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Benefits of Keeping Your Pets at Home While You’re Away

If you have pets and are heading out of town, you may want to consider leaving your pets in their own comfortable environment instead of boarding them.

If you have pets and are heading out of town, you may want to consider leaving your pets in their own comfortable environment instead of boarding them.  Keeping them at home helps reduce their stress and anxiety.  

Having many pets boarded at the same location increases the chance of exposing your pet to disease, illness and risk of injury. With a pet sitting service, your pet can keep the same routine, diet and exercise they are accustomed to and a pet sitter can attend to special needs such as medication.

Your pets will also benefit from lots of personalized and caring attention. Many pet sitters will provide a daily report on how your pets are doing as well as take care of extra things like watering your plants, turning on your light, and getting your mail. Your house will looked lived in which is a good crime deterrent.

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By conveniently leaving your pets at home, you can look forward to the ease of planning and being greeted by your cherished four-leggers when you get home.  So whether you are traveling, working long hours, need to tend to personal commitments, or just going out for happy hour, you can have peace of mind knowing your beloved pet is in good hands.

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