A unique business emerged in 2016 through the form of an app called Bark’N’Borrow. This app allows users who cannot take care of a dog full time to find people who need a temporary dog sitter and enjoy a short time with someone else’s pet. In addition, different dog owners can connect and trade dog sitting duties with each other. Many options such as dog breed, personality, and distance can be made available on the app for other users to see. The platform donates 5% of all subscriptions to Best Friends Animal Society. Liam Berkeley, 26, founded the company two years ago on National Dog Day and has mentioned how much animal rescues love the app because it brings awareness to their cause.
Berkeley has done a fantastic job of finding a need and filling the gap. Finding a dog sitter can be an arduous, time intensive process, but now someone can connect with lots of other users for $7.99 or $4.99 a month. Berkeley has also been diligent in making sure all users are properly checked and that the company has adequate insurance for any incidents.. This app demonstrates Liam’s commitment to dogs and dog-lovers. Bark’n’Borrow shows this passion with an excellent social entrepreneurship aspect. They focused on a passion and Liam was observant enough to recognize a fantastic solution for a simple problem.
This problem is one that I have thought about for many years. I always wondered how people in commercials, movies and TV had full time jobs and also had pets. I didn’t know anyone in my actual life who was able to do it. It is awesome that these entrepreneurs came up with such a good idea in an area that people are willing to spend money. Pet owners will spend a lot of money to improve the quality of life for their pets. I think it is a great choice of market, I think they are genuinely improving the life of pets and I think they definitely identified a pain and developed an innovative solution.
Bark’N’Borrow definitely fulfills big need and is an app that I could benefit from as well. I have two golden retrievers and trying to find someone to take care of them sometimes can be a real struggle. Taking them somewhere can cost hundreds of dollars so I think this app is a really good idea. I like that fact that it brings together people that need a dog sitter and people that just have a love for dogs. Their is a huge market for this as well so there should be no problem finding customers. This young entrepreneur is definitely headed in the right direction!
This is great for people that go away all the time. My family is away all the time especially because me and my brother are at college now so my dog is home along all the time. I should tell my parents about this service so we can take advantage of it.