I’m excited and grateful to have Protecting Max featured this week on Dallas Dog Life - a site that highlights pet businesses, charities, and events in Dallas Fort Worth. Here is the article or you can read it at http://dallasdoglife.com/content/view/402/28/
As much as we’d like to spend most of days at home with our pets, sometimes busy schedules, long work hours, and travel mean that our beloved pets are home alone for a majority of the day. Thank goodness for pet-sitters, who come to our homes to spend time with our pets, feed and walk them, and take care of house-sitting duties like taking out the trash, bringing in our mail and watering our plants. While there are many pet-sitting services available throughout the Metroplex, the Mid-Cities is lucky enough to have a company who is not only dedicated to providing you with quality pet care, but also helps other pet-sitting businesses to become better and more successful.
Protecting MaxTM is operated by Danielle Chonody and her husband Todd. Originally “Claws, Paws, and Jaws Professional Pet Sitters,” Protecting Max has been in business since 2003, when Danielle and Todd were first introduced to pet sitting. They saw a need in their community for quality, in-home pet care and decided to turn their love of animals into a family business. Their background in engineering provides the Chonodys with a unique skill set (attention to detail, dedication to customer service, and organizational skills) which they apply to their business every day. Danielle is so committed to quality animal care that she also runs a Pet Sitting Business blog (http://workingwithpets.com) that provides other pet-sitters with information to improve and grow their business.
Protecting MaxTM will care for almost any type of pet, including dogs, cats, hamsters, reptiles and guinea pigs. They are members of Pet Sitters International and National Association of Professional Pet Sitters, and have completed the PSI Pet Sitting Accreditation program and adhere to PSI’s Quality Standards for Excellence in Pet Sitting. (Click here for a PDF file of PSI’s Recommended Quality Standards. It is a great tool to help you evaluate any pet-sitting service.)
Clients of Protecting MaxTM have many service options to choose from. In-home pet sitting is available at two levels. The Standard Visit ($18 for 30 minutes) includes feeding and watering of pets, litter box cleaning, dog walking or playing in the yard, personal attention, and administering medicine. They will also water a limited number of household and outdoor plants and put out trash or collection bins as time allows. (Additional fees may apply for watering a large number of plants, extensive grooming requirements, and administration of certain medicines.) The Platinum Visit ($30 for 1 hour) includes everything in the Basic Visit but extends the personal attention and dog-walking time and includes daily updates via email or phone. Another great perk of this flat rate is that these prices apply to 1-3 pets and the cost for additional pets is only $2 per visit. Usually, pet-sitting prices apply for up to two pets and then extra fees apply. If you don’t need any house-sitting services and only want your dogs walked, you should choose the 30 Minute Dog Walking Visit ($18). This service includes a 30 minute walk for up to two dogs. Each additional dog is only $2 extra per visit. The best thing about this service is that training reinforcement is included. This means that if your dog is already being trained to walk at your side, the dog walker will continue with this training and not allow your dog to pull him or her wherever your dog wishes to go. Anyone who has spent a great deal of time training their dog will appreciate the consistency that this extra level of service provides.
In addition to pet-sitting, Protecting MaxTM provides their clients and potential clients with other resources via their website, ProtectingMax.com. Their blog offers informative articles for pet owners, such as caring for your senior pet, potty training tips, recipes, and more. You can also sign up for the bi-weekly newsletter and receive a Northeast Tarrant County Pet Services Guide and our Pre-Travel Checklist. Protecting Max is also offering a four-hour pet first aid class on Saturday, December 12 from 8am to 12pm at the Tarrant County Chamber of Commerce in Haltom City for the discounted cost of $50 per person for DallasDogLife readers. Please call or email Danielle ( cpjpets@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) to register and mention this article for the discount.
For more information about Protecting MaxTM or to schedule a free in-home interview, please visit the ProtectingMax website or call Danielle at (817) 692-4404. To learn more about the pet-sitting business, you’ll definitely want to subscribe to Danielle’s Working With Pets weekly newsletter, which is full of great information for pet-sitters or any other individual in the pet care industry. Whether you’re a pet owner or a pet industry professional, Danielle Chonody has compiled two informative websites that you’ll want to refer to again and again. Be sure to check them out!
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