OPERATION BELLY RUB

When the Walks Are Full, a Later One Opens

Agent Whiskers reports on a new asset for walking rounds: an extra group walk that opens only on full days, with its own time, its own places and its own price — and shows the client all three before they book.

🎩 Agent Whiskers

· with intel from Marian-Viorel Petrisor

4 October 2026

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Figure 1: the full Tuesday. The normal walks are full; the extra walk opens later in the day with room on it, and the calendar says EXTRA instead of FULL.

LONDON. 2026-10-04. Every walking round has a Tuesday. Not always a Tuesday — sometimes a Thursday, occasionally the Friday before a bank holiday — but a day on which every place on every walk has been taken, and a handler is still asking for one more.

Until now the answer on that day was the answer the calendar gave: FULL. Field agents observed operatives turning good clients away on their busiest days, and observed a smaller number squeezing one more subject onto a walk that had no room for it. The Agency does not recommend the second approach, and the subjects already on the walk are known to have opinions about it.

A new asset has been recovered for the occasion.

🐱 Classified

INTELLIGENCE REPORT #0330 · SUBJECT: THE EXTRA WALK - A later group walk that opens only on a day whose normal walks are full for that booking. - Its own time, and its own pick-up window, set by the operative. - Its own places: each walker taking part says how many extra subjects they can take. - An extra charge if the operative wants one — an amount or a percentage — or none at all. - Off until an operative switches it on.

What the client sees

On the booking calendar, the full day stops saying FULL. It turns amber and says EXTRA. A short notice at the top explains, in the operative's own words, that the normal walks are full that day and there is an extra walk with a later pick-up — between 14:00 and 15:00, say.

The price is shown before anything is booked, and it is the whole price: the walk's price on that date, including any price change the operative has already set, plus the extra charge. On a £16 walk with a £2 charge that is £18, written out as £16.00 + £2.00 so that nobody has to wonder. The confirmation email says it again, and the client's own list of bookings keeps a line explaining why that walk is later than usual.

When the extra places are gone, the day says FULL like any other. The asset adds room. It does not pretend the room is endless.

What the operative sees

The request arrives in Requests wearing an "Extra walk" badge. Confirming it works exactly as it always has.

In the walker's Daybook, the subjects booked on the extra walk sit in a group of their own, at the walk's own time, and where a walk number would be there is an E. A walker who finds room on one of their own walks that day can tap the E to move a subject into Walk 1, Walk 2 and so on; tapping on brings it back to the extra walk. Nothing is moved anywhere on its own.

On the invoice, each extra-walk line wears the same badge and shows its pick-up and its price beside the charge — on the operative's copy, the client's copy, the PDF and the email. The one Tuesday that cost £2 more explains itself, which saves a telephone call nobody enjoys.

The arithmetic

The extra places are counted day by day: the extra subjects each walker can take, added up for the walkers working that day. Three walkers taking four extra subjects each make twelve more places on a full day. If one of them is off, eight. A booking takes the places its subjects need, usually one each.

The Agency notes that this is the first asset in some time to arrive with arithmetic a field agent could do in their head. It was checked anyway.

Switching it on

Policies, then Dog Walking, then Extra Walk (Overflow) Policy. On the left: the walk's own time, the pick-up window the client is told, the walk it is booked as, the extra charge, the walkers taking part and how many extra subjects each, and the words the client reads. On the right: how it works in the operative's own numbers, and a preview of what the client will see — before anything is switched on.

Findings

THE AGENCY'S FINDINGS
Off by default. Nothing changes until an operative switches it on.
Opens only when the normal walks are full for that booking.
The client sees EXTRA, the later pick-up and the whole price before booking.
The walker sees the extra walk as its own group, and an E moves to a walk when there is room.
Every invoice line says why the price is different.

The subjects have not been consulted. Early surveillance suggests that a walk at two o'clock is, from their point of view, simply a walk, and therefore excellent.

Continue surveillance.

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