Do any of you charge MORE for teacup/pint sized pooches?
I can see a future problem with one sector of clients, and wanted some objective advice.
One of my current clients has two teeny, tiny Pomeranians (like less than 10lbs). They are the smallest of my boarders; the next biggest is probably 12ish lbs. However, most of my boarders are medium to large dogs (mostly in the 40-50lb range, but with a few 20 pounders). I'm open to boarding all sizes, and have done a few 60+lb dogs too. I'm not comfortable double booking a teacup sized doing with anything much bigger than 20lbs, but since much of my clientle is bigger than that, I loose money booking a teacup because it severely limits my chances of double booking.
I think there are two sides to the issue: 1) I don't have many teacups, therefore I need to charge them more to recoup some of my loses because I can't double book. 2) I don't have many teacups, but I don't need to charge them more because my percentage of teacup bookings is relatively low. So, yes, I'm losing revenue on them, but I'm not losing very much, very often.
Make sense? Any thoughts?