Somerset West Petsitters NOW "also" Gordon's bay

07/01/2025

22/11/2024

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/fallen-angels-pet-rescue-appeals-for-foster-homes-for-their-animals-amid-fears-of-closure-1c6480e0-a2c3-4152-976b-85404dd23fa8

The rescue centre had already spent R250,000 on the application, and appealing the decision would cost a further R15,000.

21/11/2024

Ever wondered what a certified pet sitter has to take into consideration when attending to your pets? The following list is a brief description of our Client/Sitter/Pet risk training module. In short: Make sure your pet sitters has recent references, an agreement, a back-up buddy and is certified in pet care and pet wellness. Pet sitters Cape Town was Est in 2010. www.petsitterscapetown.co.za

01/09/2024

Pets, it turns out, also have last wishes before they die, but only known by veterinarians who put old and sick animals to sleep. Twitter user Jesse Dietrich asked a vet what was the most difficult part of his job.
The specialist answered without hesitation that it was the hardest for him to see how old or sick animals look for their owners with the eyes of their owners before going to sleep. The fact is that 90 % of owners don't want to be in a room with a dying animal. People leave so that they don't see their pet leave. But they don't realize that it's in these last moments of life that their pet needs them most.
Veterinarians ask the owners to be close to the animals until the very end. "It's inevitable that they die before you. Don't forget that you were the center of their life. Maybe they were just a part of you. But they are also your family. No matter how hard it is, don't leave them.
Don't let them die in a room with a stranger in a place they don't like. It is very painful for veterinarians to see how pets cannot find their owner during the last minutes of their life. They don't understand why the owner left them. After all, they needed their owner’s consolation.
Veterinarians do everything possible to ensure that animals are not so scared, but they are completely strangers to them. Don't be a coward because it's too painful for you. Think about the pet. Endure this pain for the sake of their sake. Be with them until the end."

01/05/2024

WHEN YOUR CAT GOES MISSING.
The first 48 hours is crucial in finding your fur baby
Watch the video on first page of my group.
**Try walk the street you’re in & the one behind and call late at night and early morning (as late as possible, if safe, and take your torch so you can see cats eyes shine). This is when cats are most likely to hear and respond.
**Cats are curious (or could be frightened) and get stuck up trees, in drains, in bushes, in garages, gardens, under wendy houses, on roofs, over walls, and often can’t get back.
Sometimes they’re not even a few 100 meters from you.
**Call daily and especially in the early days of them being lost - its a critical window period.
*Leave food on boundary walls, leave their sandbox outside, or sprinkle used kitty litter as far as you can.
* Speak to all neighbors in your entire street

03/04/2024

Pet Sitters International
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As any pro pet sitter or dog walker will tell you, running a pet-care business is NO JOKE!
Here at PSI, we always say that pet sitting isn’t for the faint of heart🖤—and today we want to stop and thank professional pet sitters and dog walkers for the serious work they do!
⭐For any who have ever wondered, “Is pet sitting (or dog walking) a real job?” The answer is ABSOLUTELY.✔
👉Professional pet sitters are small-business owners—vital contributors to their communities and local economy.
👉They have a business license (where required), pay taxes, are insured, bonded, and trained in pet care and pet first aid.
👉They work year-round to ensure pet parents can have the peace of mind offered by quality, reliable pet care when long work hours or travel keep them from their beloved pets.
⭐Being a professional pet-sitting business owner is more than dog walks and cat cuddles.
👉Ask any professional pet sitter who has missed holidays with their families, extended pet-sitting visits to ensure an ailing pet was comforted or felt the loss of a client’s pet passing.
👉Or better yet, ask one of the hundreds of pet parents who benefit from the services of professional pet sitters.
👉Ask the pet owner who was alerted by his professional pet sitter that his dog’s behavior was unusual and recommended an emergency vet visit—saving the dog from dying from canine bloat.
👉Ask the pet parent who was able to call her pet sitter at 2 a.m. when she learns that her mother—on the other side of the country—has been admitted to the hospital in critical condition and is able to secure pet care as she rushes to the airport.
👉Ask the family whose professional pet sitter has graciously agreed to sit with them as their 15-year-old cat with late-stage chronic renal failure has to be euthanized.
Spend a day with a pro pet sitter or dog walker and you’ll know what those of us at PSI know for sure:
❤️ Pet Sitting is no Joke!
❤️ Its a career, a lifestyle, a passion.