Would you change your rate for this?
(No specific $$ mentioned)
In the past my cat clients have always been in SFH with their own collection bin. But recently, I have cats in apartments and condos. I currently have two weeks with two cats (started 4 days ago). Super easy sit (drop ins, they hate humans. Like, a lot. lol), but they live in an apartment building with a dumpster, there’s no bin for collection (like a house would have).
The issue is that the dumpster is nowhere near the building, so I can’t walk to it, and it’s in the opposite direction of the exit. Once I get into my car it takes about 5-6 minutes to get to the dumpster and throw away the cat poop. It doesn’t sound like a lot but jt adds up after 14 days. I have one building that i have clients in and while I only have dogs now, depending on where they are in the building it can be a 10 minute walk, depending on how the elevator is treating you. I was thinking I’d add a nominal charge for those that don’t have a collection bin at their house but then what if one client only takes 3 minutes and another clients 3x that.
I just don’t know how to handle it going forward. It’s just enough time and out of my way-ness that I have to consider that extra so many minutes for booking purposes.
Just curious as to what you all do or if you just say that it’s all part of the sit.