15 Steps to Stand Out In A Crowded Pet Sitting Market

Pet Sitting Excellence Tips For Success

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Do you love pets and dream of spending your days getting paid to play with the dogs? A pet care business may be the perfect career for you! But starting a pet sitting business is not as easy as printing some cards and offering your services.

Today pet owners demand professional and reliable service. To grow a successful pet sitting business you must offer your clients a consistent, reliable, and caring pet care service that provides for the basic needs of the pets in your care such as food, exercise, and affection.

What is involved in Pet Sitting?

Today the job of a pet sitter may take several different forms:

• Visiting a client’s home once or several times a day to feed, water, walk
  and play with pets while clients are at work or out of town. Often pet
  sitters also perform home services such as mail collection, garbage
  disposal, and plant watering.
• Staying in a client’s home overnight to stay with and care for the clients
  pets.
• Visiting the client’s home to walk or exercise a dog while the client is away
  from the home during the day.

In-home pet sitting is an alternative to boarding or dog daycare and offers the
benefit of keeping pets in a familiar environment and maintaining their regular routine. This means that pets are less stressed and avoid coming in contact with other animals from which they can pick up a disease. Pet sitting also offers more convenience to pet owners, as they do not have to drop and pick up pets from a boarding or daycare facility.

A Superior Pet Sitting Service

A superior pet sitting service goes far beyond just providing excellent pet care. A business that creates pet sitting excellence also excels at exceeding the pet
owners’ needs and expectations by creating an exceptional pet sitting experience.

Pet owners want to hire a pet sitter who will give quality, caring, and consistent care for their pets while they are vacationing or at work, but just as importantly pet owners are also looking for…