These are just some suggestions the I tried and on what you can try to get you own POOPER SCOOPER & PET SITTING business started. I started in December of 1999.  I first started to make up fliers that I posted in stores, vet. offices, my local animal shelter, laundry mats, gas stations and places like that.  I started with a catchy phrase, GOT POOP?? Then I made up a small ad to place in the local papers.  I also contacted our local paper for an interview about the newest business in the area. And yes, they were very interested in what I had to say. Be expected to get some weird phone calls.  There are some people out there that have nothing better to do than call you up and ask you really stupid questions.  Will you come get it out of his butt too?? But it will stop soon enough.  Honest. Then you have to make up your price list.  Be expected to charge what it is worth to you going to a home and cleaning for an hour or two on the first trip.  The very first trip I went on it took me and my husband 2 and a half hours and the customer had 3 small dogs.  But Spring is the time that they really notice all the poop from the winter and it is the best time to advertise. I take a 5 gallon bucket and put a plastic garbage bag inside to collect the DOO. I use a snow shovel and a small plastic garden rake to do the scoopin.  I only fill the bucket about half full, because if it gets to heavy, you will be scooping it up a second time. Once is enough!! Then I tie the bag shut and put it into the customers garbage can. CHECK WITH YOUR LOCAL CITY OR TOWNSHIP ABOUT PUTTING WASTE IN THE GARBAGE..  Some will not allow you to do that. After EACH job, I clean off all the equipment with a very strong bleach solution.  Bleach is the best disinfectant to kill all kinds of worms, parvo and other contagious diseases, that you do not want to transfer to another customers house.  I use a 2 1/2 gallon sprayer, (that is used to spray fruit trees, available at any hardware store), and spray the front and back of the shovel, rake, bottom of the bucket.  I also use disposeable rubber gloves at each job, and throw them away after each job.  I wear rubber boots and spray them off completely after each job also. Your biggest thing is that you DO NOT want to transfer any bad parasites or contageous diseases to another customer or to your own pets. I charge each week, but ask that they pay a for the month in advance.  That is only after I have been going there for awhile and the customer knows that you are for real and honest. I have given pens away to people and also have gift certificates too.  It's something to give someone who has everything. LOL!!!  A free cleaning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check my other pages for prices. Please feel free to write me at any time. Good luck with your new adventure!!

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