Jan 23, 2015 | Blog, On the Job Pet Sitting
January 23, 2015 – When you’ve finished checking your vacationer’s outdoors [see our article, Making the Vacation House Check – Outdoors] it’s time to do an indoor house check. If you have animals to attend to, you’ll naturally do...
Jan 22, 2015 | Blog, On the Job Pet Sitting
While you’re visiting the animals over the course of a client’s vacation, you’ll be doing house checks also. Some of these are minor and are part of your valued service…some become time-consuming, and this needs to be brought to the...
Jan 21, 2015 | Blog, On the Job Pet Sitting
January 21, 2015 – Lately the phone has been ringing for pet sits…without the pets! We list house checks for vacationers in our business ads and websites and at this time of year we get a few calls. Insurance companies want someone to look-in on a property...
Jan 20, 2015 | Blog, On the Job Pet Sitting, Tales & Talk About Pet Sitting
January 20, 2015 – Some of today’s pet sits didn’t go as planned, which sometimes happens. Quite often we have a cancellation or a last minute addition that has us tweaking our schedule. But on occasion we truly step into an alternate reality. If...
Jan 16, 2015 | Blog, On the Job Pet Sitting
January 16, 2015 – So…you’ve been asked to do a vacation pet sit for your client’s dog or cat for a week, and it’s time for the first visit. What can you expect? To start…the animals will know something is off and that itself sets a...
Jan 15, 2015 | Blog, On the Job Pet Sitting
Today we’ll talk about your first dog sitting visit. Even though we lived with dogs of our own all our lives and looked after friends’ and family’s animals…that first visit into a stranger’s home felt…well…strange. So...