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A DOG walker has revealed a "nasty" side hustle that can make you up to £10,000 extra a month.
Kelly Bullock, who owns her own business called Mucky Paws, revealed that the job is perfect for anyone who walks as a dog walker, but can be done by anyone, with no qualifications needed.
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"There's a huge business potential that us dog walkers are overlooking, because it's absolutely huge in America", she revealed in a TikTok video, posted to her dog walking account @mucky.paws.dog.walker.
Kelly revealed that with just 13 clients, you can make an extra £1000 a month with this side hustle, and with 100 clients, you can make £10,000 a month.
"There is zero people in my town doing this service", she said, highlighting that the side hustle is a gap in the market.
The side hustle Kelly is referring to in her video is dog poo scooping, which she said is perfect if you're a dog waker, as you can just add it as an existing service to your business.
However, she added that she would never do this herself as its a job she doesn't "like doing".
She added that even though her own dogs get walked all the time, she has to deep clean her garden every week because of the poo, meaning that many people will be in the same boat, and will be looking for someone to clean up the poo for them.
Scooper Heroes is a dog poo scooping business that offers to do the "nastiest job" for you.
The business charges up to £80 per visit, to get gardens dog poo free.
The Hertfordshire based business said: "Scooper Heroes exists for one simple reason: to take the nastiest job in dog ownership off your hands so you can focus on the good bits.
"Based right here in Hertfordshire, we help dog owners keep their gardens clean, safe, and smell-free by doing the one thing no one wants to do: picking up the poo.
I'm a stay-at-home-mum but make £20K a month selling people's cast offs - my hubby's even quit his job to help me
"Whether you're juggling work and family, managing a busy household, or simply tired of dodging dog mess in the grass, we're here to help."
Kelly's video has likely left many people impressed, as it has been flooded with comments from social media users, intrigued by the business venture.
One person said: "I pick up random poops when I'm out walking as just hate to see them all over.
"Never thought about monetising it."
Top five easiest side hustles Dog walking Babysitting Selling clothes on Vinted or Depop Start a Youtube or TikTok channel Tutoring
A second person said: "I was always thinking of ideas to earn extra money, so I might seriously think about this!"
A third person added: "I didnt even know this was a thing.
"I think I'm meant for this job."
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'It's crazy how much second-hand shoes can sell for,' he says. 'Sometimes more than their original retail price, depending on rarity.' Like any reseller worth his salt, though, he clocks value-added everywhere. 'If I see the profit in an old deck chair sitting there in the field, I'm still buying it.' (Which is, perhaps, how he ended up lugging home a 15kg vice: it was his background in carpentry that helped him spot that particular bargain.) And, nine years on, he no longer turns up late, often getting up at 4am on Sundays to be the first in the field. 'It pays to be first,' he says. 'After a few months the body clock gets used to it.' As well as giving Beal a new career, the car boots have also given him a tight-knit network. 'The majority of my mates are eBay sellers like myself that I've met in the field over the years,' he says. 'I have a stronger bond with them than anyone else in my friendship group as we're all in the same game.' In a world where, too often, transactions can be, well, transactional, there is a lot to celebrate about car boot sales, in all their eccentric, esoteric glory. Perhaps most charming of all, though, is the fact that car boots are, typically, family affairs. Chorlton, for example, goes with her mum. 'No one can make a plan on a Wednesday because we have to go to the car boots,' she says, describing the experience as an opportunity for the pair to bond. 'That's our day that we have every week.' Beal, too, brings his family along. 'My three-year-old daughter Cece sits in the car boot trolley sometimes,' he says, before revealing that it'll be a while before his newborn son – born on July 13 (a car boot day, incidentally, although Beal assures me he 'missed that one') – will join him. 'Maybe in a few years I'll bring the little one,' he says. Still, if anyone is ready for the broken sleep and early starts of life with a tiny baby, it's a seasoned car booter like Beal.
