What Does a Pet Sitting Business Entail?
A home based Pet sitting service could be for you. A pet sitting service and its associated dog walking business is fuelled by the busy life style without the family and friend support of yester year. For that reason it is more likely to be found in, or near major cities.
There are various organisations that can help you, providing guidance, forms and the important insurance. But more importantly can you live the pet sitting life?
Life as a pet sitter is a great job, for others it would be totally inappropriate. A great pet sitter requires to adore animals, every animals. It is not just a need, it ought to be a natural love. Whether it is a rabbit, fish or one that some people may fear. Common pet issues for potential pet sitters are scorpions, spiders, lizards, snakes and reptiles. In a larger company, they may be able to handle this, but typically pet sitting is a small business with only two or three people, so you will need to deal with these animals as a pet sitter. Fortuitously these animals require minimal care, but as a pet sitter you cannot avoid feeding and watering them. Sometimes the owner may need the pet sitter to feed small live animals to the pet. In my experience other animals that cause potential issues for pet sitting include rats, “I don’t like the scaly tail”, especially as the rats and owners like the frequent fussing and handling of the pet.
The requirement for pet sitters is in general normally during the major holidays of Christmas, Thanksgiving and summer holidays. There is also a demand for pet sitting at weekends year round the year. Because of this seasonality, pet sitting regularly includes dog walking which is something that is needed all year.
Dog walking in a superior pet sitting company will limit the maximum number of dogs to four or less. Superior companies such as London dog walking will give you T-shirts, sweaters and rain protection. This is of common benefit, as the free clothes are free marketing, dog walking is one of the best adverts for their pet sitting business. You will not however be allowed to have these on view when pet sitting, as it will let the world know that the owners are away on holiday. Though one of the advantages of pet sitting with someone entering and exiting and doing other things such as emptying the mail box, reduces the probability of burglary.
Pet sitting often requires the pet sitter to do other odd jobs around the house. A pet sitter will often tend the garden and indoor plants. Pet sitters habitually look after cats, who due to their territorial origins, rarely like being separated from their home. Cat lovers hate parting from their loved animals, so businesses such as London cat sitting will place photos and comments on their web site for the pet owners.
Good companies such as London pet sitting and clients request that a pet sitter be police checked as they are habitually visiting homes alone.
So still interested having read the above, the up front costs are not huge, by most business standards. A web site, some advertising and probably the largest cost of insurance.
So pet sitting is a wonderful home based business for those whom it fits, try it!