626: The Ho-Hum Pet Sitter
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What happens when the joy of pet sitting starts to fade into monotony? In this episode, we explore why the “ho-hum” feeling creeps in, from repetitive routines and emotional fatigue to physical exhaustion, isolation, and the comparison game on social media. We share how staying stuck in this flat season can impact client experience, dull attention to detail, and accelerate burnout. While monotony is a natural byproduct of sustained work, it doesn’t have to define your business. By shifting perspective, setting micro-goals, refreshing routines, learning something new, and prioritizing real rest, you can reignite your motivation and keep showing up with purpose for pets and their people.
Main Topics
Why monotony shows up
Risks of staying stuck
Micro-goals to add novelty
Reframing purpose and “why”
Rest, learning, and experimentation
Main takeaway: “Monotony isn’t a sign that you don’t care anymore. It’s a natural byproduct of sustained, repetitive work.”
If pet care feels flat, you’re not broken—you’re human. Start tiny: take a new route, set a micro-goal, or write today’s update from the dog’s point of view. Look for one new detail—different eyes, a funny ear curl, a new cue reinforced—and share it with the client. Reconnect with your “why”: this isn’t just another walk; it’s the highlight of a pet’s day and peace of mind for their person. Rest on purpose, learn something new, and aim for just 1–5% better tomorrow.
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Meghan 00:00
Collin, Hi, I'm Megan. I'm Collin. We are the hosts of pet sitter confessional, an open and honest discussion about life as a pet sitter. We appreciate you listening today and joining us on this journey, whether it's your first episode or your 626th episode. We are so glad that you are here. We'd also like to thank our sponsor, pet sitters associates and also our executive producers on Patreon, and they are people who love the show, find value in it and want it to keep going. So they have given us a little bit of their money every month. If you are listening and that sounds like something that you want to be involved in, you can go to pet sitter confessional.com/support let's be honest. If you have been in the pezzetting and dog walking industry for any length of time, it can look pretty dreamy from the outside, right? And then once you get in, you're like, Ah, this isn't what I signed up for. But from the outside, it could be flexible, hours, cute animals, working for yourself. It seems like the dream job. Some people might say, Oh, you get to play with dogs and cats all day. That must be amazing. And yes, while it is amazing, there's obviously a lot more tied up into that. Here's the reality, after years in this business, sometimes it doesn't feel amazing anymore. Sometimes it feels ho hum, flat, like every day is the same. Sure, we're visiting different dogs and cats each day and going into different homes, but it can feel pretty humdrum.
Collin 01:18
Yep, you're walking the same streets, feeding the same pets, writing the same reports, especially for those pets that you've cared for for year after year, sometimes those reports get really hard to make unique and special, and then the joy that we once had about what we did and what we focused on and what we worked with, it now feels dulled. And if you're like most other professional sitters. You might even feel guilty about this. How dare I be bored when I get to do this for a living? I chose to be here. This is my business. I love animals so much. But again, here's this truth. Monotony is part of the job. Every profession has its daily grind, has its seasons that it works through. The question isn't, will it happen? It's, what will we do when it does to us? So
Meghan 02:09
that's what we're going to talk about today. Is the ho hum side of pet sitting. Why it happens? The risks of staying stuck in the daily grind, and, most importantly, practical ways to reignite your motivation. This monotony can happen, whether we realize it or not. Why does the ho hum feeling creep in? It could be because of repetition. Pet Sitting is built on routine. Or dog walks, you're walking the same dogs over and over every day. Pets thrive on that consistency, which means that we as the humans, repeat the same walks, the same feedings, the same playtimes day after day,
Collin 02:41
and oftentimes we want to cultivate this relationship with the same clients, right? We want to have repeat clients. It can be expensive and costly to go out and acquire new clients, so the dream is to have clients who are with you year after year, but again now the consistency kicks in. And while that is a big bonus for the pet and the person, it can be a drawback to us because, well, it's Daisy and it's three o'clock, so I'm always doing this, and then after Daisy, I always go do this, and then I do this, and then this and this and this. That repetition, which is a good thing, can be a bad thing for us
