| commented answer | Meet and greets, do you think it's a waste of time? the last one I did, I talked to them, before hand. It was a 2 week stay, I did not do a meet and greet before hand. tI worked out great. They gave me a 5 star review. Maybe I'm not in majority, but overall it's worked great for me without doing them! I do appreciate all the feedback though! |
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| commented answer | Meet and greets, do you think it's a waste of time? Of course Rover recommends 3 sitters to meet, it's not their time that is being wasted. I do that too, I make sure the day before that they will be there. I'm not saying no shows, where an appointment is set and the person doesn't show. It' never gets to that point. It's a zillions emails and texts. The appointment is made, and they bail before the appointment. So all of that was a waste of time. I loathe wasting time, that's me I know! I talked to the owners and asked them questions prior to meeting, but I had no meet and greets with the dogs I actually watched, I had zero problems with any of them. I know what to ask and what to look for prior. If you know what the issues are prior that will eliminate many possible issues! |
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| commented answer | what if my dog hurts a dog I'm sitting? I agree with Laura R. it's important to know the habits of your own dog first, Know his/her temperament, his welfare comes first. He does ok, but too many he starts to really get annoyed but he is extremely non aggressive. IF you have an aggressive dog, versus an extremely friendly one, it will be harder to have guest dogs with a naturally aggressive dog! |
| commented question | As a sitter do you provide dog food? The owner provides their own food. Also something to think about that I didn't the first few times I had clients. Ask the owner if the dog eats treats normally. MOST dogs do, and ask if they can bring the appropriate amount of treats in addition to the food. |
| commented question | does Rover have any thoughts on how to handle food for sitter during house sitting jobs, extended stay? I had one where I went to their home for 12 hours, I brought my own food, for myself and my dog who came with me! |
| commented answer | Meet and greets, do you think it's a waste of time? thanks Cheryl for your response, I went through a background check does the person before I have to meet them??? No they don't. If they make a payment prior to the meeting at least there is some personal information about them on record prior to a meeting. It's been way too much time wasting in my opinion with these people. AS far as the payment if that's they way it is across the board then they would all have to do it, and that's it. You have a cat in the equation, I don't. Also I'm not letting a stranger into my home, the most I will do is meet them at a dog park, but there is absolutely no safety in that. A small fee to get rid of the time wasters is a great idea in my opinion. I bet if you... |
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| asked a question | Meet and greets, do you think it's a waste of time? Of all the people that wanted a meet and greet ahead of time, not one followed through with a stay. I think it's an incredible waste of time. All the people I sat for did not request that. Everything worked out great for both parties. I think a way to prevent time wasters is charging the dog owners for the time of the meet and greet even 5 dollars a small amount to weed out the time wasters, they have to put in the paypal account before the meet and greet. What does everyone else think? I'm sitting here with a million emails and texts and then setting up these meetings, and not one has panned out, time is money. We are all here doing this to earn extra money. I'm a writer I can be writing an article, and not wasting my time like this, it's so annoying! I think Rover should charge something, it would be great protection for them too, because you can just meet them and then book the stay outside of Rover, and I bet a lot of people do that, I wouldn't but I bet some do. It's a silly concept to just go and meet someone, and waste all this time, and not be compensated for it. You can't do that at a kennel, if you're meeting someone privately some people talk and waste time, I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have the time for that, and on top of it, not one of these meet and greets even resulted in any of them actually showing up let alone actually booking a stay! |