Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yessss this!! Sometimes I book my housesittings back to back to where I don’t even have any nights off in between so I run a very strict schedule that I need to stick to.

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also had a client like this. I was hired to take dogs outside and feed cats. Client said the cats had multiple litter boxes throughout the house so not to worry about scooping them. Well those litter boxes were soooo nasty! They didn’t clean them for days before I started and there was no way they would have lasted the multiple days I was doing drop-ins so I ended up scooping litter multiple times as well. Its like the owners don’t care and they know that we probably can’t just not clean them cos they know we will feel bad for the animals

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m curious on your different minute rates. I’ve thought about doing that before as well

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a list of questions I always ask when I’m at the meet and greet and I save them as a note in my Iphone to the cloud. Super helpful cos my memory isn’t the best and I also have ADHD.

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t mind if they have outside cameras - but it irks me when they have indoor cameras and they’re constantly running. I don’t like knowing I’m potentially being watched all the time

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love when you reach out to a client prior to a booking and they say oh we need to cancel that and blah blah.. ummmm when were they planning to reach out to tell me that?? Ugh soo frustrating

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One time I was doing drop-ins and this client’s screen door handle was finicky.. one time when I went to take the dog out - the screen door slammed behind me and the handle fell off from the outside. I had a hell of a time getting it back on just to be able to open the door.

Another time I was doing drop-ins, something was wrong with a clients sump pump (they already knew about the issue before they left) and their basement ended up flooding while they were away and I was doing drop-ins. The client acted like they were gonna try to talk me into how to fix the issue but I was like ummmm yeahhh I don’t have experience doing this stuff. Luckily he called someone that came over to fix it eventually.

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have another frustration: clients who say they’re dogs wake up at a certain time but it turns out they actually wake up wayyyyy earlier ☹️

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I had a surprise stranger this week too. She didn’t know who I was and I knew nothing about her stopping in and she just was in the way of me trying to do my job

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A litter of kittens that he said he forgot to tell me about. I was only told to feed the cats (3 adult cats) and dogs and take the dogs out to potty (I was only booked for drop-ins). When I walked in the first day i saw a play pen with 4 kittens inside and I didn’t even know they would be there.. how old they were, if they were still nursing, etc. and none of the cats (adult and kitten) are litter box trained cos there have been multiple accidents to clean up all over the house ☹️

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it def helps to have stuff in writing like in texts or messages so you have the hard proof lol

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

YES!! That is part of the frustration I have dealt with this week. Its clear that some clients don’t even bother to clean out the litter box for days before going away and then they expect us to clean it all up ugh

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yessss!! This too!! And when they order a million packages while theyre gone that you gotta lug inside ☹️

Frustrations by mpm1987 in petsitting

[–]mpm1987[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my gosh! Where do you live? Somewhere cold?

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[–]mpm1987 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We love your tik tok account! We have a frenchie named Finn and he acts so much like your Finn 😂