Meghan 03:13
well, because that's sometimes what we use in our marketing messaging, as well as pets thrive on consistency routine. We will be there no matter what, taking your dog on a walk the same day, at the same time, over and over again, but it can really lead to emotional fatigue. Because we're caring for pets. We're supporting their people through their lives with their pets, that can mean illness to either the human or the pet or the client, moving or going through some sort of grief cycle or joy. Maybe they had something really awesome happen to them, that kind of emotional labor adds up. Because, again, we're not just talking about one client. We're dealing with here that we're having to go through these things with. It's 1020, 100 500 1000 clients, and this isn't really scalable, because it can totally lead to burnout. Yeah,
Collin 03:56
you go through those roller coasters of one visit, you're there, and you're dealing with a very sick, elderly dog or cat who's on its last legs, and you're trying to help them stay comfortable. The next visit, you're going to the new family who got a brand new puppy. And then the next visit, you're doing something completely different. And over time, this ups and downs and ups and downs, while it may seem like well, that adds variety to your life. Well, this emotional fatigue, though, this leads to a dulling of ourselves, because we can't ride the high highs and the low lows, so we get blunted at either end, and we just kind of mellow out in the middle, which means that we don't really get excited about a whole lot of things, that joy. We don't ride that up and then the sadness and the grief doesn't really impact us either. We kind of become numb to all of that, that and really just kind of go through the motions.
Meghan 04:45
It's definitely exacerbated, because we oftentimes feel like we're alone on our island. I'm the only one in my business. I'm a solo or even if I have a team, they don't understand what I'm going through the day in and day out. I feel isolated. Most of our time is spent with the pets, not people, even if you. Are mostly out of the field and doing admin work. It's still very lonely
Collin 05:03
well, and many of us would say, Oh, I'm more of a pet person than a people person, but we have to be honest when we when we go through tough times, when we do have exciting things in our lives, we want to share those with somebody. I mean, it is beneficial to be around other people being a hermit, especially in it's in an isolated way like this, can be very damaging to us, where, again, emotionally, we're not don't have that outlet. We don't have somebody to encourage us. We don't have that connection to another person to live with and go through our lives with, which means that again, we get we get blunted, and all these things get reduced.
Meghan 05:37
And it's kind of like the perfect storm here, because we go through this emotional fatigue, we feel alone. And then there's the physical grind of this as well, the Getting up early, the staying up late, the actual walking or going from house to house. When our bodies are fatigued, it can feel like everything is heavier. Everything is exacerbated.
Collin 05:55
Yeah, we just have that weight that you carry around with you all of the time when you're really tired. I know for me at least. I mean, this rings true when I'm really tired, the whole day just just a slog to get through, and then having to do that day after day after day, you never get a full rest. You never get a time to recover. It's always one more thing, one more thing, one more thing. And then make it like you said, you're piling on all of this other stuff. It's just stacking and stacking and stacking.
Meghan 06:21
And finally, the humdrum creeps in because of the comparison game that a lot of us play. We ourselves are included. Social media shows, the highlight reel other sitters looking inspired and joyful, and they have all their ducks in a row and their eyes crossed and their T's dotted. Meanwhile, you feel like you're stuck in the mud and you can't go anywhere and nothing's working in your business. Minami isn't a sign that you don't care anymore. It's really a natural byproduct of sustained, repetitive work. And again, this is just kind of par for the course. It's not saying that there's not something we can do about it. It's just we have to realize that at some point we are going to experience this.
