Describe your services and handoff process. Makeform creates a pet sitting intake form that gathers each pet's routine, care instructions, behavior, home access details, owner contacts, and booking dates before the first visit.
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Audience
Independent sitters visiting dogs and cats
Format
Multi-pet intake with visit routine
Prompt size
235 chars
Example form structure
Multi-pet intake with visit routine
Owner, address, and booking dates
Add each pet's profile
Feeding, walking, and toilet routine
Medication or special care needed?
Entry and lock-up instructions
Suggested routing tags
New client
Meet-and-greet needed
Special care
Ask owners to separate everyday care instructions from emergency actions so sitters can find urgent information quickly.
Step 1
Book
owner, address, dates, visits, and contact details
Step 2
Profile
one routine and care record for every pet
Step 3
Handoff
keys, alarm, supplies, veterinarian, and backup contact
Step 4
Confirm
sitter reviews gaps before the first visit
Why structured intake matters
One intake keeps booking details, pet routines, access steps, and emergency contacts together.
Repeat identity, routine, behavior, medication, and veterinarian questions for every pet.
Structure feeding, walks, litter tasks, and lock-up steps for quick review.
Keep contacts, veterinarian details, carrier location, and next steps together.
Fit the service
Show relevant details for drop-ins, walks, overnights, or household tasks.
Visit windows, entry, care tasks, play, and lock-up.
Equipment, route, duration, triggers, recall, and weather alternatives.
Sleeping routines, access, house rules, alarm, parking, and departure tasks.
Repeatable pet profiles plus shared household instructions.
Client onboarding workflow
Collect what sitters need, then clarify each response before arrival.
List your walks, drop-ins, overnights, household tasks, and booking requirements.
Add care, access, emergency, medication, and behavior fields.
Share the form and notify the assigned sitter when it arrives.
Clarify missing times, portions, instructions, and access details.
Form vs texts vs generic template
Give the sitter a complete, consistent handoff for the booking.
Field guide
Use six groups to cover booking, pet care, home entry, and contacts.
Owner and booking
Separate trip dates from visit windows and identify who can answer questions.
Pet profiles
Repeat profiles so sitters can match instructions to the right animal.
Food and daily routine
Ask for amounts, times, locations, and exceptions instead of one notes box.
Medication and health notes
Reveal medication details when needed, with room for allergies and mobility needs.
Home access and security
Let clients choose an access method, then show relevant alarm and lock-up fields.
Veterinary and emergency handoff
Ask who to contact first and where transport supplies are stored.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for independent sitters and pet-care teams onboarding a new household.
It is a pre-service questionnaire covering booking dates, contacts, pet profiles, care routines, behavior, veterinarian details, access, and emergencies.
Include owner and booking details, a repeatable section for every pet, daily care and feeding, medication or health notes, behavior and handling, access and security steps, supply locations, a regular veterinarian, an emergency clinic, and a local backup contact. Add service-specific fields for walks, overnight stays, or household tasks.
Repeat the pet profile for each animal. Keep the address, access, booking dates, and local contact at household level.
Yes. Ask whether a pet needs medication, then use conditional logic to reveal fields for the medication name, amount, schedule, administration method, storage, and the owner's requested reporting. The sitter should review any unclear instructions with the owner before service.
Offer choices such as an in-person key handoff, lockbox, concierge, or door code, then show instructions specific to the selected method. Restrict access to submissions to the people who need them, and set an internal process for updating or removing access details after the booking.
Yes. Ask for the regular veterinarian, clinic phone, the owner's preferred emergency clinic, a local contact, and the order in which the owner wants people contacted. Also collect the location of carriers, leashes, and medication information so the handoff is practical.
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Review it before each booking, especially after changes to care, behavior, contacts, access, or veterinarian details.
Replace scattered care notes with one client handoff.
