A Pack Walk Adventure is a one-hour, off-leash hike through the forests of Victoria, BC, with a small pack of 5–7 carefully matched dogs — led by a professional Pack Leader.

We pick your dog up from home, hit the trails, and drop them back off — happily tired — with a quick wipe-down before they come inside. It's not a walk around the block, and it's not a free-for-all. It's an intentionally social, stimulating, safe adventure.

Dog parks can feel like chaos magnets — you don't choose who shows up and neither does your dog.

Our packs are the opposite: 5–6 dogs, deliberately matched by energy, size, age, and temperament, walking with the same group consistently so that real trust, confidence, and social skills develop. Add a trained Pack Leader supervising the whole time, recall training woven into every walk, and varied trail terrain instead of a fenced field, and it's a fundamentally different experience.

Two things, mainly.

First, our packs are small and thoughtfully matched — 5–7 dogs grouped by energy, size, age, and temperament, kept consistent so your dog builds real confidence and connections with the same pack over time. You’ll never catch us taking out 20+ dogs at once.

Second, every walk is led by a licensed, certified, insured Pack Leader trained in canine first aid — not just someone who likes dogs.

Anyone can take your dog for a walk. Social Dogs Club enriches their lives.

At your Meet & Greet, we assess your dog's energy level, personality, age, size, social skills, and anything you tell us about them. Then we place them in a pack of similar dogs — and keep that pack as consistent as possible, so your dog sees familiar faces on every adventure.

Pack matching is the heart of what makes our walks so unique. It's how shy dogs come out of their shells. It’s how high-energy dogs can let loose without putting themselves or any other dogs at risk. It’s how the little dogs get to adventure in the forest without getting bowled over by a big dog.

It’s the difference between getting your dog walked and seeing real, tangible growth in your dog’s vitality and social skills.

We’re licensed by the CRD to hike several different forest trails throughout the Victoria area, with varied, interesting terrain — hills to climb, things to sniff, logs to leap.

We alternate locations so that every adventure brings new smells and sensations, which is a big part of the mental stimulation that makes our dogs come home so satisfied (and so ready for a nap).

Yes! Imagine if we didn’t?

Rain or shine, we’re out on the trails. We give every dog a quick wipe-down before drop-off so the mud stays out of your house.

In rare cases of genuinely unsafe weather (extreme wind, snow, storms or heat warnings), we’ll make the call to cancel or reschedule adventures. Safety first, always.

Mostly, no.

If it’s raining or you know your dog just loves a good roll in the mud, leave a towel by your front door and we’ll give them a good wipe-down.

We do our best to make sure the forest stays in the forest, but we also want to let dogs be dogs.

Yes, with one exception: our team takes a Holiday Break in late December!

We give all our clients plenty of notice, and packs pick right back up in January.