Describe the pets you care for and how your service works. Makeform turns your brief into a practical pet sitting form that collects owner contacts, one profile per pet, feeding and medication instructions, home access details, veterinary contacts, and visit expectations before the booking begins.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose the scenario closest to your service, edit its details, or send the prompt to the Makeform builder. Each example shows a useful starting structure, not a completed client response.
Prompt ready4 formats
Audience
Independent sitters scheduling daily home visits
Format
Client intake with repeating pet profiles
Prompt size
528 chars
Brief qualitySends to builder
Example form structure
Client intake with repeating pet profiles
Prompt exampleEditable in builder
Owner, booking dates, and best contact
Short answerFirst ask
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Pet name, species, photo, and temperament
File upload
3
Feeding, medication, and bathroom routine
Long answer
4
Home access and alarm instructions
Long answer
5
Veterinarian and emergency contact
Short answer
Suggested routing tags
Suggested
New client
Care plan review
Booking ready
Ask owners to complete a separate care profile for each pet. Repeating names, diets, medications, and behavior notes in one long answer makes visit instructions easy to mix up.
Step 1
Intake
owner, trip, access, and pet profiles
Step 2
Review
clarify routines, medication, and behavior
Step 3
Confirm
agree on dates, visits, and handoff details
Step 4
Care
follow one organized plan for every visit
Why structured intake matters
A text thread is not a dependable pet care plan.
Important details arrive across messages, meet-and-greet notes, and last-minute reminders. A structured pet sitting form gives each animal a clear profile and keeps the whole household handoff in one response.
One profile for every pet
Use conditional sections or repeated blocks so food, medication, temperament, and routines stay attached to the right animal instead of blending into one household paragraph.
Instructions organized by visit
Turn owner notes into morning, midday, evening, and final-visit tasks. A sitter can scan what is due now without rereading the entire intake at the door.
Missing details caught early
Required fields and automatic notifications surface absent access codes, medication timing, emergency contacts, or return dates while there is still time to ask the owner.
Adapt it to your service
One intake foundation for four kinds of pet care.
Start with the service closest to your booking, then edit the generated fields for the animals, visit pattern, and handoff your clients actually use.
Vacation drop-in visits
Trip dates, visit windows, meals, litter or bathroom routines, medication, access, and update preferences for scheduled home visits.
Overnight house sitting
Pet routines plus sleeping arrangements, home rules, parking, household tasks, and departure instructions for an extended stay.
Recurring dog walks
Harness setup, routes, behavior triggers, weather limits, lock-up steps, and a stable weekly schedule for repeat clients.
Multi-pet households
Species-specific conditional sections, separation rules, individual diets, and a consolidated visit checklist across dogs, cats, and small animals.
From inquiry to care plan
Build a pet sitting form your clients can complete once.
Generate a strong intake structure, tailor it to your service, and share it before the meet-and-greet so in-person time can focus on the pet and the home.
Tell Makeform whether you offer drop-ins, walks, overnights, or several services. Include the pet types you accept and the care details you need before confirming a booking.
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Shape the pet profiles
Edit question wording, require the details that prevent follow-up, and add conditional paths for medication, behavioral concerns, different species, or more than one pet.
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Share before the meet-and-greet
Publish a link or embed the intake on your site. Review the submission in advance, flag unclear instructions, and use the meeting to confirm the routine in the home.
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Route the response into your workflow
Send the completed intake to your inbox, a spreadsheet, Slack, or connected apps. Keep booking status separate from the owner's original care instructions and any later updates.
Form vs messages vs generic template
Choose an intake method that preserves the details.
Pet care information changes by household and by animal. The useful approach is the one that prompts for specifics, keeps answers organized, and gives the sitter a reviewable handoff.
Approach
What happens
Best read
ApproachTexts and email threads
What happensAnswers arrive quickly but feeding notes, access instructions, and trip updates become scattered across conversations.
Best readUseful for a quick clarification, not the primary care record.
ApproachDownloaded pet sitter template
What happensA fixed checklist offers ideas, but clients may skip irrelevant sections or squeeze several pets into the same space.
Best readUseful as a planning reference before building your own intake.
Approach
Generated online pet sitting form
What happensRequired and conditional fields collect the right level of detail, while each submission stays intact and easy to review.
Best readBest for repeatable client onboarding and a clear handoff before care begins.
Field guide
What a useful pet sitting form should include.
The best intake separates booking logistics from animal care and home access. Use these six sections as a review checklist, then adjust the questions to fit your service and each client's household.
Owner and booking
Know who to contact and when care starts.
Capture the booking window before diving into pet details. Exact departure and return timing affects the first and final visits, while a backup person matters when the owner is traveling or temporarily unreachable.
Owner name, mobile number, email, service address, and preferred contact method.
Departure and return date and time, requested visit windows, and service type.
Local emergency contact with phone number, relationship, and access availability.
Individual pet profile
Give every animal an unmistakable identity.
Create one profile per pet, even when routines overlap. A photo and identifying traits help a substitute sitter distinguish similar animals, while age, species, temperament, and normal behavior provide context for every later instruction.
