I use a petsitter who comes to my home- it works out great! She comes 4 times per day- she is supposed to stay for an hour each time but she does end up staying much longer a lot of the time. She feeds them, changes their wee wee pads, replenishes the water, and plays with them. I visited a lot of different "doggy hotels" before I decided on this arrangement and was not pleased with any of them. I like that my dogs are in their own environment, they get 1 on 1 attention, they are not thrown in with a bunch of unknown dogs, they do not need to get shots that I don't believe in just to be boarded, they don't come home smelling terrible. I call my sitter almost every day to get an update, she will also send pictures and texts sometimes with updates and she always calls right away with any questions. An example of why I think the individualized attention is so important- last time I went away Chloe had just gotten over conjunctivitis. A few days into my trip, the sitter called to say that Chloe's eye had started to get slightly red again- I had her restart the meds immediately (as had been the vets original instructions), within a few days the eye was perfect again. In a kennel situation, they likely wouldn't have noticed so soon and the infection could have gotten worse before anything was done. Most importantly- when I come home my dogs act like I was never gone, they are in the same routine and totally well adjusted. After using a sitter I would never have it any other way.
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