What to ask before hiring a pet sitter in Bangalore

Who is coming, and have you met them?

You should know the person who will hold your keys. Wiggie introduces background-verified sitters, and you can meet before you confirm a sitting visit or an overnight stay. Ask who covers the booking if they fall ill, and how you will be told.

If a second person might come, you should meet them too, or agree that they will not.

Access, societies and neighbours

How will they get in? What will security be told? Where do they park? Is there a quiet hour? In many Whitefield or HSR Layout buildings these details decide whether the first visit is calm or chaotic. Walk the route from the gate to the door together once.

For overnight sitting, confirm that the building allows it. Our note on overnight sitting in an apartment covers this in more depth.

The work itself

How many visits a day, how long each one lasts, and what happens on each: walk, feed, medicine, litter, play, plants. Ask them to repeat your routine back. If your dog must stay on a lead in the lane, or your cat must not go on the balcony, hear them say it.

Ask how they handle a scared pet, a missed meal, or a situation that might need a veterinarian. You want a call to you, not a guess.

Updates, photos and money

Agree when you will hear from them, and on which app. Photo updates on request are part of how Wiggie works; say what you would like to see. We share a quote before you confirm, and we do not add silent extras later. Changes and cancellations are described in our cancellation note.

A short list you can copy

• Who exactly will visit, and what if they cannot?
• How do keys and society entry work?
• What will each visit include, and how long will it last?
• When will I get an update?
• What happens if my pet seems unwell?
• What is the rate, and what is not included?

When you have dates in mind, write to Wiggie with your neighbourhood. We cover all localities across Bangalore, and we will introduce someone you can actually meet.

A trial visit, if the dates allow

If you can, book a single weekday visit before a long trip. You will see how they handle the lift, the lead, and the goodbye. Your pet will have met them once already. A trial is not always possible, but when it is, it answers questions no list can.

After the trial, write down anything you would change: a different walk time, a clearer medicine step, a note about a noisy neighbour. Then confirm the longer booking, or tell us it is not a fit. You are allowed to say no. Hiring carefully is the whole point of the questions.

Ask, too, how they will lock the door, what they will do with wet leads, and whether they are comfortable giving the exact medicine you have left. These are small, practical questions, and a clear answer is more useful than a general reassurance that they “love animals.”

If your pet has a history of slipping out of a door, or of eating something they should not, say that unprompted. A sitter can only be careful about the risks they have been told. The best questions are the ones that make those risks visible before the first visit, not after a fright.

Write the answers in the same note as the routine, so they live in one place. A good sitting brief is a short document you can send the night before, not a conversation you have to reconstruct from a chat thread when you are already on the way to the airport.

If this is the kind of care you need in Bangalore, send Wiggie an enquiry or email wiggie.petcare@gmail.com, and we will tell you whether we can help, and share a quote for your brief.

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