Collin 06:55
And this is an aspect that we often do not consider or try and set up things to sustain us in the long term with because again, many times we get in this, it's a passion business. We're passionate about helping people, we're passionate about helping pets, and we get into it, and it doesn't feel like a business at first, because, man, this is just so fun. And then year three, year four, year 10, year 20, it's, it's, that's where we're talking about here. Of we're in this for the long term. We've been moving, we've been doing, we've been all of this stuff, and nothing new seems new under the sun to us anymore. And where do we go from there? Again, it's just part of when you have that sustained work, and that's it's that sustained element that really keys into my brain when we go I want to be in this business for the rest of my life. I want to be in this business for as long as I possible can. But what are the implications of that? And am I fully prepared to take those on and set up, set me up for success well,
Meghan 07:51
and even if you are listening, you're saying, I don't want to be doing this for the next 5040, years. That's not, that's not my goal. I just, I just want to do this for a season and then be done. The framework is the same, though we don't want to be stuck here, because the danger isn't in the feeling of the ho hum, it's staying there. Client Experience suffers when we stay there. We have a flat energy when that shows up in our reports, or we're not as passionate anymore. So at the meet and greet, we don't arrive with a level 10 energy. We come with more of a six, where we really come with more of a six. Maybe our photos are more lackluster these days. We're not trying to get those action shots or really clear photos. Our interactions again with clients. Maybe they call you on the phone and you are just so tired of answering the same questions over and over that you're just, you're sick of it, and you you get a little terse with a client. Clients can notice when your enthusiasm dips, when you're not as passionate about this anymore. And we're not saying that you need to just be at a 10 all the time and dump 100% of your energy into this and do nothing else and be passionate about nothing else. No.
Collin 08:56
But what we are saying is you have to find an energy level that you can sustain for the long haul. Again, that's what we're talking about here. Are you? Are you doing things now that you will be able to do consistently every time for the next 1520, 3040, years? That's what this is. But you're right, like, when that new client calls, like, just start there. The new client calls you asking about pet care, and you're in this flat zone. You're in the hum, humdrum zone where you're just like, I don't care. I don't know, whatever you're in the whatever phase that new client calls you, are they going to be excited to work for you if you're just kind of meh and bleh on the phone and whatever? Okay, cool, fine. No, that you want that client experience to be great and fantastic all the time. And the danger again. Here's Okay, so that's a pet. That's that's the client aspect. What about when the pet care starts slipping? When you're on autopilot, details get missed, not just not that they they might. It's that they do get missed, medications, behavior change, new instructions, all these aspects that rapidly change when we go on autopilot. Pilot, because the rest the big picture stuff is boring and monotonous to us. The details start getting wiped off our radar, and we don't look for them. And when many of us get in business, we go, man, I am so detail oriented. I'm all about the details and the details matter, and the details are really important to me. But when we're in the ho hum, we're in the whatever the details, we stop caring. We're not passionate about rereading the client update or asking the client for new information, or really double checking the information before we walk into that
Meghan 10:27
visit. And so when you have this attitude over time, the work that you once loved becomes just another visit. That resentment can push people out of the industry altogether.
Collin 10:37
Because instead of showing up saying, I get to do something, now, we start showing up, saying, I have to do something. Or when that client books, and we go, Oh, I've got to do that again. You mean, I've got to do this again? What do i You can't expect me to do that. That that resentment all of a sudden, it just clouds everything. And it's like, it's, it's like a stain on everything that we do. We become embittered. It changes our tone, our passions not there. And the care does start to slip. And that resentment, man, that's that's really insidious well,
Meghan 11:05
and it accelerates burnout as well. Because, you know, monotony is a cousin of burnout. If you don't address it, you risk quitting all together, not because you hate the work, you still love the puppy cuddles and the kitty kisses, but because you stopped finding joy in it. And that's the really dangerous part, when you have this monotony and you stay there, you choose to stay there, it can really feel like a flat season of I don't want to do this anymore, and I'm just ready to get out. But there is hope. So let's get practical. How do you push through the flat seasons? But before we get there, I want to tell you about our friends at pet sitters, associates, all professionals should have specific pet business insurance as a pet sitter, you know how much trust goes into caring for someone's furry family member, but who's got your back for over 25 years, pet sitters Associates has been helping pet care pros like you with affordable, flexible insurance coverage, whether you're walking dogs, pet sitting or just starting out, they make it easy to protect your business. Get a free quote today@petsetllc.com as a listener, you get $10 off your membership when you use code confessional at checkout. That's pets@llc.com because your peace of mind is part of great pet care. The first step to pushing through the flat season is changing your environment. So again, we said walking the same dog on the same route every single day. Well, what if it's a different route? Maybe you take a left instead of a right. Maybe you walk down the street instead of up the street. In pet sitting visits, rotate toys or games for the pets. Maybe, if it's a very long pet sitting visit, and the dog has access to some toys when you're there, maybe hide some toys and then the next time that you're over, bring them out. It's kind of like what we used to do with the kids of a toy rotation. They're always excited for the new toy that they think, yeah,
Collin 12:41
and this may not sound like much like, okay, really, you want me to go left instead of right, or right instead of left, but yes, even small little nuances and changes that we can make throughout our day build up over time and are very powerful to us. As our brain needs different stimulation. We find new things. We learn new things. It's different exposure to things that allow us to get a little bit of excitement and novelty in our day well.
