in a small group of dogs that get on, sends photos from the walk and drops them home tired. She grooms too, mostly at her home in Fleet. The site's job was to make her easy to find for owners in the towns around her, and to answer the questions they'd otherwise have to message her about.

A page for every town she covers

Emma walks dogs in Hook, Hartley Wintney, Elvetham, Camberley, Crookham, Winchfield, Yateley, Farnborough, Aldershot, Odiham, North Warnborough and Farnham. Each one has its own page, written for that town rather than copied twelve times with the name swapped: where it sits, how pickup works, questions owners there ask, and its own schema. Where Emma had a photo from a walk in that town, it's on that page.

Reviews, word for word

Emma had twenty-two recommendations from clients. They're all on the site, unedited, each with a photo of the dog it's about. The grooming page leads with the review that talks about grooming. The group walks page leads with one about pickup and drop-off. A review does more work next to the thing it's praising.

The admin, sorted

New clients need a walking agreement, a registration form for each dog, and a consent form for grooming. We turned all three into fillable PDFs, so an owner can complete them on a phone and email them back before the meet and greet. The registration form asks what a walker needs to know up front: bite history, escape risk, permission to travel in the van, and key safe details.

Built to be found

Six guides answer what owners look up before they book: what a dog walker costs in Fleet, what happens at a meet and greet, whether a dog suits group walks, how often to get a dog groomed, winter mud and coat care, and what to look for in a walker. Every page sits in one linked schema graph, there's an llms.txt for AI search, a privacy page with cookie consent, and analytics so we can see what visitors actually do.

Where it sits now

The site is live at doggypawsonpatrol.com. It's early days, so there are no traffic or enquiry figures to quote yet, and we're not going to make any up. When there are real numbers, they'll go here.

I honestly think my dog loves Emma more than me! I have complete trust in the way she cares for him, always treating him like one of her own.
Matt Hankin
Doggy Paws on Patrol client · Bertie's owner

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Doggy Paws on Patrol is based in Fleet. See web design in Fleet and web design in Farnborough.