Why use a registered pet sitter?
Your pet will be much happier either staying in its own home with a live in pet sitter or in a pet sitter's home with a family environment where he will recieve lots of tender loving care and attention. Your pet sitter will follow your feeding & excercise instructions allowing your pet to follow the routine they are used to at home. When boarding in the sitter's home dogs usually have access to a secure garden. If you are using a pet sitter to come to your home to pet sit or for dog walking purposes be sure to ask to see their CRB check certificate if they will be holding a set of your keys. If you are using a home dog or cat boarder - be sure that they are licenced by their local authority.
Use our post code search to find a pet sitter close to where you live.
Read the members profile and services offered to assess if they can help you.
Check out the pet sitters scoring and feedback from previous clients, then give the pet sitter a call to talk to them about your pet care requirements.
After talking with a sitter if you feel you would like to meet them with your pet, arrange a visit either to their home or if you are using a live in pet sitter or dog walker invite them to yours, if home boarding look around their home and ask questions - where will my dog sleep? will someone be here most of the time? will he be mixed with any other dogs or cats? are there young children in the house? will he recieve two walks a day? check the garden for security.
If all seems well, next your pet sitter should ask you to fill in a booking form where you can give all the relevant details about your pet including vet details, emergency contact numbers, return dates and times, medication information, notes about how the sitter should deal with certain behaviour the pet displays (for example you may have a dog that needs to be kept away from other dogs in the park).
When you return from your trip and collect your pet please come back to our website to give feedback about your pet sitter for other potential pet owners to read.
Disclaimer:
NarpsUK is the National Associates of Registered Pet Sitters. NarpsUK provides this site as a service to pet owners and pet sitters, dog walkers and pet boarding providers in the United Kingdom to enable them to make contact and conduct business. The directory and Post Code search and its contents are offered in good faith. Reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the information and NarpsUK does not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions in the details listed. Classified entries by pet sitters do not imply any form of recognition, recommendation or guarantee of the company or the products and services provided. Pet Owners are advised to check any information offered in the profile to their own satisfaction before relying upon it.
Any agreement or contract made between Pet Owners and pet sitters, dog walkers or pet boarding providers is at the both parties own risk and liability. NarpsUK has no liability and will not enter into any negotiation or disputes between either party. Although NarpsUK offers their members a code of practice to work within, it should be noted that compliance to this code of practice is voluntary and not compulsory. It is the Pet Owners responsibility to ensure that they are satisfied with any pet sitter they employ and any business agreement is strictly between the pet owner and the pet sitter.
NarpsUK provides pet sitters with the essential tools to run their own successful pet sitter business. NarpsUK's mission is to lead in the promotion of excellence among professional pet sitters and help them to create and grow successful pet sitting businesses in an ethical manner.
We have a number of sound guidelines for our members to work to within our Code of Practice. We do not claim to be a policing organization over such guidelines and therefore if in they have doubt concerning the information published on the NarpsUK website regarding a particular pet sitter, pet owners should be advised to make sure of the reputation of the pet sitter through their own research. We aim to instill in our members a desire to improve their business offerings to their customers and we provide tools that we feel will enable them to do so. Unfortunately NarpsUK is not an association and therefore have no jurisdiction on how pet sitters run their businesses, we can only offer help, support and advice and hope that they will offer a great service to their customers.
If you are concerned about leaving your pet with a pet sitter, read their ratings and reviews on their profile and ask your pet sitter if you can contact someone who has used them recently for feedback. Always visit their establishment first (especially if you are commissioning a dog daycare or other pet boarding service) and check that the property is secure and that your pet will be happy there, if you don't feel comfortable with the situation then consider searching further on the NarpsUK website until you find a pet boarding business where you feel your pet will be happy.
Our desire is for members to be active and vibrant in their membership and have a similar desire to that of the founders:- 'to continually improve their customers’ (and pets’) experience of the pet sitting and pet boarding industry in the UK'.
For more information on whether to join see our FAQs page, or you can contact us.
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