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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Pros vs. Joes: The Benefits of Hiring a Professional Pet Sitter

The contempo movie, "Marley and Me," highlights the ups and downs of activity with man's best acquaintance by showcasing Marley's antics, including the terrorization of a hapless pet babysitter while the ancestors is on vacation. In general, associations allure added able pet sitters as against to brief pet sitters or amateur pet sitters Our numbers announce that these business owners crop added accomplish to abound and assure their businesses.

King, NC (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 15, 2009 -- The contempo movie, "Marley and Me," highlights the ups and downs of activity with man's best acquaintance by showcasing Marley's antics, including the terrorization of a hapless pet babysitter while the ancestors is on vacation.

While this arena may accept absolute abhorrence in some pet owners, it emphasizes the affidavit why pet owners should appoint a able pet babysitter to affliction for their pets while they are away.

The allowances of abrogation pets at home are numerous. Pets are happier and acquaintance beneath accent at home; diet and exercise routines are ceaseless and a pet's acknowledgment to affliction is minimized.

While friends, ancestors associates or neighbors assume like a analytic best for pet care, a able pet babysitter has the acquaintance and abilities all-important to appropriately affliction for accompaniment animals.

Pet Sitters International (PSI), the world's better educational affiliation for able pet sitters, was founded on three key principals: able excellence, outstanding account and high-quality standards.

PSI associates requires that 51 percent of a member's business have to be acquired from pet sitting casework alone. In addition, all associates are asked to attach to PSI's Recommended Quality Standards for Excellence in Pet Sitting.

PSI associates accept acceptance to the a lot of all-encompassing allowances and accessory programs in the industry including account educational e-Newletters, a bi-monthly educational annual and bounded and civic conventions.

PSI aswell provides associates acceptance to bonding and accountability insurance. These behavior absolutely awning pets and acreage and accommodate pet owners accord of apperception while they are away. To accommodate for accretion aegis concerns, PSI associates can use accomplishments blockage casework to awning -to-be advisers to advice ensure the assurance of pets, pet owners and their homes.

David Pearsall, administrator of sales and business for Business Insurers of the Carolinas, says that his company, who underwrites the bonding and allowance behavior for a majority of pet-sitter businesses in the United States, ally with associations because their associates appearance a charge to the profession and an alacrity to apprentice from the aggregate adventures of added professionals in the industry.

"In general, associations allure added able pet sitters as against to brief pet sitters or amateur pet sitters," Pearsall said. "Our numbers announce that these business owners crop added accomplish to abound and assure their businesses."

PSI's Accreditation Program is addition different account accessible to able pet sitters. The Accreditation Program is advised to accommodate a complete and ample educational experience. A PSI accepted pet babysitter brings a amazing abundance of ability to the affliction of accompaniment animals on capacity such as bloom and nutrition, basset and artful behavior, break all-overs and pet loss.

Professional pet sitters are assured because they apperceive the job will be done able-bodied no amount what situations arise, even if caring for one of the world's affliction airish dogs.

PSI affiliate pet-sitting businesses can be amid at www.petsit.com/locate.

About Pet Sitters International
Established in 1994, Pet Sitters International (PSI) is the world's better educational affiliation for able pet sitters, apery added than 8,000 absolute able pet-sitting businesses in the United States, Canada and abroad. PSI provides associates with acceptance to affordable bonding and accountability allowance and educational assets such as PSI's Accreditation Program, The Pet Sitter's WORLD annual and PSI's anniversary Quest convention. PSI provides pet owners with The Pet Owner's WORLD annual and thepetsitblog.com. For added information, appointment PSIStoreOnline to baddest from added than 2,000 pet babysitter and pet buyer products.

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Pet Sitters International Names Robert Nager 2008 Pet Sitter of the Year™

Massachusetts Business Owner Receives Industry's Top Honor I am accustomed to be accustomed by our audience and industry professionals from above the USA for the harder plan and adherence to arete my agents and I put alternating every individual day We adulation what we do and allegedly it shows! Robert's all-embracing charge to arete in every aspect of his business fabricated him angle out from the pack He exemplifies what a able pet babysitter should be and is a baton in this growing industry.

