[yorkietalkjilly]

I would absolutely leave my dog with my son(and have) as he's just as careful a dog owner/guardian as I am and always has been since his teenage years so I totally understand trusting your grand-daughter. But most people seem to use a casual friend, family member, neighbor or someone they work with or find online or by referral as a dogsitter and I just could not ever do that - wouldn't even let most of my family members or friends! hehe I have to know that person and their sense of dog-knowledge and how they think about dogs and if they have a certain sense of dog-paranoia for the small dogs and the extra care they require. Some of them are easily intimidated and anxious and others are sneaky, cagey and potentially in some degree of danger with just a regular dogsitter. My dogsitter has to be just like me - overly cautious and super-vigilant and there aren't many people like that around who are free to dogsit. I often wonder how many tiny dogs actually have escaped while being dogsat(is that even a word?) and are chased, enticed with food and caught or returned by others while their owners are away! Maybe not many but even one - if it's mine - is way too much.