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Why we don't take overnight clients we don't know
Most pet sitting goes like this. You're leaving Thursday. You find someone on Tuesday. They meet your dog on Wednesday. On Thursday they have your keys and you're on a plane.
You can't tell in one meeting whether someone will show up. You find that out over months, on ordinary days, when it's raining and nothing is at stake.
By the time you travel, we've usually let ourselves into your home a few dozen times. We know where the harness lives and which stair your dog slips on. We know they won't eat until someone sits down. We know the noise they make at the door that means something is wrong, because we've heard the one that means nothing is.
Your dog knows us too. That kind of trust can't be arranged the week before a trip. It gets built on all the days you weren't going anywhere.