How Do Our Midday Pet Sitting and Dog Walking Services Work?
Do you work long hours at the office and can’t make it home to give your pets a midday break? Let us visit to relieve the boredom, give them a potty break, or give them some extra exercise in the middle of the day.
We can provide a midday break for your pets and either play in the yard, or take them for a midday walk to ensure they get their regular exercise.
Your pet sitter will arrive at your home between 11am and 1pm and make either a 30 or 60 minute visit.
The benefits of midday walking or playtime include:
Give Your Dog a Longer, Healthier Life!
In addition to the basic needs of food and shelter a dog also needs social interaction, positive attention from their owner, exercise, and mental stimulation. A simple 30 minute walk each day can fulfill these needs and keep your dog healthy and strong, and improve behavior at home through practicing obedience skills.
Social Skills
Dogs are social animals and enjoy the opportunity to socialize with other dogs. They are also pack animals and intinctually need to be with others – dogs or humans. A daily walking routine provides them with personal attention to satisfy this “pack need”.
Walking is a great way to ensure that puppies learn early to appropriately greet and interact with other dogs and people. These positive interactions build skills and ensure they will not act inappropriately when meeting other dogs as an adult.
Mental Stimulation
Dogs love to investigate their territory and seek out news smells and changes to their environment. Walking provides the mental stimulation that comes from experiencing a wide range of odors and scents. Without this stimulation a dogs enjoyment of life is limited and the dog can become bored and unhappy which leads to destructive behavior.
A daily walk is a great opportunity to reinforce training skills which builds self confidence, reduces stress, and makes sure they remember their training at home.
Exercise
Today it is estimated that 40% of American dogs are overweight. Regular exercise improves blood flow to the heart, and oxygen to the lungs, builds strong muscles, increases joint mobility, increases energy levels and helps to control weight.
Exercising your dog can enhance their quality of life, decrease risk of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart attach and strokes and extend their lifespan and the time that you can enjoy them being part of your family.
Exercise also improves a dogs mood, and decreases the risk of dog depression. It is especially important to keep aging pets agile and fit as they may not be inclined to exercise without your encouragement.
Preventing Behavior Problems
Walking relieves boredom that can cause behavior problem such as detructiveness, separation anxiety, and barking. Walking gives your dog a way to channel their energy in a positive way. Active dogs are typcially happy, well-adjusted dogs.
For good health and wellbeing of your dogs, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. A regular routine of walking and playtime may be exactly what your dogs need to maintain its health for many years.
If you don’t have the time or energy to walk your dog regularly please consider accepting our offer to help.
Setting up midday pet sitting with us is easy.
We give you three ways to schedule your service:
1. Fill out and send us the contact form at the top right of this page and we’ll give you a call to answer your questions and set up your service dates
2. Call us direct at 817 692 4404
3. Visit our reservations page to register using our online scheduling software. Fill out all your information and schedule your own visits and we’ll call you to confirm your reservation
At the time that you schedule your first services we will email you our pet sitting service contract and disaster preparedness forms. You can either:
1. Print these forms out and fill out your information ready for your meet-n-greet consultation visit
2 Fill out online and email back to us
3. Or wait until your pet sitter visits for the meet-n-greet consultation and fill out with them as you tell them about your pets and their routine.
Once you have scheduled your services one of our professional sitters will call you to set up a convenient time for your free meet-n-greet where they will visit your home to meet you and your pets. The sitter that you meet at the meet-n-greet will be the one who comes to your home to care for your pets.
At our meet-n-greet our sitter will ask you:
- Your pets health, routine, and when and what you feed them (of course we also ask when they get their treats!)
- Where they can find pets food, toys, and spare litter,and cleaning supplies
- What other services we can provide during our visits – see below for services included in 30 and 1 hour visits
- To provide the names and contact number of your pets vet and of one or two people who can act as an emergency contact
- To confirm the dates and times of your visits
Your sitter will spend some time getting to know your pets so that your pets are comfortable with them when they arrive for their pet sitting visits. They will also collect and test your house keys (we prefer to collect 2 keys – 1 that your sitter will keep, and 1 that will be kept by the office for any emergency situations).
We do everything we can to ensure that each time you schedule services with us that the same sitter visits your home. This way your pets get comfortable with their sitter and the sitter knows your pets routine and all the little quirks of your pets that make them unique.
Midday pet sitting and dog walking visits start at $18 per visit.
Discounts can be negotiated for regular 5 day per week midday visits.
Protecting Max is operated by Danielle and Todd Chonody. We live in Euless, Texas with our two children Lindsey and Andrew. In our home we have four pets - our two cats, Bouie, and Cozzy and dogs Tanner and Sam. 