Meghan 13:07
And of course, we always talk about how the dogs need different things, right? They love the fetch one day and the Frisbee the next, or the pig toy versus the alligator toy. We talk about that all the time, or a new route so they can smell different mailboxes and different flowers, but we need that as well.
Collin 13:22
Yeah, set those micro goals for you. Hey, this, this holds whether you are solo or whether you have a team, challenge yourself to take the best Photo of the Week and even punch this up a little bit and send it out to some friends or family to ask, Hey, which one of these five Do you like the most? And then share that out on social media. See how many cues you can reinforce on a walk with that dog that you've been walking for so long. We have some clients who we've cared for three times a day for multiple years. How do we make those fresh and keep those interesting by challenging on different cues or different training things with them during the walk, taking them to different spots and really focusing on different areas throughout the time, maybe try and find one new detail about a pet each day. Oh, I didn't know you had a bump on your front pad or, Oh, look at the way that your hair kind of curls right this on the back of your head. Isn't that interesting? Or, I'd never noticed that your eyes were just slightly different colors. But these little details that you can focus in show two things, one that you're really hyper, paying attention and focusing on the pet. This brings you in the moment. And then two, you're communicating out to the client, letting them know that you're bonding and connecting with that pet like you've never have before, just something novel, something unique about pets that you'd be amazed if you just sit down and stare, feel, touch, be with for an extra one two minutes, you'll be amazed at what you can find.
Meghan 14:44
We're trying to work through the monotony here, and while a lot of that is physical, I think more so it is mental shifting your perspective. Remember, for the client, this isn't routine. It's their whole world. It's their love, their family. You're not just walking another dog. You are providing peace of mind. You are you're saying you can trust me, because I notice these things, and I am here as your partner, noticing specific details and sharing them out with you.
Collin 15:10
Yeah, whenever you have that moment when you're staring at that pet, the first thought needs to be there's a person behind those eyes that loves you more than anything in the world. There's a person who loves you so much that they want me to be here when they can't be here and while showing up for, quote, just another dog walk is part of my day. This is a highlight to that pet's day. This is a highlight that they get, that I get to bring to them to make their lives better. I mean, this is where getting to know the client, getting to to understand why they need you is so important, because sometimes it can allow us to connect to something deeper, where we start understanding of, oh, man, okay, the only way that they can take on this job, or the only way that they can go to that funeral, or the only way that they can whatever, whatever is be never I'm here. That adds a lot of weight and gravity to what we are here, and really punches through the monotony. And when we can connect that on a mental level, it makes it so powerful.
Meghan 16:07
Yeah, we're saying to the client, I'm going to invest in the connection with you, in the connection with your pet, and us as sitters. We have to do that too. Invest in ourselves, in our connections. Talk to other pet sitters, go to an industry event or a conference or a networking event in your city, join an online group for pet
Collin 16:26
sitters, listen to a really cool podcast about pet sitting. I'm just I'm
Meghan 16:29
just saying sharing struggles and wins. So we're not just here to complain and bemoan how hard this is and how hard we work. And yes, that is true. We do work very hard, but we want to celebrate in our wins as well. You hit your revenue goal. That's great. You did more dog walks than ever this week. That's awesome. Congratulations.
