Giving your friends or family access to your house while you’re on vacation seems innocent enough, right? Well, it can pose a real problem, if not downright danger, for your pet sitter.
Why does your pet sitter care?
Liability
Our liability insurance covers us for care, custody and control. By allowing a third party access to your home it prohibits our control and custody, even if they aren’t caring for the pets. If the well meaning visitor doesn’t latch your door tight and the wind blows it open and your animals escape and get hit by a car, who is liable? If they use the bathroom and the toilet runs all day and burns out your pump, who is liable? The majority of the time the pet sitter will be blamed.
Purrfect Pet Sitting, LLC accepts no responsibility for security of the premises or loss nor provides any insurances of such if other individuals, other than the homeowners are given access to a Client’s home or if the home is not properly secured during the course of the scheduled employment of Purrfect Pet Sitting, LLC.
Safety
Put yourself in our shoes. Would you be comfortable walking into a strange house to find someone you don’t know inside? If we aren’t told someone else has authority to be in your home our first assumption is they are a burglar.
In the past we’ve blogged about walking in on a party of teenagers where one was authorized to be in the house. You can read about that here.
We understand that handing your keys over to a virtual stranger can be difficult.
We get that you may want someone to come in an ‘check up’ on the pet sitter to make sure they are coming and doing their job.
That is MY job.
My team is required to check in with me immediately after each shift to tell me what visits they’ve completed and/or if there were any issues we should be aware of.
As you can see there really is no need to have someone else in your home other than your professional pet sitter.
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