Field Notes for Pet Pros

When dog’s lunge and cats hiss, but nothing happens? Do you treat that as safety data or just another day in pet sitting? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bethpasek1.substack.com/subscribe

The Visit You’re Allowed to Walk Away From Your Part of the Deal Worker responsibilities — including the right to stop Like what you are listening too? Be sure to subscribe to not miss an episode. Full training packet is available at: Field Notes For Pet Pros This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bethpasek1.substack.co...

If you run a pet sitting or dog walking company, you already know the challenge. Safety training takes time. Writing policies takes time. Ever fed a safety policy into ChatGPT and gotten back a 20-page manual that sounds professional… but your team would never actually follow? That pressure is exactly why many owners are experimenting with AI tools and large language models to generate safety prog...

What is a workplace in pet sitting? If you have employees you need to understand this key component of Safety Culture This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bethpasek1.substack.com/subscribe

Field Check: 8 quick yes/no questions before you read. Your responses help shape future Field Notes on safety governance. When you go back and read my earliest Field Notes, you may notice something. There is a small thread running through them. At first it looks like nothing more than a loose piece of string, the kind that appears in quiet reflections about presence, boundaries, or the small decis...

Before You Touch The Door Why safety starts before you step inside. Module 1 available at Field Notes For Pet Pros Module 1 covers Safety Culture: what it means, why it matters, and how to actually build it into your daily operations — not just hang a policy on the wall and forget it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vi...

It has taken me longer than I expected to push this safety policy manual template to where it needs to be. Weeks, not days. Three snowstorms slowed it down. Early mornings with frozen keyholes and wind cutting sideways across driveways. Visits rescheduled. Routes adjusted. Decisions made in real time. And in between those visits, I kept reading the same kind of post from other pet sitters: Do I go...

Ask a hundred seasoned pet sitters— the really good ones —what makes them successful, and most won’t cite certifications or technique. They’ll just shrug and say, “I’m just a dog person.” “Cats like me.” “I don’t know… they trust me.” Clients might call them dog whisperers or cat whisperers. Colleagues admire their calm energy. But nobody can quite explain why some sitters seem to float through te...