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We are actually doing alright in retirement as far as finances go. A few hundred dollars more a month would make it more than alright. I would only take on activities that I enjoy. What I would love to do would be making some extra money working with animals.
I was thinking animal sitting, in my home or theirs. I would ike to provide a service where I can keep dogs[mostly] happy and healthy while apart from their people. We sometimes need to find someone to watch our animals for a few days when we have somewhere we need [or want] to go somewhere and having someone who will not only make sure our animals are fed, walked, but also given some loving makes all the difference to us. We would not charge a lot, because we would not want to put financial pressure on the owners, and we love animals so much anyway.
Has anyone does this, and how should I get started? If possible, I would like to do this without a bunch of licensing and all of that, just simple person to person service. Any ideas?
Word of mouth and maybe a social media page in your area. My vet's tech does both in-home and outta-home animal care and has her business card at the vet office. She said all of her clients have come word of mouth.
Do you have a yard that is totally fenced in ?....that would be a big plus. The Wife and I used a website called "Rover.com" when we took our pup with us to Cape Cod. The lady had a fenced in yard, and about 5 other dogs staying with her, it made us a little uncomfortable to have so many dogs, especially one bigger one that would not leave our little guy alone at first. We have decided to never do that again, and her house absolutely wreaked of urine . We then went to a highly recommended boarding place, thier only downfall, the last person leaves at 6pm, and they do not reopen till 6am, so that is 12 hours of no walk, or human contact....best case scenario, your pup is last out for walk, and first in the AM. We would find it to be a perfect set up if we could find a home that would take in maybe two pups (including ours), fenced in yard, and a proof of vaccination to protect everyone....the lady at Rover.com never asked if he was vaccinated.....and clean, the place needs to be clean.
I have a close retired friend who pet sits. For a long time she would take the well behaved dogs into her home with her dog, and she would sit the others at their home with multiple visits per day. For the multiple trip per day dogs, she would only accept those within about 5 or 6 miles of her home, otherwise the driving becomes too much. She would also stay full time in their home if it worked out with her schedule and other commitments. She has recently stopped accepting dogs into her home, except those that she has previously vetted, due to an attack on her own dog by one of her customers' dogs. So now she just does the visiting or staying in their home type of work. She does very well financially with her little business, but her ability to travel, and go places even for a few hours, is severely impacted by her commitments.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned that you need to check with the city or county on whether you would need any kind of license or permit to care for them on your property.
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. We then went to a highly recommended boarding place, thier only downfall, the last person leaves at 6pm, and they do not reopen till 6am, so that is 12 hours of no walk, or human contact....best case scenario, your pup is last out for walk, and first in the AM. We would find it to be a perfect set up if we could find a home that would take in maybe two pups (including ours), fenced in yard, and a proof of vaccination to protect everyone....the lady at Rover.com never asked if he was vaccinated.....and clean, the place needs to be clean.