Name, species, breed or mix, age, sex, color, identifying marks, and current photo.
Temperament with familiar people, strangers, children, and other animals.
Favorite toys, rewards, commands, hiding places, and normal signs of stress.
Daily care routine
Turn habits into precise visit tasks.
Ask for quantities, times, locations, and cleanup steps rather than vague phrases such as feed normally. Structured routine fields let the sitter reproduce the household schedule and note which tasks change on the first or last day.
Walk or exercise duration, leash setup, litter or bathroom routine, and waste disposal.
Sleep setup, enclosure care, water refresh, grooming, and morning or evening differences.
Medication and health observations
Record what is due and what deserves a call.
If a pet needs medication, reveal a dedicated set of questions for the name, amount, route, timing, storage, and administration technique. Ask owners to describe the pet's baseline and their escalation preferences without asking the sitter to diagnose symptoms.
Known allergies, mobility limits, ongoing conditions, and recent changes the sitter should observe.
What the owner considers unusual, whom to call first, and where the carrier or transport gear is kept.
Home access and safety
Make entry, care, and lock-up unambiguous.
Collect sensitive access details only through the method your business has chosen, and avoid displaying them in broad team notifications. The form should also explain alarms, doors, gates, cameras, hazards, and how the home must be left after each visit.
Key, lockbox, doorman, parking, entry, alarm, and final lock-up instructions.
Supply, carrier, cleaning item, breaker, water shutoff, and fire extinguisher locations.
A clinic name alone is not enough. Capture the regular clinic, an after-hours option selected by the owner, backup decision-makers, and the preferred sequence for contacting people. Then separate urgent communication from routine visit updates.
Regular veterinarian, clinic phone and address, plus the owner's preferred after-hours clinic.
Owner, local contact, and backup contact order with any availability limitations.
Update frequency, photo preference, communication channel, and issues that merit an immediate message.
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Practical answers for independent sitters, dog walkers, and pet care teams improving client intake.
What is a pet sitting form?
A pet sitting form is an intake used before in-home care, drop-in visits, walks, or overnight stays. It collects booking and owner contacts, an individual profile for each pet, daily routines, medication details, behavior and handling notes, home access, veterinary contacts, and update preferences. The goal is a consistent handoff the sitter can review before arriving, not a substitute for meeting the pet or confirming unclear instructions.
What fields should every pet sitting form include?
Begin with owner name, service address, phone, email, trip dates, visit timing, and a local emergency contact. For each pet, collect a photo, identifying details, temperament, food portions and timing, water, exercise or litter routine, medication instructions, triggers, separation needs, and normal behavior. Add home entry and lock-up instructions, supply locations, the regular veterinary clinic, the owner's selected after-hours clinic, and communication preferences. Use exact quantities and times wherever possible.
How should I handle a household with multiple pets?
Give every animal a separate profile rather than asking the owner to describe all pets in one answer. Use conditional questions based on species, medication needs, behavior, and care type. Then add a household-level section for animals that must be separated, shared feeding locations, door or gate risks, and the order of tasks. A final schedule grouped by morning, midday, and evening helps the sitter see how individual profiles fit into each visit.
Can the form show different questions for dogs, cats, and small animals?
Yes. Use a species question to reveal relevant follow-ups. Dog owners can see leash setup, walks, commands, recall, and reactivity questions. Cat owners can see litter box, hiding place, indoor-only, and door-dashing questions. Small-animal owners can see enclosure, temperature, feeding, and cleaning fields. Keep universal questions such as owner contacts, veterinarian, medications, access, and emergency instructions outside those conditional paths.
What is the best way to collect medication instructions?
Use structured fields for the medication name, labeled dose, time, route, administration technique, storage, and where supplies are kept. Ask whether a demonstration is required and what the owner normally does if a scheduled dose is missed or the pet refuses it. Review the submitted directions during the meet-and-greet and ask the owner to update the form whenever the routine changes. Sitters should follow the agreed instructions and contact the owner or veterinary clinic when clarification is needed.
How should home access information be organized?
Separate entry from departure. Ask for parking, building access, key or lockbox handoff, alarm steps, gates, doors that must remain closed, and the exact lock-up checklist. Explain how your business handles sensitive details and avoid copying access codes into broad notifications or general spreadsheets. Also ask about indoor cameras, expected visitors, off-limits rooms, escape risks, and where essential pet and household supplies are located. Confirm access in person before the first scheduled visit.
Is this pet sitting form generator free?
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect pet sitting intake submissions without a form or response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge. You can keep one intake for all clients, duplicate versions for different services, or build separate forms for drop-ins, overnights, and dog walks.
When should clients complete or update the form?
Send the intake before the meet-and-greet so you can review it and prepare specific questions. Confirm routines, medication technique, access, pet behavior, and emergency contacts together in the home. Ask returning clients to submit changes when food, medication, veterinary contacts, access, household members, or behavior changes. For every new trip, collect the current dates, visit times, travel contact details, household notes, and any temporary care instructions instead of assuming the old booking still applies.
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