How to Care for Challenging Dogs With a Pet Sitting Team! - Susan Aceti - Ep. 17

About this episode

Susan Aceti shares her system for caring for challenging dogs and building a pet sitting team.

For everything you need to go from a solo pet sitter to a team leader, Enroll in my Pawsitive Hiring Course: pawsitivehiringcourse.com Caring for "challenging" dogs can be...challenging! But Susan Aceti from Challenging Dogs Pet Care in Laurel, Maryland has figured out the perfect system to meet the dogs where they're at while keeping her team safe in the process. In this episode, Susan gives us lots of tips on how we can care for challenging dogs in a safer and happier way, and how we can find staff and build a team to do the same! Susan recently launched a course, Building Relationships with Behaviorally Challenged Dogs 1: A Guide for Dog Sitters and Walkers, to teach us how to use her systems in our own businesses! You can save 15% off of Susan's course with code first100 when you enroll! Learn more about Susan and and contact her course, Building Relationships with Behaviorally Challenged Dogs 1: A Guide for Dog Sitters and Walkers, here: https://www.challengingdogs.com/ facebook.com/challengingdogspetcare instagram.com/challengingdogspetcare Follow the Pawsitive Hiring Academy: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583169482484…

People in this episode

Host: Doug Keeling

Guest: Susan Aceti

Topics covered

• pet sitting
• challenging dogs
• team building
• dog care
• pet business

Keywords

• challenging dogs
• pet sitting
• team leader
• dog care tips
• pet business

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Challenging Dogs Pet Care, Pawsitive Hiring Course, Pawsitive Hiring Academy

Products: Building Relationships with Behaviorally Challenged Dogs 1: A Guide for Dog Sitters and Walkers

Places: Laurel, Maryland

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