Hiya, I'm Carey.

I'm a registered veterinary nurse with more than 25 years of caring for other people's animals. For most of that time, running my own business wasn't the plan — until the plan got taken out of my hands.

In 2020, my locum contract vanished overnight (thanks, Covid!). A single parent with three kids to feed, a mortgage to pay, and no backup. So I did the only thing that made sense: I started walking dogs. No grand strategy — just a way to keep the lights on.

That "just to get by" idea turned into a business turning over £250k a year, built from scratch in the worst year imaginable to build anything. I learned it all the hard way — the legal bits, the insurance, the pricing, the mistakes — with nobody to hand me a map.

That's exactly why Zero to Walkies exists. Not to sell you a dream, but to hand you the honest, in-the-right-order guide I'd have given anything for back then. If you're stuck at a desk wondering whether you could really do this — you can. Let me show you how.