A Phoenix Dog Walker once told me that a dog sitter is the most important person you can hire.  Why? Because your pets are like the women in your house.  If the women are not happy, then no one is happy.  To hire a good pet sitter means to invest in your pets happiness and therefore invest in your household’s happiness.

Having two dogs has been frustrating at times because we come home to a house full of rolled out toilet paper and ripped up magazines.  I recall one day coming home from a crazy day at soccer practice where we did nothing but soccer conditioning drills.  The dogs had taken the toilet paper and spread it all around the house, the newspapers were torn to shreds throughout the kitchen, and the new couch was covered in dog hair with the torn up cushoins  on the floor.  The cats did not have to go out, yet they were bored and frustrated.  Because they are animals, they simply cannot express themselves in a way we understand and they do weird things to grab our attention.

Now had we hired a cat sitter then our pets would not been nearly as frustrated.  Not that they don’t have the ability to hold their bladders all day, but really, who wants to be shut up inside all day long?  Day after day of being shut up leads to unhappy and unhealthy pets.  Unhealthy dogs lead to frustrated pet owners and so the cycle continues.