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title: "Hike Doggie Canine Client Leaves Epic 5-Star Review on Yelp"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/8829c8dd-6620-4ffb-ba13-f81397704b16
source: "Franchising.com"
original_url: https://www.franchising.com/news/20260713_hike_doggie_canine_client_leaves_epic_5star_review_on_yelp.html
category: "Pets"
industry: "Pets"
published: 2026-07-13T12:00:00.000Z
modified: 2026-10-31T14:43:32.473Z
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# Hike Doggie Canine Client Leaves Epic 5-Star Review on Yelp

**TL;DR:** Hike Doggie, a franchised business offering pet hiking services, received a 5-star Yelp review from a dog named Gunnar, whose experience on a daylong hiking adventure was described as the greatest adventure of his life. The review, written from Gunnar's perspective, has been shared by Hike Doggie's founder, Kath Allen, to showcase the brand's mission to make dogs happy.

*originally published in Franchising.com on 2026-07-13. [Read the original](https://www.franchising.com/news/20260713_hike_doggie_canine_client_leaves_epic_5star_review_on_yelp.html).*

## Story

“Gunnar,” a four-year old Black Labrador Retriever whose mom is local Denver resident Kristi Gacke, was recently introduced to Hike Doggie and left an epic 5-star Yelp review about his experience on a daylong hiking adventure back on June 16. What he initially thought was just going to be a routine walk around the block in his own neighborhood ended up being, as Gunnar states without a hint of exaggeration, “…the greatest adventure of my life.”

“This first-person pup review on Yelp is definitely a first for us,” stated Kath Allen, founder of Hike Doggie, a franchised business that offers pet parents round-trip excursions to the great outdoors where their soulmate companions receive professional daylong hiking services filled with adventure, snacks, social media snaps, and branded gear, concluding with end-of-day baths. “The moment we spotted the post, we just knew we had to share Gunnar’s five-star review with as many people as possible. What he wrote in his awesome Yelp review perfectly encapsulates what makes our full-service hiking adventures so special for dogs, capturing the very essence of our brand’s mission statement to ‘make dogs as happy as they make us.’”

Written from Gunnar’s own perspective, the review begins with a disclaimer that he’s a real canine and not a paid spokesdog, before launching into a detailed and descriptive narrative of his experience as a Hike Doggie client. Not one to mince words (or barks), he shared that the all-day adventure was the “greatest day of his life, narrowly beating the time he found a half a chicken nugget in a parking lot.” While being transported away to the Rockies in one of Hike Doggie’s climate-controlled “Big Blue Busses,” Gunnar explained he was so excited for the trip itself that only moments after departing from his human owner, he felt he was “…already gone emotionally.”

Pretty deep thoughts for a four-legged fur baby.

Gunnar winds down his five-star Yelp review with only one complaint - the fact that Hike Doggie eventually had to bring him back home. He signed off on the post with a signature file of his own, describing himself as the “Founder & CEO of Barkshire Hathaway, as well as the Director of Sniff Operations/Lead Squirrel Intelligence Officer, Good Boy, First Class.”

## Entities

- Franchising.com (publication)
- Pets (sector)
- pet services (topic)
- Hike Doggie (company)
- Kath Allen (person)
- franchised business (topic)
- Kristi Gacke (person)
- customer review (topic)
- yelp review (topic)

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Originally reported by Franchising.com (https://www.franchising.com/news/20260713_hike_doggie_canine_client_leaves_epic_5star_review_on_yelp.html). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/8829c8dd-6620-4ffb-ba13-f81397704b16).