Every morning one of my client’s dogs greets me at the door with what I like to think of as a gift of sorts. Usually it’s a bone, sometimes it’s her owner’s shoe, occasionally a sock. Today, however, I was shocked to find that my welcoming “gift” was a pair […]
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My company motto, especially given that I love my job so much, is typically “Wag more. Bark less.” But when dogs poop, or even worse, have diarhea in my car, such as what occurred to me yesterday, I can’t help but bark more and wag less. I guess when you […]
Job Hazards…
Last week I had the displeasure of cleaning dog poop out of my car, not once, but twice! As the owner of a doggie daycare, this is not the first time this has happened to me. But it is the first time it has happened multiple times in one week. […]
It’s All Fun and Games Until A Dog Defecates In ...
Nancy DeFazio, owner of Dingo’s Dogsitting, was forced to jump into Foster’s Pond in Swampscott after her dog, Dingo, after Dingo became entangled in an abandoned fishing line. Nancy said her greatest fear upon entering Foster’s was the threat of leaches and snapping turtles, but the love of her dog […]
Woman Performs Daring Water Rescue. Saves Life of Dog Caught ...
What do you think is worse, the smell of a skunk or the smell of a small decomposing animal? Now combine both those smells and that is what I was faced with yesterday! What to do when one very large dog finds and rolls in the decomposing carcass of a […]
Lemons into lemonade?
The shame! The embarrasment! The looks of disgust! There’s nothing worse, as a “professional” dog walker, that those moments when you are inadequately prepared for poop disposal, or to put it more bluntly, when you didn’t bring enough shit bags on your walk and you have to leave one or […]
Poopy Predicaments
Back in February of this year I was dog/house-sitting for a woman who lives in the Savin Hill area of Dorchester; upon approaching her house for the first time this winter (I have, in fact, serviced her and her two beautiful Olde English Bulldogs in both the summer and fall […]
The Incredible Edible Egging
I have a new nickname for one of my dog-sitting clients. That nickname is “Swimmy”. Not just because she enjoys the water. No – I’ve watched quite a number of dogs who enjoy frolicking in the water. Some, like Dingo, seem to delight in merely wading, others like to venture in […]