If you’re hiring someone to come onto your property regularly, open and close your gates, work around your dogs and move through your yard, it’s completely reasonable to ask:
Are you insured?
At Big Business Scoopers, the answer is yes.
Insurance probably isn’t the first thing most people think about when hiring a pet waste removal company. After all, we’re scooping dog poop — not replacing your roof or rewiring your house.
But we’re still a professional service company working on private property, and that comes with responsibility.
Why Does Insurance Matter?
Any time someone is working on your property, there is some level of risk.
A worker could slip or fall. Property could accidentally be damaged. A gate could be involved in an incident. A dog could behave unpredictably.
Insurance helps make sure those situations can be handled appropriately.
More importantly, carrying insurance is one sign that a company is treating the work as a real business rather than a casual side job.
What About Employees?
This matters even more when a company has employees.
Workers’ compensation coverage is designed to protect employees if they are injured while performing their jobs. It also helps separate that responsibility from the homeowner whose property they happen to be working on.
If a company sends employees to your home, it is completely reasonable to ask whether those workers are properly covered.
Insurance Is Only Part of Professionalism
Insurance alone does not make a company professional.
It is one piece of a much bigger picture.
For us, professionalism also means showing up reliably, communicating with customers, securing gates, treating dogs and property carefully, training employees, maintaining clear policies and taking responsibility when something does not go as planned.
You may never need to think about our insurance coverage during the entire time you use Big Business Scoopers — and ideally, you won’t.
But knowing it exists is part of the peace of mind that comes with hiring an established company.
Should You Ask?
Absolutely.
Whether you’re hiring a landscaper, house cleaner, dog walker, contractor or pet waste removal company, asking about insurance is a normal question.
A professional company should not be offended by it. In fact, we think customers should ask questions about the people they allow onto their property.
Who will be coming to my home? How will I know when they arrive? What happens if my regular technician is unavailable? How do you handle gates? Are you insured?
Those are all reasonable questions, and a good company should have clear answers.
At Big Business Scoopers, we know our customers are trusting us with more than just a dirty yard. They’re trusting us with access to their property and often the spaces where their dogs spend the most time.
We take that seriously.
A clean yard is the obvious result of our work. Professionalism, accountability and peace of mind are the parts you may not see — but they matter just as much.
