Pet sitter
Code 5164.9
Pet sitters provide animal-sitting services including dog walking, home-boarding, pet/home sitting, day boarding and animal transportation services. They maintain records, use appropriate and safe handling techniques and do routine monitoring of the health and welfare of the animal.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- animal welfare
- biosecurity related to animals
- animal behaviour
- environmental enrichment for animals
- animal welfare legislation
- safe work practices in a veterinary setting
- signs of animal illness
Skills and competences
- apply animal hygiene practices
- assist in transportation of animals
- control animal movement
- provide an enriching environment for animals
- manage animal welfare
- provide nutrition to animals
- implement exercise activities for animals
- monitor the welfare of animals
Transversal competences
- manage animal biosecurity
- handle veterinary emergencies
- provide first aid to animals
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences