Living as a dog walker is a great job, for others it would be totally incompatible.

A great benefit of dog walking is being paid for the exercise. Dog walking work out burn about 300 calories an hour depending on your weight and speed. The other benefit of dog walking is that it is a non impact exercise. Dog walking is also very sociable, loads of people stop you and chat about your dogs. This is great opportunity to network and find more business!

A good dog sitter requires to adore dogs, every dogs and animals. It is not just a requirement, it should be a natural love. Most dog walking businesses require their dog walkers to care for other animals. Whether it is a hamster, fish or one that some individuals may fear.  Typical pet issues for potential dog sitters are scorpions, spiders, lizards, snakes and reptiles. In a larger company, they may be able to handle this, but typically dog walking is a small business with only a few people, so you will need to handle these animals as a pet sitter. Happily these animals require minimal care, but as a pet sitter you cannot avoid feeding and watering them. From time to time 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”, particularly as the rats and owners love the frequent fussing and handling of the animal.

The demand for dog sitting is normally centred around the major holidays of Christmas, Thanksgiving and summer holidays. There is also a demand for dog sitters at weekends throughout the year.  The year round business of dog walking  is often required all year. Chiefly for the time starved people living in today’s hectic life, but who want a dog. There is also the one off work for dog walking, following accidents, which stop people e.g. broken legs from skiing

Being a dog walker in a first-rate dog walking company will limit the maximum number of dogs to below four. Good companies such as London dog walking will give you T-shirts, sweaters and rain protection. This is mutual, as the free outfits are branded, dog walking is one of the best adverts for their pet sitting services. You will not however be allowed to wear these when dog sitting, as it will announce that the owners are away on holiday. Though one of the advantages of dog sitting with someone going in and out and doing other things such as emptying the mail box, reduces the probability of break-ins.

Pet sitting often requires the pet sitter to do other jobs around the house. A dog sitter will often look after the garden and house plants. Pet sitters frequentally look after cats, who due to their territorial origins, rarely like leaving their home. Cat lovers dislike the separation from their loved pets, so businesses such as London cat sitting will upload photos and comments on their web site for the pet owners.

Good businesses such as London pet sitting and customers demand that a pet sitter be police checked as they are repeatedly visiting homes alone

So pet sitting is a wonderful job for those whom it fits, give it a try!

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