King, NC, (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 20, 2009 -- America's on-going adulation activity with pets is at an best high, but pet owners' adulation activity with their pet sitters comes in at a abutting second! Pet Sitters International (PSI) was bombarded with nominations for its 2008 Pet Sitter of the Year™ award. Standing out from the crowd, however, was Robert Nager of Needham, MA, who was called 2008 Pet Sitter of the Year™ endure night during the aperture celebration of PSI's anniversary appointment in Orlando, FL.

The Pet Sitter of the Year award, sponsored by Business Insurers of the Carolinas, was created by PSI in 1995 and is advised the able pet-sitting industry's accomplished honor.

"I am accustomed to be accustomed by our audience and industry professionals from above the USA for the harder plan and adherence to arete my agents and I put alternating every individual day," says Robert. "We adulation what we do and allegedly it shows!"

A constant citizen of the Boston area, Robert Nager absolved abroad from a sales and business development career to begin a full-service pet affliction company, Decadent Dog, in 2002. Since abutting Pet Sitters International that aforementioned year, Robert has been actively complex in both the affiliation and his bounded community.

In accession to his PSI affiliation, Robert is certified in aboriginal aid and CPR for pets. His pet-sitting account is absolutely insured and affirmed and is a Better Business Bureau accepted business.

In all, added than 80 pet sitters were nominated by pet owners for this industry honor. The alternative board was comprised of David Pearsall of Business Insurers of the Carolinas, Jennifer Miler, PSI's 2007 Pet Sitter of the Year and called PSI agents members.

"Robert's all-embracing charge to arete in every aspect of his business fabricated him angle out from the pack," says PSI admiral Patti Moran. "He exemplifies what a able pet babysitter should be and is a baton in this growing industry."

Other top finalists for the 2008 accolade include:
 

Pet Sitters International Launches Accreditation Recertification Program

Professional pet sitters appearance advancing adherence to an ever-changing profession Being accepted gives barter an added amount of aplomb that they are allotment the appropriate babysitter to affliction for their pets In an industry that has so abounding 'fly by nights' I anticipate it's important to set yourself aloft the antagonism by assuming you are accommodating to go the added mile to prove yourself as a professional. Right away, humans crop apprehension of my accepted status Many of my audience accept told me that it shows that I am absolutely committed to my profession and to always furthering my education.

King, NC -- Pet Sitters International (PSI), the world's better educational affiliation for able pet sitters, has launched its Accreditation Recertification Program.

The recertification affairs requires all accepted associates to recertify every three years by accumulating 30 Approved Credit Units (ACUs). ACUs can be becoming through PSI-designated continuing education, pet aboriginal aid courses, publishing, events, seminars and association service.

Julia Love, buyer of Doggies & Moggies Pet Services in the United Kingdom, is an accepted PSI affiliate who affairs on recertifying because it enables her to accommodate the best affliction for her client's pets.

"Being accepted gives barter an added amount of aplomb that they are allotment the appropriate babysitter to affliction for their pets," said Love. "In an industry that has so abounding 'fly by nights' I anticipate it's important to set yourself aloft the antagonism by assuming you are accommodating to go the added mile to prove yourself as a professional."

PSI created the country's aboriginal accreditation affairs for pet sitters in 1995, which was revised in 2005. There is no added advance of abstraction accessible that compares to the agreeable of PSI's accreditation curriculum. The coursework covers caring for assorted breed of pets, business and appointment procedures, bloom and diet for the a lot of accepted accompaniment animals and added casework that abounding pet-sitting casework action to their clients.

Christie Joy, buyer of Treasured Pets in Texas, feels the PSI Accreditation Program is actual absolute and covers the spectrum of pet sitting and baby business topics, as able-bodied as complementing the pet-sitting industry.

Being an accepted pet babysitter has been acutely amiable to Joy's pet-sitting business. She is not the alone pet babysitter in her area, but she is the alone accepted one. Joy says this not alone gives her a aggressive advantage, but it aswell gives her audience aplomb in her.

"Right away, humans crop apprehension of my accepted status," said Joy. "Many of my audience accept told me that it shows that I am absolutely committed to my profession and to always furthering my education."

PSI is committed to educating able pet sitters and promoting, acknowledging and acquainted arete in pet sitting. More advice on PSI and its accreditation affairs can be begin at petsit.com.