Collin 16:49
Yeah, you took a coffee break this week with a friend. That is amazing when we are forced to also just pull unique points of our week out and tell them to somebody. It really helps us start cutting through that monotony, because many times we may think, Oh, nothing happened this week. This week. Really wasn't excited. I was on autopilot. And then whenever you start digging into it or staring at that calendar, because somebody's saying they're saying, What's your win, or what's something that you loved this week? What was your favorite part about this week? I know it's something that that we try very intentionally to do with with our kids at the end of every day, who had a good day, was it a thumbs up day? Was it a thumbs down day? And then if it was a good day, thumbs up day, we say, what was your favorite part, getting them to focus on even though it was a blur. And sometimes Meg and I will even have to sit there and go, Oh my gosh. What did we do today? What even happened? But when you forced to say something, you all of a sudden start realizing, oh my goodness, so many wonderful things happened today. Or, yeah, there were some not so good things there. But I'm still very thankful for my health or my family or the people around me. Again, it brings you in the moment.
Meghan 17:57
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Collin 18:19
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Meghan 19:11
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Collin 19:33
from Yeah. And then you know, as you're setting your micro goals of the small things you want to do, make sure that you are celebrating your small wins. Write down one good thing from each day. Keep a highlight reel that you can look back on when you feel flat. Write these in different places so that you can celebrate them, so that when you reach the end of the year you have a lot to look back on.
Meghan 19:52
The biggest one to break up the monotony is shaking up your business. Oh yeah, do new things, not just routes, not just new toys. Is, but maybe it's adding a new service you're genuinely excited about, or finally getting started on emails to your clients you've always wanted to do that, or blogging or learning something about taxes so that you can be better about preparing your taxes next year.
Collin 20:15
Maybe it is a full rebrand or just a refresh of your website or your social media presence that you're trying to do there. Or you do try different social posts where you say, Okay, I'm not going to do templates anymore. I want to try doing some short videos. Or I want to try something that's you're experimenting sometimes for the first time in a long time. And what really helps you get to this step when you're doing these things in your business is by doing some of the little things that we've talked about, going to professional development, learning new things, being around other people, you know, getting feedback, celebrating your win, setting these micro goals. A lot of times, it gives you the confidence and the knowledge to start going, hmm, what could I do differently? What if I did something that was just, you know, and I tried to communicate to something different, or I tried to connect with a different type of client, or I tried to offer instead of an hour long? What if I did just an hour and a half and I pitched it as a social group, or something like that, like even those things, it adds a little bit of excitement to you, because it's new for the first time in a long time.
Meghan 21:12
And sure, yeah, it can be scary to try new things, but also that's what makes it exciting. That's what brings that, that vibrancy, back into your business.
Collin 21:20
And with all of this, make sure that you prioritize your rest right. Make sure that you prioritize you and your well being through all of this. Sometimes monotony is just actually our body asking for a break. It needs some time to reset and reconfigure itself, so take some guilt free time off. Block out those dates, tell your clients about them, and then tell them again and again and again, and then just wait for all of the inquiries to pile in for that weekend. But take that time off. Make sure that you actually are able to reset and you're not focused on the things that are a monotony to you, because that's that's really a dangerous we take time off, but then we think about the things that were boring and monotonous to us while we were engaged.
Meghan 22:04
Yeah, and resting doesn't mean going to sleep, taking a nap, it can, but it can also mean doing your hobbies, finally getting that scuba certification,
Collin 22:13
yes, going for a long hike or taking a painting class. I know that's something actually Megan and I did. We did a sip and paint class that we won because of the summer reading program at her local library. Are either of us very good painters. I will not speak for Megan. I will just say, for me, no, I'm very bad at painting. I'm not the best either. But we showed up because it was fun, new, novel, different, and we had a blast doing it. And it's finding those little things where you can say, hey, I'm going to step outside of my comfort zone here. I'm going to rest from my monotony by doing something completely different.
