A network for dog people, run by a dog person.
Part directory, part group chat, part excuse to get a few dozen dogs in the same park on a Saturday.
Catherine Manor started the way most good things do — informally, around a labradoodle, with no business plan. It grew into a real community network for Bay Area dog owners: a place to find walkers and sitters, swap vet recommendations, organize meetups, and trade the kind of advice you only get from people whose couches have also been destroyed.
It was never meant to be a company. It was a thing I built because it should exist — the same instinct behind everything I've made since. When the pandemic shut down the in-person gatherings that were its whole point, I wound it down rather than pretend it was something it wasn't.
Community first
Owners helping owners — sitters, walkers, vet tips, and meetups — with the dogs doing most of the networking.
Bay Area roots
Built for Silicon Valley dog owners — small enough to feel like a neighborhood, organized enough to actually help.
Built for love
No revenue, no roadmap — just a project that made a few hundred dogs' and owners' weekends better while it lasted.