These veterinary professionals work as technicians by day, highly qualified pet sitters by night.
Photo: Shutterstock.comIn high-cost-of-living areas like the San Francisco Bay Area, more and more veterinary technicians seem to be heading from their day jobs at the veterinary clinic to side jobs as pet sitters. Their reasons for getting into pet sitting vary, but the trend in the lucrative side job is becoming more popular.
“Even with the competitive pay where I work as a tech, I still depend on the money I make from pet sitting, and that’s something that keeps me doing it,” explains Sarah Rojas, RVT, of Adobe Animal Hospital in Los Gatos, California. “I know several other techs who do pet sitting on the side.”…