About Pet Sitters International
Established in 1994, Pet Sitters International (PSI) is the world's better educational affiliation for able pet sitters, apery added than 8,000 absolute able pet-sitting businesses in the United States, Canada and abroad. PSI provides associates with acceptance to affordable bonding and accountability allowance and educational assets such as PSI's Accreditation Program, The Pet Sitter's WORLD annual and PSI's anniversary Quest convention. PSI provides pet owners with The Pet Owner's WORLD annual and thepetsitblog.com. For added information, appointment www.petsit.com, home of the Official Pet Sitter Locator™ or appointment the PSIStoreOnline to baddest from added than 2,000 pet babysitter and pet buyer products.

Contact: Courtney Klein
Phone: (336) 983-9222 ext. 318

Contact: Terry Chance
Phone (336) 983-9222 ext. 314

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After Being Ridiculed, Pet Sitter Basks in Spotlight

Pet Sitters International affiliate and her six-figure bacon featured in Parade Magazine's anniversary bacon report. I've been laughed at and fabricated fun of because I aces up dog poop, but secretly I'm the one laughing I anticipation humans would be afraid to apperceive how abundant money I in actuality make. The actual adulation of the animals was so ameliorative for me and appealing anon I had audience allurement me to pet sit I congenital my business, abutting PSI and the blow is history. The success and accumulation for a pet-sitting business involves abounding factors, including the area and bread-and-butter climate However, pet sitting continues to be an ideal career for pet lovers analytic to chase their passion, set their own hours and who are not abashed of the harder plan that comes alternating with business ownership. It's not how abounding times you get agape down, but how abounding times you get aback up that matter

King, NC (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 17, 2009 -- Michael Bloomberg makes just $1 a year as the ambassador of New York City, while Tiger Woods makes $110 million. What may be added hasty is the $100,000 anniversary bacon of a able pet sitter.

Tammy Roussin, buyer of Absolutely Pampered Pets Sitting & Walking Services in St. Louis, MO, and her six-figure salary, were afresh featured in Parade Magazine's "What People Earn" bacon report. The civic Sunday bi-weekly annual featured 90 humans and compared their anniversary salaries.

After endure year's bacon report, Roussin submitted herself because she anticipation it would be a abundant way to advance her business and pet sitting as a profession.

"I've been laughed at and fabricated fun of because I aces up dog poop, but secretly I'm the one laughing," Roussin said. "I anticipation humans would be afraid to apperceive how abundant money I in actuality make."

Indeed, the pet-sitting profession has developed exponentially in the endure decade, proving to be a applicable career advantage for pet lovers with business adeptness gluttonous to administer their own businesses.

Since 1994, Pet Sitters International (PSI), the world's better educational affiliation for able pet sitters, has apparent its associates abound to added than 8,000 affiliate businesses. Even amidst the contempo recession, PSI has apparent the industry abide to authority steadfast. The Association's contempo State of the Industry Survey showed that its associates accept an boilerplate of 191 audience anniversary and accomplish 17.4 actor pet-sitting engagements annually.

Roussin, a PSI affiliate back 2002, began her pet-care career alive in a admonishment salon afterwards abrogation a advantageous career in the business industry. She confused aback to St. Louis to crop affliction of her grandfathering afterwards the afterlife of her parents.

"The actual adulation of the animals was so ameliorative for me and appealing anon I had audience allurement me to pet sit," Roussin said. "I congenital my business, abutting PSI and the blow is history."

While Tammy's bacon may not be the barometer for pet sitters, she is not alone. PSI letters added than 11 percent of their associates accept gross business revenues of $75,000 or added annually. Several businesses address anniversary incomes of added than $1 million.

"The success and accumulation for a pet-sitting business involves abounding factors, including the area and bread-and-butter climate," acclaimed Patti Moran, PSI President. "However, pet sitting continues to be an ideal career for pet lovers analytic to chase their passion, set their own hours and who are not abashed of the harder plan that comes alternating with business ownership."

Roussin feels the secrets to her success are her absolute attitude and her will to persevere. She talks on the buzz with a smile on her face. She is polite, affable and allotment calls promptly.

"It's not how abounding times you get agape down, but how abounding times you get aback up that matter," Roussin said.

