Wag Wagon Pet Services Celebrates Professional Pet Sitters Week

March 5, 2012 - PRLog -- Professional Pet Sitters Week was introduced by Pet Sitters International (PSI) in 1995. PSI is the world’s largest educational association for professional pet sitters.  This international week of recognition seeks to educate pet owners about the advantages of in-home pet care, as well as to encourage the public to explore professional pet sitting as a viable and rewarding career opportunity.

There are now more households with dogs (43 million) than children (38 million); and the need for pet-care services is at an all-time high.  

Since 1994 PSI’s membership has grown to nearly 7,000 independent professional pet-sitting businesses that service more than 740,000 pet-owning households each year.

“Professional pet sitting has become an important service industry in the past 15 years.  Many professional pet sitters put in long hours, seven days a week, 365 days a year, so they can provide personal in-home care for pets of all kinds,” says Patti Moran, president of PSI.  “The tireless efforts of these small business owners and their staffs to provide optimal care to pets and their owners truly deserve recognition.”

Wag Wagon Pet Services has been a member of PSI since 2011 and offers services to pet owners in Kittery, Kittery Point, Cape Neddick, York and Eliot, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

For pet owners, at-home pet sitting provides a unique alternative to boarding facilities or having to rely on family and neighbors to check in on their pets. Pet sitting goes beyond simply feeding and caring for pets. Professional pet-sitting services often offer dog walking, care of special needs pets, pet transportation services and pooper-scooper services, in addition to basic pet care.

This year, Tammi Searle of Wag Wagon Pet Services plans on making the most of Professional Pet Sitters Week by donating 10% of profits and 100% of all tips for the week to the NHSPCA in Stratham, New Hampshire.

“I am continually striving to provide the best quality service to our pet-owning clients. It’s important to see the industry I love recognized on a global scale,” Searle adds.  
 
Tammi Searle, invites anyone interested in learning more about the advantages of hiring a professional pet sitter to visit her Web site, www.wag-wagon.com .  To learn more about PPSW and how you can participate, visit the PSI Web site, www.petsit.com.
 
(Note to Editors: For more information on Wag Wagon Pet Services please visit www.wag-wagon.com or call (603) 620-1602.  All media requests should be directed to Tammi Searle.  For further information concerning the professional pet-sitting industry, please visit Pet Sitters International at www.petsit.com or contact Beth Stultz, at beth@petsit.com).

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My name is Tammi Searle and I am the Owner of Wag Wagon Pet Services. I provide Professional Pet Sitting and Dog Walking Services in Kittery, Kittery Point, York, Cape Neddick and Eliot, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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