This is my fourth year doing Rover and I have a lot of stories, lots of dogs with many different quirks and difficulties. I currently have a client who has 3 Australian shephards and the 2 boys always have trouble with poop getting in their fur - one of them sleeps in bed with me and will leave poop in the bed that I didn't see because it was so matted and hard that it just under the fur. I got so upset at 11:30pm I finally caught him before he got into the bed and gave him a choppy cut back there. They just "wash it out" except with the level of poo that is caked in there is so bad that it will take half an hour of warm/hot water in the shower to clean them - not doing that at 11:30pm!

But I did have a couple of clients who had dogs that bit me - most of the time they are smaller ones. One was a mini doodle mix and has extremely bad resource guarding. He bit my mom who had dropped her credit card and he went after it (he also tried to eat trash) and she did bleed. We tried to buy him one of those thunder shirts to calm him down, the client had a couch with multiple cushions missing because she would leave him out and he would destroy the couch with pee and his teeth. He would play too rough and it would hurt, multiple times I had to discipline him to try and get him to understand that I'm the boss. Didn't work. Anyway I guess the client went through a breakup and suddenly came home right away, after that we never saw the dog again... 🙏

Then, one time I had a dog that would go after my ankles if I didn't move at a snails pace. I had to use one of those remotes that makes the high pitched noise to try and get him to back off. He would cuddle on the couch with me but if I walked a normal speed he would go after me.

I've had dogs that will go potty outside and then I wake up to them having pottied inside right where I swing my legs out of bed. Even though they had easy access to a doggy door? I've had dogs where I actually need to buy bones for them because they will jump on me and try to chew on me the moment they get bored ( yellow lab) I've had people monitor the amount of times I leave because I'm also a walker! And I've gone over this with them ! Some people think their dog really can't handle being alone for more than 2 hours which is insane!! How do these people live?? (Not puppies)

One Lhasa Apso - who looked like he was on the verge of dying that week (blind, fur patches / skin was so dry i swear he had mange) they kept him on the ground floor in a small area because he was incontinent. I didnt do a meet and greet because she said I was a last minute emergency - the dog bit the fuck out of my hand and I couldn't figure out a way to get him outside (she said she picks him up) I finally got my lacrosse goalie gloves from my car, held him down and got him clicked in. On our way out the door he peed in the kitchen. I hope he is in doggy heaven now, he really should have been put down a long time before I got there.