I am proud to finally present Introductory Animal Safety.
This document is a labor of love, created over the past 8
months originally as a resource to help keep pet sitters safe.
You may remember my post in February, The Complicated Contracts of Dog Walkers, where I said I wanted to create training resources
for new pet sitters to help them stay safe on the job.
Two excellent pet sitters, Chris Wooten of One of a Kind K9
and Kim Fields at Everything and the Dog generously gave of their time to make
sure this document would be helpful to new pet sitters in their field.
I would also like to thank Lili Chin, Dr. Karen Overall, and
Elsevier Publishing for making the animal behavior images in the document
available for non-profit use.
Since I could not find any similar documents available
through the two major pet sitting organizations I will also be sending this
handout along to them in the hopes they can use it for their members.
Since this safety information is
helpful for all pet lovers I will present it here too. It will be split into at least 3 posts. This first
section focuses on how to avoid catching animal diseases:
