In the past people used to call a relative or a friend in order to take care of their dogs while they were out from their home for any reason. However, thanks to digitalization, we are able now to book pet care from our sofa with a mobile phone or a computer, making it way easier to find a professional that takes care of our pets properly. In Australia there are multiple online platforms that offer these kind of services, and we will be talking about some of the most important ones in this article.
When we think about dog sitting a variety of things comes to mind, from walking, grooming, training or just safe overnight care. Mad Paws is a website that offers all the services I’ve just mentioned, you just need to search for a sitter and make a booking, and after that you will receive regular photos of your pet while you are out. This platform can be perfect for those people who are not able to spend all they time they would want with their pets due to other responsibilities such as work or kids, since they could for example hire a sitter just for walking their pets occasionally.
Another alternative is Pawshake, a platform that boasts to accept just 15% of its pet sitter applications, choosing to provide and accept the most professional ones and keeping their safety standards high. This website offers the same variety of services as Mad Paws, but there are some differences between them. Mad Paws only works in the Australian market, while Pawshake has been launched in more than 16 markets in addition to Australia. Furthermore, in Pawshake’s website we will not only find pet care services, we will also be able to read their blog, which talks about different interesting topics related with pet care.
All of these programs make use of cloud and online web hosting integrating with Mobile based App platforms and use hosting companies like OnPlatinum to get their message to market in Australia. Any new competitor moving into the market is going to need similar hosting and backbone in order to push their software out to potential dog sitters. For want of a better wording Pawshake and Madpaws have set the standard.
There are other pet care platforms in Australia, but these two are the biggest and most used ones. Both of them work very similarly, the client enters his address and selects a sitter in his nearby area.
In the case of Mad Paws you can choose either pet hosting, which means that your pet will be cared at sitter’s home, or pet sitting, at pet’s home, you will also need to select the day range you will be hiring that service and the kind of pet you own, after that a list of sitters and you will be able to choose one of them.
On the other hand, Pawshake’s website will only ask you for your address and the kind of service you would like to hire, showing the sitter list right after that.
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