PET SITTING
Home at last from a whole week of pet sitting 2 dogs and 2 cats. The owners are a very nice elderly couple and 3 of the animals are wonderful and a pleasure to pet sit, but one of the dogs is what I call a 'Velcro' dog, twice the work of the other 3 combined. And she smells horrible, making her velcroness even less tolerable. 661
Her 'parents' find her constant clinginess and need for attention adorable; they spoil their animals quite a bit, seeing as they're old (the animals and themselves!), and 'you never know how long they'll still be with us', and so there's no hope for corrective training on their end. I tend to spoil the animals under my care too, to make up for being with a stranger, but there's no amount of spoiling that will ever satisfy this animal. She even faked being injured for hours, after a fall in the stairs (due to following me around too closely), making me feel worried and guilty, only to recover miraculously and completely as soon as her owners arrived!
Do you have any pet-sitting stories to share? 679