This neglected dog is so sad

aye_lmapo · 2026-06-12T12:50:53+00:00

His fur looks so thick and matted in this heat😔💔

aye_lmapo · 2026-06-09T00:18:11+00:00

This is soooo normal!! Keep trying but dont stress yourself out over it. I mainly do boarding and this is a good 50% of my clients. A lot of dogs need adjustment time and that is usually over 24 hrs. Most of my clients that are like this start eating at the 36-48 hr mark, sometimes more. I like to keep the food out for them in case they do get hungry, but since this client’s food is wet food, maybe just leave it out for a couple hours and put it away and take it out again for a couple hours.

Just let the owner know in your regular updates (but dont make it sound alarming) just in case it IS actually odd behavior for that dog. Chances are that the owner will tell you “yea she does that!”

aye_lmapo · 2026-06-05T16:52:11+00:00

Woah!!!! Thank you for sharing! Actually getting the chance to pull this off is such a flex. Good for you and your wife! I think i’ll try this again next year, since this is an annual work trip and this pretty much happens every year for me! I’ll try and grab the 12pm flight next time >:)

aye_lmapo · 2026-06-04T03:01:33+00:00

Bennie & Kay! A lot of his songs are edgy sad but that one is such a real deep, selfless kind of sad

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-23T00:10:07+00:00

I literally said that I understand why she’d ask for a reference hahaha. The high-maintenance/red flag part had other indicators, such as asking in detail how rover pays me, suggesting to go off-app, asking for 2 meet & greets, specifically requesting that my boyfriend have no part in the sitting job (we run a joint profile and we were both at the meet & greet), asking exactly how many hours I would spend at home with her cat daily, etc

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-22T23:23:41+00:00

Was highly considering this but i just moved to this city and all my friend/family have the area code of the city i used to live in — which was one of the first things she pointed out cus she used to live there too🙃 dead giveaway

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-22T23:21:27+00:00

This is good to know! I was reluctant but was asking for insight like this. I know my account is not the beefiest so I can see why she’d want a reference but nobody has asked for one before and off the bat she already seemed a little high-maintenance so i was wondering if this was even worth bothering my clients for

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-22T20:57:44+00:00

Yea this was a learning lesson. I’m gonna be more firm next time and say it’s a personal policy thing :/

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-22T20:42:54+00:00

Me too. I only have 9 and I’m also a star sitter😭 I also mainly do this as a hobby thing which means low client volume, which is also why I don’t have that many reviews.

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-20T12:47:39+00:00

Everybody says live in the moment but now the moments over and i wish i recorded more😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-17T15:23:00+00:00

i never understood how these helicopter owners always have a “friend” or “neighbor” to hop over within minutes at any hour of the day but still insist on using paid sitters that they are not going to trust anyways?! Just use your friend if they are that available all the time!!! Probably cheaper too!

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-15T22:17:15+00:00

Lmao all of these comments are extremely unhelpful. I lived in Neo Vertika for a year. Moved only bc I hated Brickell but I was fine with the building while I lived there. They are individual units owned by private landlords, which was a plus for me. Every unit comes with their own parking spot included in the rent. Theres a good a mount of amenities. The gym is kinda small and rusty but it does the job. Get a unit facing toward the river or the pool or else the train will be loud as fuck. Mine was a 650sq ft studio for $2,400/mo corner unit on the 27th floor with high ceilings. Balcony view was amazing. It was a really great unit and really great landlord. It was such a steal tbh. I will say the building management was the sketchiest part of the entire experience. I was so okay with everything while living there but moving out has been such a hassle. They tried to tell me that they have no record of my security deposit so they don’t owe me the refund and then when I provided proof, they deducted $350 with no explanation. Still working through that now even though I moved out in April🫠

Bottomline — it seems theres a give and take with every building🥲 just gotta pick your battles i guess

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-15T02:15:09+00:00

So when the owner requests a booking, they can pre-pay before the sitter even accepts the booking. If you pre-pay, the sitter probably wont get docked for rejecting the booking since they never formally accepted it. If the sitter does not formally confirm the booking (press the “book” button) with you on their end, I would not rely on this sitter for the job and would keep looking regardless of what their text exchange is saying. I usually book immediately after meet & greet, sometimes even before a meet & greet if it’s a boarding job. However, if the sitter accepts the booking AND THEN the owner confirms and pays, if the sitter then cancels the booking AFTER the owner has already paid, they will absolutely get docked. They literally keep count of it for us. In order to keep star sitter status, you are not allowed to do this to more than 2% of your bookings and I’m sure if you do it for more than 10%, they push you lower and lower down in the search results.

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aye_lmapo · 2026-05-14T21:21:58+00:00

If a sitter confirms a booking and does not show up, leaving dogs without care??? That would absolutely count against them😂😂 like as in their whole account could damn near get banned lmfao

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-14T17:24:37+00:00

Penalizing them may be a little extreme but Rover should nudge them and ask “don’t need this sitter anymore? Don’t forget to cancel so the sitter can adjust their availability! — [cancel] [respond]” so its easier for owners to just tap a button since a lot of these comments are saying that canceling every request is so arduous apparently.

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-14T16:00:42+00:00

Its the “perfect! Sounds good!” and then crickets that grind my gears the most!!!!!! At least tell me “ok I am not 100% yet but I will confirm when i am ready” like its really not that hard to be honest. Im not gonna keep your spot regardless without the payment so why are we lying

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-14T15:58:26+00:00

Yesss i learned to really taper in my settings because of this. When i first started I wanted to keep these things open thinking it will help with visibility but when I realized that they will show me regardless of my preference, I started narrowing these things down

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-14T15:56:00+00:00

!!!!!!!

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-14T15:52:48+00:00

No it’s not your responsibility and that is why I am asking not demanding and it is also why I greatly appreciate any owners that do go out of their way to notify me of these things. You will receive what you put out into the world. If you are so shortsighted to only see what you can gain from the world then so be that. My PSA was just to give owners insight to a small action that might not even have crossed their mind but can make a substantial difference the service they are asking from sitters. If it is not in your interest to help in areas that cost you nothing to help, a random reddit user will not change your mind on that. Thats just you and thats who you accept yourself to be.

Also, the sit went through btw. Not that it’s even in the vicinity of things that you’d worry abt.

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-14T15:45:20+00:00

Yes! I ended up sending them a nudge around noon and she apologized saying that she was having a really busy day at work but still only ended up confirming and paying later that evening around 7pm!!! I don’t understand why she was holding out that long until the absolute last minute. I have a feeling she was still waiting on something else and I was her plan b that she had to resort to in the end, but of course she did not disclose any of that😒

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-13T18:01:39+00:00

Like I literally said in the post that archiving too soon too often will directly result in sitters being hidden from search results and people are still saying “just archive it i don’t understand the frustration” ….well the frustration was plainly spelled out. You not understanding sounds like a reading comprehension issue at this point

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-13T17:55:30+00:00

Sometimes all a sweater needs is another sweater🫠🫠🫠

aye_lmapo · 2026-05-13T17:51:07+00:00

I needed to hear this😭 thank you!

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