I have been pet sitting all week and I am very tired from all the running back and forth 2 times a day. Now I love dogs and take the responsibility very serious because I have 2 dogs of my own and appreciate their needs.

Today is the last day for Abbey and Calvin the cat, who is very weird I might add, but he is good company for Abbey, he opens the door for her so she can go upstairs even though her parents wanted her to stay in the rec room . Well they should have fixed the door so it would shut right. I shut it and no sooner than I leave Calvin opens it.

I have decided I don’t want to pet sit any more. It would not be a part time job that would interest me even though people make a lot of money doing it. If that wasn’t bad enough Billy decided they were going away for the weekend and asked us to watch their 2 English bulldogs. They left Thursday so we had to go over and let them out which was okay, but yesterday I needed to be at two houses around the same time and make sure they all took care of their business.

I’m good, but I’m not a magician, but I managed to time everything pretty good and all were happy, but me. Of course my dogs weren’t happy because they can smell all these other animals on me when I come home and they go nuts. The last couple of times Bill and I went away we had a couple that we know come and stay at our house with the dogs. I felt okay about leaving knowing someone was with them because they really are like my children. Plus we paid them very well and they had a nice vacation in our house.

That was okay until they broke the washing machine and then locked their self out and had to break out a window to get back in, of course they paid for the window themselves, but I decided not to use those people again. Bill wants to go to the shore for a few days and my brother says he will come over and feed and let my dogs out, but I know from this past week what an imposition it is with all the running back and forth and it seems I am not very trusting of other people to take care of my animals needs because no one knows them like me.

I have had Shadow since he was 7 weeks old, he’s 9 years old now. Before Bill and I got together I always took Shadow with me when I went away. I am thinking about a kennel just because I don’t want them to be alone, but I don’t want Shadow to think we are abandoning him, but I know Bill needs to get away because he is under so much pressure at work and he needs the break. I have until the end of the month to come up with a solution.