Free Pet Sitter Checklist Printable (2-Page Instructions Template)
A pet sitter's worst afternoon is guessing: which food, where the leash is, who to call when the owner's phone goes quiet. This page is a two-sheet answer. Page one holds the pet's info, a week of feeding slots, and a walk log. Page two holds the vet clinic, two backup contacts, and the house rules, all in the owner's own handwriting. Fill it out together before the first booking, leave it on the counter, and the sitter stops guessing. The 18-page client book this sheet comes from is linked at the bottom.
How to use this page: print at 100% scale - it lands on two sheets. Sit down with the owner and fill page one: the pet's name and age, three lines for anything the sitter should know, then the feeding table one row per day and the walk log below it. Page two carries the vet contact box, the emergency contact box, and the house rules - the owner fills these in, the sitter reads them. Tick the four ask-the-owner boxes as you go.
The two-page pet sitter instruction sheet
Nothing here diagnoses anything or tells you how to care for an animal. The sheet records what the owner says, in the owner's words, and the sitter follows it. It is a care log, not advice.
Pet sitter instructions - page 1
Fill this with the owner before the first visit. Every empty line is a question for them, not a guess for you.
Sheet 1 of 2 · pet info · feeding · walks
The pet
Pet name
Age
Meds & notes (write what the owner says)
Feeding table - one row per day, from the owner
Day
AM
PM
Write the schedule as the owner says it, not as any packet says it.
Walk log - log it the same day
Date
Duration
Notes
Rain and skipped walks get logged too - the log is a record, not a highlight reel.
Pet sitter instructions - page 2
Contacts and house rules, copied from the owner. The sitter follows what is written here.
Sheet 2 of 2 · vet · emergency · house rules
Vet contact (recorded from the owner's card)
Clinic and phone
After-hours number
Clinic address
Emergency contact - leave two, not one
Owner and phone
Backup contact and phone
Owner's written instruction if nobody answers
House rules
House rule for other dogs and people
Rooms the pet cannot enter
How you get in (door, keys, where they live)
Ask the owner (tick when asked, write the answer)
Food brand and where it lives
Treat rules
Sounds and situations the pet hates
Words the pet answers to
Vet details here are contact information only, copied from the owner's card. Care decisions belong to the owner; this sheet records instructions, it does not give them.
4 opinions on leaving instructions a sitter will follow
Leave two contacts, not one. (Opinion.) The owner's phone is the first number a sitter dials, and the first one that can be in a meeting or on a plane. A backup contact with the line "if nobody answers, do this" turns a dead hour of phone tag into one decision. The sheet's emergency box holds both for a reason.
Fill the sheet sitting next to the owner, never from memory. (Opinion, straight from the pack's how-to: every empty box is a question to ask, not a guess to make.) Ten minutes of owner answers beats a page of sitter assumptions, and the ticking habit in the ask-the-owner list keeps the questions from being skipped.
Write feeding exactly as the owner says it. (Opinion, from the pack's own note under the schedule: "write the schedule as the owner says it, not as any packet says it.") The sheet has no dosages on it on purpose - if the feeding row is unclear, the fix is a call to the owner, not a guess at the bag.
Print a fresh sheet per booking and keep the filled ones. (Opinion, again from the pack's how-to, which says to keep one book per year and archive the filled ones.) A filled sheet is a record of what was actually said and what actually happened on the walks, which is exactly what you want in hand if a "you never told me that" conversation shows up later.
What the full 18-page client book adds
"A printable client book for a one-person pet sitting and dog walking business: one profile spread per pet, three undated service calendars, a 30-row walk log, booking and payment trackers, client contacts, a supplies checklist and two-page incident reports. Pick your paper size, print what you need, write on paper. No app, no login, no subscription." - the product README
Pet profile spread (2 pages per pet): identity, vet contact copied from the owner's card, owner and backup, ask-the-owner boxes, feeding schedule write-in, walk rules and house access.
Three undated service calendars: write the day numbers when you start, so the book begins whenever the next client does and no page expires at year end.
Walk log, 30 rows: date, pet, duration and what actually happened - the 5-row version on this sheet is the per-booking slice.
Booking log and payment tracker: 20 bookings with confirm flag and rate, then 20 entries for money that actually arrived, with a page-total line per spread.
Client contacts and supplies checklist: 15 households with access notes, plus a 20-row supply list with 10 pre-filled suggestions to overwrite.
Two-page incident reports: page one the facts in order, page two who called, who was notified, the outcome and the follow-up you promised.
Printing: two files, same 18 pages - A4 and US Letter PDFs, print at 100% scale, forest green and tan on warm near-white, typographic only. Reprint any page when it fills up.
License: personal use - print as many copies as you need for your own sitting work. No reselling or republishing the files.
Honest note: these two pages are a care log for writing in, nothing more. Care pages record the owner's written instructions - the owner's rules are the rules the sitter follows - and nothing here is veterinary advice; medical questions go to the owner and their clinic. The tips above are opinions from use, not research findings.