Meghan 22:48
You mentioned walking the same clients day after day for three years straight and counting. So not only have we had to talk to ourselves about this monotony, but we've had to coach our employees as well of going, yeah, the client still wants to see their dog in different scenarios, in front of different landmarks. They don't want the same old story written to them day after day of we walked by the gas station again today. It does need to be exciting, which can be hard, but is really crucial to prevent that lackluster effect on your business. And
Collin 23:18
so what we do with this is we actually sit down with them, and we explain again, we refocus them and say, Okay, this is really important, because this is the only outside time that this dog gets. The client couldn't have the pet unless they we were here showing up for them. This is important for their enrichment, their mental health and well being, and a well rounded life for the pet. So we need to do this. Refocus them on the why that we're here. Then we give them challenges. Hey, here's a new route to try. Or, hey, why don't you focus on these kind of photos? Or, hey, here's a new way to write an update. Why don't you these little challenges of instead of doing a fact based update to a story based update, or do is do an update from the from the viewpoint of the dog, and tell their side of the story of the update, even these little tweaks where we go, we're still gonna do all of the same things, just from a different perspective. This gives them, them permission to start being a little bit more creative, or these little things that now they can start to imbue themselves in and focus on one thing I know, one thing that I find that I have to do sometimes, of like, Oh my gosh. Okay, so this was the same walk that we're doing for this dog. It's the 17th time that I've been here. Nothing new has happened, but I saw a butterfly, so let me tell a whole story about the butterfly, or let me tell a whole story about stopping and sniffing the grass or whatever. It's focused on one particular thing, and we're going to make that our focus again, bringing us in the moment, making it purposeful and informational and engaging to the client.
Meghan 24:47
I said at the beginning of this that this season will happen in your business. It may happen on week two. It could happen at year 20. You just don't know. But something important is you don't always need to fix it right away. So. Give yourself permission to feel flat. It is okay just again. Don't stay there. It's okay to acknowledge the feeling. You don't have to be on fire for pet sitting every single day. You can love your work and still feel bored at times. But when we are grateful, when we say, I get to do this work, I get to provide this care, that gratitude and the monotony can exist at the same time. The key, though, is not to deny it, because if you deny it, the guilt creeps in, and that grit, that guilt can make you feel even worse. Instead, you say, again, I get to do this. Yes, today felt flat. I didn't have the joy that I usually feel. That's okay. I'm going to sit in that feeling, but I know that tomorrow I can do better. Can I do 5% better? Or can I do 1% better?
Collin 25:49
Yeah, that gratitude and monotony existing at the same time, I think we're really tapping into why we're showing up. Am I showing up because I need to feel happy I need. Am I placing my needs and my wants above and beyond those of my pets and those above my my clients? And where's the balance there? Because, yes, this is our business. This is a business. We should feel engaged and love what we do, but we it's not going to happen every single day, and so when I can connect with a with a higher purpose, with a greater meaning behind my work, that's what helps make it worth it. That's what helps make sure that whenever the monotony comes in, I don't panic and suddenly think, Oh crap, I don't love this anymore, so therefore I have to quit or, therefore something must be wrong. I need to get away from this instead going, No, this is part of it, right? I'm just going through a slow time right now. It's kind of a drudgery, but I know my work is important, and so I'm still going to show up. It's that level of commitment that really separates people out in any industry of if at the first sign of my feelings wavering, I bail and jump ship and try and go find something, and grass is always greener on the other side. Well, it's green because it hasn't been eaten. So by the time we get over there and eat it, guess what's green? The green on the other side. And so just saying, Hey, there, this is a season. There will be a little bit of brown grass here for a little bit, but the seasons will change and it'll come back. My job is to be here for my clients and make sure that I show up as best I can. And like Megan said, I need to show up 5% more tomorrow, or maybe just, is there a Can I eke out 1% more? It'll be 1% better or more engaged, and go from there.
Meghan 27:42
So our challenge to you is notice when you're feeling ho hum. Don't ignore the feeling. Acknowledge that it's there and ask yourself, What's one thing I can do tomorrow to make the day just a little more interesting, to make it less ho hum? Remember the monotony doesn't erase the impact of your work. You are doing amazing things for your clients, for their pets, for yourself, what you do is extraordinary, even when it feels ordinary to us. If you found ways to fight off the ho hum in your business, we would love to hear them. You can email us at Pet Sitter confessional@gmail.com or look us up on Facebook and Instagram. At Pet Sitter confessional, we appreciate you listening today. We are so thankful that you are here and you show up for your clients and, more importantly, for yourself, we also want to thank pet sitters Associates, And we will talk with you next time bye.
