Pet Sitting for Profit
Chapter One
The Concept of Pet Sitting
It was a proud moment in July 1997 when Random House released a revised
edition of their dictionary that contained the phrase pet sitter. You can imagine
my surprise in learning that after thirteen years of being in this career, I found
it was not even mentioned in any of the English dictionaries! No wonder people
hadn't been familiar with pet sitters; officially, we didn't exist!
Thanks to a letter-writing campaign conducted by Pet Sitters
International, that changed when Random House added and defined pet sitter:
Pet sitter-one who cares for the pets of another, usually in the pet's home
environment.
The key words in this definition are "in the pet's home environment." To
me, it is this unique concept that has played a major role in the popularity of
our services. We go to the pet-allowing him to sta ... read full excerpt from Pet Sitting for Profit ebook