Dog jumping up

[skinnydipper]

When people are asking for advice, it would be helpful if they give all the relevant information about the situation in the original post so that those trying to help have the full picture.

 

[Clodagh]

Some people will do anything to save a buck. Imagine being imprisoned in a cage for 23 hours a day, ok maybe only 22, with random barely known people turning up at intervals. I’d be jumping up.
I’ve always said I’d never use a dog sitter (no offence those on here) and I see my stance on that will have to change as my mum gets older but also if I were a dog sitter I couldn’t do that job. I’d have to tell the owners my opinion.

 

[LadyGascoyne]

I'm not staying there, their plans for the dogs when they went away fell through last minute so I agreed I could fit in early morning breakfast and toilet break, and bed time toilet break, other friends and colleagues are popping in and out during the day to check on them etc and I walk them each lunch time ( obviously they need more than 1 walk per day but that's all she's paying me for)

So they’re not locked up in a little cage usually? It is just whilst the owner is away?

Although that is still utterly awful, I had visions of them living their whole lives in a crate.

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Some people will do anything to save a buck. Imagine being imprisoned in a cage for 23 hours a day, ok maybe only 22, with random barely known people turning up at intervals. I’d be jumping up.
I’ve always said I’d never use a dog sitter (no offence those on here) and I see my stance on that will have to change as my mum gets older but also if I were a dog sitter I couldn’t do that job. I’d have to tell the owners my opinion.

I can't imagine that there is no availability in boarding kennels reasonably near to OP. Goodness knows what the owners were thinking of. I'm afraid that couldn't have been party to enabling the dogs to.be left alone in the house overnight, no matter how much money i was offered to do so. I do hope that this isn't going on for longer than the weekend.

 

[slimjim86]

So they’re not locked up in a little cage usually? It is just whilst the owner is away?

Although that is still utterly awful, I had visions of them living their whole lives in a crate.

They are crated most of the day when the owners are working, but there shift patterns can vary quite a bit so some days they are out less than others.

 

[Clodagh]

They are crated most of the day when the owners are working, but there shift patterns can vary quite a bit so some days they are out less than others.

And then all night as well I presume. Owners should swap them for soft toys.

 

[Jenko109]

Oh the poor things.

So they have to stay in a cage pretty much all day, bar a lunch time walk and a few toilet breaks.

Here's me feeling bad on the one day a month that my dogs get left for the day, having had a long, off lead walk for roughly an hour and a half in the morning and someone in for a toilet break at lunch. NOT in crates and left perhaps 8-3.

I literally spend the day checking the camera on and off all day, worrying that they're lonely without me Thankfully they are all mature and just sleep, but it doesn't stop me feeling on edge that day.

The thought of leaving them in a cage all day makes me feel quite sick.