Business As Usual

Business over the last couple of months has been incredibly varied.  This is one of the many reasons why I love my work.
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• We have looked after kindly old age pensioners from their own homes.  This carries a lot of responsibility as medication needs to be administered and the dogs monitored.  Although Fidos's senior citizens have their own set ways and normally a few adventures up their paws, this arrangement of making visits to walk and feed them seems to work well. Life is calm and routines are kept the same.  We very often arrive to dogs deeply asleep, sprawled out over couches or beds. 
• Recently we have had a spate of couples needing extra help as a baby arrives in the family.  With working life needing to continue as normal, we are often asked to walk dogs while one parent is away for work, or provide much needed relief during a morning or afternoon by offering 'play' at my flat.
• Staying overnight in a house full of pets is a perfect option for keeping the costs down.  A household with 2 dogs and 2 cats can cost anything over 60 euros per night for care.  There is no stress or worry involved in this option, no transport of animals to various places, no wrenching away from routine and familiar smells.  You leave and we arrive!  No fuss. Minky and Thierry, Boris and Maggie will confirm this (2 Whippets and 2 short haired cats respectively).
• Do you have friends to stay but dont want to burden them with walking the dogs.  We have covered for all or some of the walks that our dog community has needed leaving friends free to keep a flexible timetable.

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Thank you so much Linda and Susie for the fantastic service. When I got home Otto was lovely and relaxed. A nice to change to the frantic puppy I see when I usually get home from work. The note from Linda was also a wonderful personal touch. ♥ 
​Charlotte Samantha Joseph and Otto.

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From the first day Susie came in to look after me, I knew things were going to be different. Rather than fuss and try and get me to play with things when I wasn't in the mood, Susie let me go to her in my own time and remembered that it is my house and I am charge when Mum is away. And when she's not, actually. The second time Susie came I was taking medicine and Mum was slightly worried how I would adapt to someone else squirting liquid antibiotics into my mouth through a syringe, given that I had given Mum quite a hard time. But I'd come to trust Susie and liked her calmness, so I actually did it without any fuss. Susie is lovely; she grooms me and talks to me, she listens to me and she feeds me. I am always happy to see her, because I know she is there just for me and not fitting me in between other chores, but spending good quality time with me while Mum is away. When Mum gets back, she is always happy because I'm not despondent or fed up and she knows I have been well cared for and loved. Apparently, she even tells Mum how I'm doing while she is away too and sends her pictures, which is nice. Thank you Susie.
Nicola Thornton and JD or Jack Daniels

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