We’ll come along to meet you at home to find out all about your dog’s home life routine including exercising, feeding, likes, dislikes and any medication requirements.
Next we’ll book you in with the dog sitting host family who can best meet your dog’s individual needs. If your holiday is 7 days or more, we’ll also arrange a mini ‘getting to know you’ sleepover to ensure everyone’s going to get along famously before you go away.
We provide the complete dog sitting service including collecting and delivering of your dog. We even send you photographs, a ‘rest easy update’ and a postcard, all as part of the service.
We believe in providing individual care for your dog, so they have the very best experience of dog sitting. Our hosts are dog sitters who are committed to maintaining your dog’s home life and routines, as well as accommodating their likes and dislikes. Choose the best!
We want you to enjoy complete peace of mind, knowing your dog is well cared for by your friendly, loving Barking Mad dog sitter. That’s why we always meet our customers in person from the very start, and work with you to choose the right sitter for your dog.
It’s really important to get to know you and your dog, especially in the beginning. After you contact Barking Mad dog sitting, we’ll come to you for an initial registration meeting, which usually takes about an hour.
We want to find out about feeding and exercising routines, likes and dislikes and any other individual needs, so that we can match your dog or dogs with exactly the right sitter family.
No two dogs are ever the same so please don’t worry. We love dogs of all shapes, sizes and ages, pedigree, Heinz 57 or rescue. They can sleep in the bedroom, pull on the lead, or even hide your favourite socks - so long as they’re friendly we’d love to meet them!
Selecting the right home from home 'host' dog sitter is very important. We understand that you will want to know exactly where your dog is going, so during our time together you will see all of our dog-loving families, what experience they have and what their homes and gardens are like.
All of our hosting dog sitters are carefully inspected by us each time we deliver or collect a dog, and they are guaranteed to meet our extremely high pet sitting standards. We’ve invested a great deal in our network of experienced, devoted dog sitting service providers. Rest assured we will meet your high dog care standards.
We also think it’s important that our dog sitters are at home during the day to ensure care is always provided for your dog, especially where puppies, dogs on regular medication and senior citizens are concerned.
And, if your dog is extremely sociable and you’d like them to have some company during their stay, we can arrange dog boarding with a family who have a resident dog of their own.
We provide:
We provide a complete dog sitting service including door-to-door chauffeur driven transportation for your dog, to and from our host sitter’s house. This is a real bonus for busy customers preparing and returning from time away. The main benefit however is for your dog. Being collected from home is far less stressful and overcomes any anxiety which could be caused when being left behind by you.
Personal Meet and Greet
Right at the start, we will come to meet you at home for an initial consultation to get to know you and find out all about your dog, down to the very last detail.
Then, we will go through our dog sitting host families with you and carefully help you select the most appropriate host to meet your dog’s individual needs.
Holiday Doggy Bag
Before you go on holiday, we will provide you with our exclusive ‘Holiday Doggy Bag’, which you can pack with food, bowls, blankets and toys – anything which will help your dog settle in comfortably with their own holiday carer.
Mini sleepover
If you will be going away for 7 days or more (or a shorter stay at our discretion) we will arrange a trial mini-sleepover with your mutually selected dog sitter host, to allow your dog to get used to their home-from-home. This provides both you and your dog with additional peace of mind, ensuring a successful relationship has already started to blossom, before you leave them for a longer time.
Bespoke Dog Care Service
We provide your dog sitter with your dog’s full information, detailing all the details we gather from you about your dog. This enables us to provide a tailor-made experience for your dog.
Quality Dog Transportation
Our dog sitting service includes arranging to collect your dog from you and delivering your dog back to you when you return. Many dogs can become anxious on being taken by their owners to their dog sitter and then watching their family walk away. Even the sight of a suitcase being packed, can alert some dogs to imminent upheaval and may cause stress. By collecting your dog from you, he/she will leave their home with everything still in place and as they know it.
Photo updates
Once your furry friend has arrived with their dog sitting family, we will send you a photo of him or her, to show you how well they’re settling in. And the next day you’ll receive a ‘Rest Easy’ update, giving you that little extra reassurance that your companion is safe and sound and well.
One-to-one care
During your dog’s stay, as your dog sitter, we ensure our hosts dedicate the majority of their time to caring for your dog. All of our hosts are at home in the day and so can provide constant care and attention. They will maintain a schedule for your dog which is as close as possible to the routine they normally enjoy at home. Exercise regimes, feeding, all their likes and dislikes and any medical requirements will be catered for, just as they are by you.
24 hour support
We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to offer our host families any support they may require.
A postcard from your pet
Once you have returned home, we will bring your dog back to you at a time that suits. They will arrive back and be delighted to find everything in a state of normality, which will ease their return to usual everyday life at home. And your furry friend will even bring you a welcome home postcard for you from their host family, letting you know everything they’ve been up to.
Read about everything that’s included in our dog sitting package, including updates, schedules, holiday doggie bags and more.
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