Archive for the ‘Website News’ Category

Pet First Aid Certified Logo

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

We've been asked by a couple of our members if we have a logo available which they can use on their websites for when they've passed the online pet first aid course. With this in mind we've designed a logo which members can use. Simply right click on the logo ...

anzpetsit on the up

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

We've been in charge of the website for 7 months now, so we thought we'd have a look at visitor numbers to see how the websites doing and if we've heading in the right direction. Below is a graph plotting visitor numbers from Aug 08 to March 09. In this ...

Care with pets in hot weather

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Just a quick note to those of who who provide dog walking services as well as pet sitting. Please be aware of the dangers that dogs face in the current weather we are experiencing. Dogs need to inhale air cooler than their normal body temperature of 102F degrees (38.8C). ...

A quick reflection on 2008

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Just a quick blog, looking back over the past few months since we took over running anzpetsit. In terms of visitors, as we only took over the website in July, we don't have any figures before this date, so we can't compare how popular the website is. However, for the stats we have, from ...

Website downtime

Friday, September 12th, 2008

You will probably have been aware that the website was unavailable for a period of time yesterday. The details of the outage are explained below by our hosting provider. "As you may be aware, we experienced a failure with upstream provider Optus transit connectivity yesterday afternoon. The cause was discovered as ...

Pet First Aid Course Online

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

We've just added an Online Pet First Aid Course to the website. The course costs $65 AUD / $79 NZD. If the course is paid for at the time of joining / renewing membership ($50 AUD / $65 NZD) then the combined membership+course price is $99 AUD / $125 (a ...

How do I obtain a Police Record Check?

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

We've just added a new page on the website with details of how to obtain a National Criminal History Record Check. Many of the states have pdf application forms which you can now download from our website and send to the relevant authorities to obtain your record check. 

Further checks on prospective members

Monday, August 18th, 2008

In a move designed to further reassure prospective pet sitting clients that any members on the website are insured / police record checked, we have decided to request that members send (via fax or scan&email) copies of their insurance and police record check douments. Once this has been done and ...