Online Certification
for Professional
Pet Sitters and Dog Walkers
CPS-DW Certification
• Become a certified professional pet sitter
• Start and grow your business
• Self-paced online certification
• Resources for hiring and training your team
Certified Pet Expert
Three Simple Steps To Get Certified
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The Course
Enroll for instant access to proven pet care training that teaches everything a professional dog walker or pet sitter needs to know to offer safe, reliable pet care.
Finish Lessons & Quizzes
Easy-to-follow video lessons designed to help you (or your staff members) learn and retain the most critical information.
Enjoy a Career You Love
The best clients expect their sitter to be trained. Grow your company by becoming certified and enjoy a career you love!
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Getting training and certification is the best step you can take in becoming a professional. Gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence your clients expect.
Start and Grow your Pet Sitting and Dog Walking Business
Enroll in our online certification for pet sitters to learn the real-world details of how to offer safe, reliable pet care in the client’s home.
Our course will teach you the hundreds of policies and procedures every professional pet sitter and dog walker needs to know to keep themselves and the pets in their care safe. The resources and training offered here were developed to work within every pet sitting and dog walking company to help you grow the company you have always dreamed of.
Made For Pros
For professional pet sitters and dog walkers
For in-the-client's home style pet care
Perfect for Training Staff
Train your entire team with a single subscription
Set standards and expectations across all staff
Be a Certified Professional
Pass quizzes to earn your Pet Sitting Certificate
Get better clients by continuing your education
Made For Pros
For professional pet sitters and dog walkers
For in-the-client's home style pet care
Perfect for Training Staff
Train your entire team with a single subscription
Set standards and expectations across all staff
Be a Certified Professional
Pass quizzes to earn your Pet Sitting Certificate
Get better clients by continuing your education
Don't just wing it. Start off on the right paw
Experienced sitters know anything can happen at a visit. Be prepared by getting training.
Avoid common problems and insurance claims
Developed by real pet sitters and dog walkers
Stop developing processes by trial and error
Keep yourself and the pets in your care safe
Covers every detail of how to do the actual job
Based on real world experience
Easily set expectations across your entire team
Comprehensive training that goes beyond the basics
Avoid common problems and insurance claims
Developed by real pet sitters and dog walkers
Stop developing processes by trial and error
Keep yourself and the pets in your care safe
Covers every detail of how to do the actual job
Based on real world experience
Easily set expectations across your entire team
Comprehensive training that goes beyond the basics
FAQ
You will earn your pet sitting certificate when you complete all of the lessons and pass all of the quizzes with a score of 80% or higher.
When you complete the certification course, your certificate will be available in the “Member’s Area” under “My Certificates”
You will learn every detail of how to do the actual job of professional pet sitting and dog walking.
This is the perfect training course for:
- Pet sitting and dog walking business owners
- Individuals who want to get a job at an established pet sitting or dog walking business
- Training new staff members within your own company
- People who want to start pet sitting or dog walking through an app
In this course you will learn:
- A proven method for conducting successful and efficient Meet & Greets
- How to make sure medication is administered correctly – every time
- 8 steps to completing a pet sitting visit like a pro
- 8 critical principles of professional dog walking safety
- How to work with and calm reactive dogs
- How to screen for aggression issues at the Meet & Greet
- How to negotiate and work with pet owners
- How the animal mind works and how animals learn
- How to stop a dog fight
- Everything a pet sitter needs to know about keys and lockboxes
- A full list of recommended equipment for pet sitting and dog walking
- What should be in your first aid kit
- And much more
- View the details of what’s in each lesson
You will also get:
- A proven set of emergency policies & procedures
- An Editable Document Pack with 16 well designed, easily editable forms and visit leave behinds
- A complete workflow for onboarding new clients.
- Two example Meet & Greet checklists
- An editable forty point visit checklist
- An example medication chart
You can find great business advice from many different sources. That’s why we give away our best business advice for free. However, our Certification Course includes the most important information, such as how to do the actual job.
Check out the following articles for tips and proven methods that will help you start and grow your pet care business.
For those who want to start their own business:
- How to start a dog walking and pet sitting business
- Where to get Pet Sitting Business Insurance
- 32 of the best resources for dog walking and pet sitting business owners
For those looking to hire and train a team:
- How much to pay pet sitting staff
- 5 Things to look for when hiring pet sitters
- Employees VS Independent Contractors
We also offer personalized coaching to business owners and those who are looking to start their own business. See our coaching page, here.
No. You can train all of the sitters in your company with a single subscription to the Team Training Page. Click here to see how the custom Team Training Page works, which includes how to inviting staff members via email and progress reports.
When you enroll in the Team Training Plan, you will receive an email that invites you to fill out a form with the information we need to set up your Team Training Page.
Please allow us 48 hours to create your Team Training Page.
Once your Team Training Page is active, you can invite your team members to the training by email or by sending them an invite link.
Detailed reporting is available as part of your Team Training Page.
Team leaders can view each team member’s progress through the course and see staff quiz scores in real time.
CPS-DW stands for Certified Pet Sitter and Dog Walker. Achieving this certification means you completed every lesson in our certification course and passed each of our four quizzes with a score of 80% or higher.
You must also agree to uphold our quality standards.
We recommend using positive reinforcement style training. Our style of pet training is similar to what you will find in Fear Free style courses.
We do NOT allow any kind of training that involves fear or pain.
Our training content was reviewed and approved by a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Professional.
A Masterclass in Professional Pet Sitting
For years I struggled to hire and train the staff within my pet sitting and dog walking company. It seemed almost every day something new would come up that needed to be added to our hiring and training program.
So, over the course of five and a half years, I continued to add each new item to a notepad. Those notes have evolved to become a complete training and certification course for dog walkers and pet sitters that anyone can use to build the foundation of their business.
I’m excited to share everything I’ve learned with you. I wish I had this course when I started because it covers the details you won’t find anywhere else. Now, instead of piecing together all of the information you need and developing your policies by trial and error, you can get everything you need from one place and everything works together as a system, right from the start.
I initially wanted to franchise our pet sitting agency and built policies and procedures that would work in any pet sitting and dog walking business. However, later I decided we could have more impact and help more pets get the best possible care by teaching everyone in the industry how to start and grow their own company. So we made this information available for anyone who wants to learn it.
When you enroll, you get instant access to a complete foundation of knowledge you need to know to become a dog walker or pet sitter, grow your business, hire and train your team, and enjoy a career you love.
Kyle Haubrich
– Course author & Narrator
– Pet sitting business owner
– Dog walker & Pet Sitter
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Use this certification course to train your team or to get started as a professional dog walker or pet sitter.
Try before you buy. Watch 4 free lessons to see if our training style works for you.
Learn how to find and hire great dog walking and pet sitting staff.
This course includes everything you need to start making great hires.
Certification Course for Dog Walkers and Pet Sitters
Use this certification course to train your team or to get started as a professional pet sitter or dog walker.
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Try before you buy. Get 4 free video lessons to see if our training style works for you.
Learn how to find and hire great dog walking and pet sitting staff.
This course includes everything you need to start making great hires.
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The Best Companies Use Our Training Program
Derrick G.
Premier Pet Service
I've been working with pets for over 40 years. I thought I knew most everything, but I was mistaken. This course is amazing.
Violet B.
Bare Paws
If a new hire doesn’t complete training, I can infer that they probably won’t care too much about carefully reading a client’s details, and we really need people who are on top of it. This course helps us weed out bad hires.
Monica S.
Comfy Cabin services
This course helped me know how to set boundaries with clients when I didn’t feel safe walking their dogs.
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