u/Lacroix24601

I want to tell a client that I’m dropping her, but it’s not her fault. She lives in a building where I used to have several clients, however, they all moved to different areas of my state. (some of whom are close enough that I can still retain them as clients.)

Her building is too far away for me to really want to make the trip just for her dogs. I end up losing money, so it doesn’t really make any fiscal sense for me to continue working for that client. I just don’t know how to word it.

And is 30 days enough notice?

My son recently took up bowling as his sport, we’ve been going to either aloma or boardwalk. Today, we went to Aloma and they’re transitioning all their lanes to string bowling, which is such a disappointment. The pin physics make it a totally different game. Makes me worried bc the same company owns a ton of alleys including boardwalk. 😬

I guess I just wanted to whine. lol. But if there are any independent alleys around, would love to hear about it bc Google is fairly useless.

Is not trust myself. lol. I have air tags on my client keys (2 sets split up between keys and fobs) bc why not. Today I went to grab one of the key sets and I couldn’t find it anywhere. I began to panic and then I was like, I need to use the app. Turns out they were in a pocket jn a pocket of my purse, which I usually never do except I had this emergency call for a client and I just grabbed what I needed and ran out. Definitely worth the $20 or whatever I paid for it. Lol.

My husband can’t quite appreciate this accomplishment, since he doesn’t do any kind of pet care, so I wanted to celebrate here.

I’ve been doing drop ins for a dog for almost 2 years. In that entire time he has pretty much hated me. He lets me take him out to his backyard, but he doesn’t really like when I pet him (but he allows it when I give him a treat) and gets nervous when I get near him outside. Well today, I let him outside in his backyard as usual, and I went over to him not too terribly far. I wanted him to go pee, and he actually laid down on his side and also let me pet him. I feel like I won the lottery. Lol.

Who knows if this will happen again, lol, but I’m going to enjoy it for today

A quick background: I service an area that’s a little annoying to get to, but not terrible so when I had two clients move to that area, I kept them on. Both clients are moving (well, one already did and the other is moving Friday) out of state. Since I was losing both, I’ve decided to not cover that area any more, I simply don’t want to work it.

Issue: a neighbor of one of them has asked me for TWO YEARS about my availability/prices etc. every time I’ve given him the answers and then I never hear from him again. Well, today he asks me about my services and I tell him that, sorry I’m not servicing this area any longer, but I can recommend other walkers. Then he goes total victim mode. “I really needed you to start this week” and “why would you say you work this area and now you don’t”.

OMG. I was calm and said “my schedule has changed since we spoke in December of last year. If you want recommendations for other service providers, please let me know”

But my god. I’m not here waiting and holding my breath for this goober to figure his $hit out.

(No specific $$ mentioned)

In the past my cat clients have always been in SFH with their own collection bin. But recently, I have cats in apartments and condos. I currently have two weeks with two cats (started 4 days ago). Super easy sit (drop ins, they hate humans. Like, a lot. lol), but they live in an apartment building with a dumpster, there’s no bin for collection (like a house would have).

The issue is that the dumpster is nowhere near the building, so I can’t walk to it, and it’s in the opposite direction of the exit. Once I get into my car it takes about 5-6 minutes to get to the dumpster and throw away the cat poop. It doesn’t sound like a lot but jt adds up after 14 days. I have one building that i have clients in and while I only have dogs now, depending on where they are in the building it can be a 10 minute walk, depending on how the elevator is treating you. I was thinking I’d add a nominal charge for those that don’t have a collection bin at their house but then what if one client only takes 3 minutes and another clients 3x that.

I just don’t know how to handle it going forward. It’s just enough time and out of my way-ness that I have to consider that extra so many minutes for booking purposes.

Just curious as to what you all do or if you just say that it’s all part of the sit.

I’m so sad. I’m losing 3 clients next month. They’re all moving out of state bc my state is too expensive to live in. Fun times. (Well one client is a doctor and they got matched up north. But the others are high tailing it outta here)

Anyway, I wanted to gift them something, but small bc obvs, they’re packing up their houses and the last thing they need is one more thing to pack. I have a cute photo of each dog to print and make into a magnet. But I wanted something else.