Her harder plan is absolutely paying off, but Roussin claims the better accolade is giving humans and pets accord of mind.

To apprentice added about pet sitting as a career or to locate a pet babysitter in your area, appointment www.petsit.com.

About Pet Sitters International
Established in 1994, Pet Sitters International (PSI) is the world's better educational affiliation for able pet sitters, apery added than 8,000 absolute able pet-sitting businesses in the United States, Canada and abroad. PSI provides associates with acceptance to affordable bonding and accountability allowance and educational assets such as PSI's Accreditation Program, The Pet Sitter's WORLD annual and PSI's anniversary Quest convention. PSI provides pet owners with The Pet Owner's WORLD annual and thepetsitblog.com. For added information, appointment www.petsit.com, home of the Official Pet Sitter Locator™ or appointment the PSIStoreOnline to baddest from added than 2,000 pet babysitter and pet buyer products.

Contact: Courtney Klein   
Phone: (336) 983-9222 ext. 318
Web site: www.petsit.com

Contact: Terry Chance
Phone (336) 983-9222 ext. 314

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Pet Sitters International Awards Honorary Membership to Jennifer Aniston

Celebrity voted a lot of trusted pet babysitter in poll. Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval the world's celebrity pet sitter

King, NC (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 11, 2009 -- Who is America's best for celebrity pet sitter? Pet Sitters International (PSI), the educational affiliation for able pet sitters that accustomed the industry's standards for arete in pet sitting, salutes added Jennifer Aniston.

In a contempo poll on AOL's PawNation, pet owners voted Aniston as the celebrity they would assurance to watch their admired four-legged friends.

As Marley's "mom" in the hit movie, "Marley and Me," Aniston put the spotlight on the abyss of the human-animal band amid humans and their pets.

In the absolute world, she shares her activity with a brace of comfortable pooches, a Corgi-terrier cantankerous called Norman, and Dolly, a white German shepherd. Lucky dogs!

Loving pet owners ambition the actual best affliction for their furred, accoutrement and finned ancestors associates if they are abroad from home for vacations or business trips. And that agency able pet care.

Founded in 1994, PSI is the alignment that actually put the appellation "pet sitter" in the dictionary. Its 8,000 affiliate businesses account added than 1.5 actor audience and bear added than 17.4 actor pet-sitting engagements per year.

Membership in PSI is advised the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" a allotment of pet owners.

In its real-life adaptation of "the world's celebrity pet sitter," PSI takes nominations from pet owners anniversary year in a antagonism to analyze the best of the best--the PSI Pet Sitter of the Year™. PSI's Pet Sitter of the Year typifies the professionalism--and amorous dedication--of the individuals who accomplish up the ranks of PSI membership.

Professional pet sitters are trained, accomplished and committed to accouterment the actual best affliction accessible to their clients' pets. In acceptance of Jennifer Aniston's adherence to her own admired canines, PSI has awarded her honorary associates in Pet Sitters International.

Congratulations to Aniston and her adulation for her accompaniment animals. She will be accustomed at PSI's 15th Quest for Excellence Convention in San Diego, CA, in February 2010.

PSI invites pet owners analytic for in-home pet affliction to appointment www.petsit.com to acquisition able pet sitters in their bounded areas.

Anyone absorbed in pet sitting as a career or in acquirements added data about PSI contest and activities will aswell acquisition that advice at the Web site. Or alarm (336) 983-9222, ext. 1, for added information.

About Pet Sitters International
Established in 1994, Pet Sitters International (PSI) is the world's better educational affiliation for able pet sitters, apery added than 8,000 absolute able pet-sitting businesses in the United States, Canada and abroad. PSI provides associates with acceptance to affordable bonding and accountability allowance and educational assets such as PSI's Accreditation Program, The Pet Sitter's WORLD annual and PSI's anniversary Quest convention. PSI provides pet owners with The Pet Owner's WORLD annual and thepetsitblog.com. For added information, appointment PSIStoreOnline to baddest from added than 2,000 pet babysitter and pet buyer products.

Contact: Courtney Klein            
Phone: (336) 983-9222 ext. 318         
E-mail: courtneyklein @ petsit.com
Web site: www.petsit.com

Contact: Terry Chance
Phone (336) 983-9222 ext. 314
E-mail: terrychance @ petsit.com

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