Vacation Tips

  1. Make advance call to Private Pet Sitters!
  2. Please tell the neighbors and gardeners that we are going to be coming each day to care for your pets.
  3. Leave a radio playing on a mild station with soft music. Your pet will enjoy the music and it has a soothing effect.
  4. Leave a light on in the house. A stove light in the kitchen is a good choice. If you wish we can alternate the lighting each evening, so that it will appear that someone is always home.
  5. Please put out an extra water bowl so your pet never runs out of water. We will keep them both full.
  6. If you are going to be gone for more than 2 days please unplug any major appliances.
  7. Leave emergency phone # by the telephone of someone to call in the likely event of an emergency.
  8. Please set out any special medication your pet may need along with instructions for administration.
  9. Make certain that any items that your pets get into are either shut up or put up and out of the way. (Examples waste paper baskets, bathroom trash, clothes hampers.)
  10. Shut all of the doors to any rooms that you do not want your pets to enter. We will not enter a room that has a closed door, and we will not allow your pets to either.