About This Role
This part-time, flexible position involves providing active pet care, including dog walking, playing with and exercising pets, providing enrichment and companionship, caring for cats and other animals, completing drop-in visits, and potentially overnight pet sitting in clients' homes. The role suits a dependable, energetic, animal-loving individual who genuinely enjoys being active with animals.
Responsibilities
- Provide loving, dependable pet care in clients' homes
- Walk and actively exercise dogs according to their individual needs
- Play with and provide enrichment for dogs, cats, and other pets
- Complete scheduled drop-in visits and potentially overnight stays
- Feed pets and provide fresh water according to client instructions
- Administer medications when required and appropriately instructed
- Clean litter boxes, accidents, food/water areas, and other pet-related messes
- Follow each client's care instructions carefully
- Take photos and provide friendly, detailed updates after visits
- Observe pets for changes in behavior, health, appetite, or mobility and promptly report concerns
- Respect clients' homes and leave pet-care areas clean and tidy
- Arrive on time and remain for the entire scheduled visit
- Represent Furry Friends Fitness professionally, compassionately, and reliably
Requirements
- Genuine love and respect for animals
- Active and physically capable of regularly walking dogs and playing with pets
- Reliable personal transportation and a valid driver's license
- Reliable smartphone with access to text, email, photos, and scheduling tools
- Dependable, punctual, and able to follow schedules and detailed instructions
- Comfortable walking dogs outdoors in typical North Carolina weather
- Comfortable caring for animals of different sizes, breeds, energy levels, and temperaments
- Comfortable working independently in clients' homes
- Strong communication and customer-service skills
- Willing and able to take quality pet photos and provide visit updates
- Some availability for mornings, evenings, weekends and/or holidays is highly valuable
Nice to have:
- Overnight availability
- Previous professional pet-care experience
- Experience in veterinary medicine, vet-tech programs, animal rescue, dog training, pet sitting, dog walking, animal care, or similar fields
Benefits
About the Company
Furry Friends Fitness focuses on movement, enrichment, companionship, attentive care, and giving pet parents peace of mind while they're away. The company cares for dogs and cats as well as other pets, including animals such as rabbits, chickens, and ducks, treating every animal as an individual.