Working with Ally 4 Pets

What is Ally 4 Pets, LLC?

Ally 4 Pets, LLC is a full-service, in-home, pet care company. The pet care professionals employed by Ally 4 Pets travel to our clients’ homes to perform the pet sitting duties outlined by our customers.

Our clients are located primarily in Annapolis, Arnold, Gambrills, Glen Burnie, Millersville, Odenton, Pasadena, Severn, Hanover, and Severna Park. 

We serve our clients with Love, Honesty, Outstanding Customer Service and Client Education.

Why Join Our Team?

Professional pet care is incredibly rewarding and fulfilling, and every one of our sitters LOVES their job! Ally 4 Pets offers:

 

    • Fuzzy Faces & Unconditional Love!
    • Employee Status
    • Competitive Compensation
    • Flexible Hours
    • Workers Compensation
    • Discounted Pet Sitting
    • Client Referral Bonuses
    • Sitter Referral Bonuses
    • Exercise & Fresh Air
    • Independence

We provide five types of services: (Many can be combined)

 

    1. In-home pet sitting: While clients are away, we visit their home 1-4 times per day to walk, feed and care for their pet/s per their owner’s direction and my standards. We do not provide overnight pet care at this time.
    2. Dog walking: One visit per day, Monday through Friday, to visit and walk dogs while their owners are at work;
    3. Maintenance services: Many clients just don’t have the time to give their animals some regular care. Examples include a bath, brush out, perform nail trims on dogs, cats, small animals or birds. Many of these services can be done during In-home pet sits or as stand alone services.
    4. Pet Taxi Services: Picking up animals for grooming appointments, veterinary appointments, doggie daycare, and any other appointments necessary. These can be done with visits or stand alone services.
    5. Medical Services: Many of our clients have elderly pets that have medical needs ranging from giving simple oral medication, ear cleaning and medications, eye medication administration, anal gland expressions, giving subcutaneous fluids or even injections of various kinds. I am willing to train employees who want to learn these skills.

         

        What is essential to work with Ally 4 Pets?

        You must:

        • Have a great love for all animals  
        • Have a valid driver’s license and access to a reliable, insured vehicle.
        • Have daily access to the Internet and the ability to communicate effectively by returning emails and phone calls promptly.
        • Be able to communicate effectively with our clients as visits are completed.
        • Be familiar with the service area.
        • Commit to at least 3 months. 
        • Be able to provide professional references.
        • Submit a current background check to Ally 4 Pets.
        • Complete Pet First Aid & CPR Certification. (This is completed after you are hired, but before you complete training)
          • This is an online course. The link will be provided to you.
        • You must be able to access our mobile phone application while performing duties. (Time to Pet)

        Positions with Ally 4 Pets: (NOTE: These are W-2 Employee Positions and NOT Independent Contractor Positions)

        • Mid-Day Dog Walkers preferably be available to walk dogs, Monday through Friday between the hours of 11 AM & 3:00 PM. The number of dogs you’ll walk on any given day will vary based upon the clients’ schedules and when they need pet care.  Occasionally we have clients with dog walking needs that fall outside of these times based on their working schedule. We will check with you prior to committing to those walks.
        • Pet Care Specialist: must be available to work at least (2) weekends per month and have some availability for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter and Memorial Day, Labor Day, or New Year’s Day. Pet Care Specialists visit our client’s home multiple times per day, therefore need to be available for AM (6-9), Mid-Day (11-3) EVENING (4-6 PM) or LATE NIGHT (7-10 PM) visits.

         

        Other Services that can be provided by the above positions:

         

        • Maintenance/Taxi Services need to be available to service our client’s needs. Scheduling is more flexible than with the above positions and may be combined with above services. Examples include things like nail trims, baths, transporting pets to vet visits, grooming visits or doggie daycare.

        • Medical Services need to be available to service our clients. Scheduling is more flexible than with the above positions.  Many medical services are provided with pet sitting and overnight care, but there are other services provided with baths or by themselves. Examples include giving injections, fluids under the skin, medications by mouth, ear or eye ointments.

         

        Summary

        Sitters contracted by Ally 4 Pets can either be classified as a Mid-Day Dog Walker or a Pet Care Specialist. As we grow, these positions can be combined to help increase your hours as your availability permits. This is based on your availability and what services you’re interested in offering to our Ally 4 Pet clients’. Maintenance/Taxi Services can be stand-alone services or combined with any pet sitting service. Medical Services can be a part of some Pet Sitting assignments and can be something like giving medications on a regular schedule but can also be a part of baths or individual services. 

        Each Pet Care Specialist/Walker is assigned to specific clients based on where you live. To start, we will plug you in where we can until you build up your book of business in your area.

        We keep our sitters’ assignments as close to their “home base” as possible to increase their profits. The usual travel distance is 20-30 miles based on where you service… unless you have agreed to travel further. 

        Mid-Day Walkers build their regular schedules by either inheriting the walks of another sitter who is no longer able to offer their services to Ally 4 Pets, or by adding on new clients that sign-up for service. Our regular midday clients retain the same “walker” until their relationship with Ally 4 Pets ends or until the walker is no longer contracted by Ally 4 Pets. Our walkers visit their same clients on their route Monday through Friday based on the clients booking schedule. 

        Pet Care Specialists are chosen as the “primary sitter” for a client by the service areas that they cover and by their availability submitted to the Ally 4 Pets database. After a sitter is assigned as the “primary sitter,” Ally 4 Pets will make every attempt to book that same sitter for the client for subsequent bookings. If the primary sitter is unavailable, then Ally 4 Pets will assign a secondary sitter to the assignment using the same protocol as explained above. A client may choose to meet with any back-up/secondary sitter, or they may choose to have a phone conversation or they may just ask that Ally 4 Pets send the sitter without introduction. 

         

        While Ally 4 Pets sitters do their best to cover in cases of emergencies, this is not a job where “calling in sick” is tolerated. The pets in your care depend on you to complete your assignments and (1) no-call; no-show is cause for immediate termination of assignments.

        Long-Term Relationship

        Ally 4 Pets is interested in working with employees who want to build a long-term relationship with our company and its clients. It’s not a good position for those trying to find interim work while in-between jobs or trying to “figure-out” what their next step is. Our clients come to trust their assigned pet care provider and appreciate it when they’re able to grow a trusted relationship with that person.  

        Compensation

        • Your compensation is 50% of every visit you make. Visits average $30 per visit. So… when Ally 4 Pets makes more money so do you! 
        • Payroll is submitted on the 1st and 16th of each month. If the 1st or the 16th falls on a weekend or holiday, payroll is called in on the next business day. The direct deposit will hit your account 2-3 days after it is submitted. Your bank is in charge of when the direct deposit hits your account within that time frame.