I don't expect to be tipped, but I'm certainly grateful when I have been. To date, most of my clients tip nothing. However, I had a high anxiety dog for whom the owner felt I went above and beyond... so much so that she left a bouquet of tulips, a card, and $100 on my doorstep the day AFTER she picked him up. The tulips and the card meant so much. Similarly, I had a diabetic get very ill while at my house, and the owners were so grateful for how I cared for him, they gave me $100 too.

It seems the trend is really the above and beyond stuff that leads to me getting tips. Even before I was sitting through Rover, my clients would tip me if I stayed longer than expected to make sure their cats ate, went back to make sure a dog who was limping on a walk was better a couple hours later, and those other types of things we just "do" because, frankly, it's the right thing to do. But doing the right thing blows people's minds these days!