How was your 4th? Any interesting stories?
A frog and a toad to say hello to you!
Like many pet care providers I was busy with drop ins yesterday/weekend.
I had 13 drop ins for dogs, honestly wasn't bad, it was spaced out enough were I didn't feel rushed getting from one house to the next.
Here in Maryland, the heat wave has not been fun, so adjusted to the weather in how I care for the pets, honestly that is what made pet care mire unbearable than anything.
We had a big storm last night, I was out driving in it with 5 drop ins still to go, pelted with heavy rain and hail, it did feel pretty dangerous driving in it. Many trees had fallen over.
Combined with the fireworks, I had walked in to 2 of the houses with a lot of pee and poop with scared dogs, but happy to see me, and get some comfort.
Last drop in of the night 10pm, the whole neighborhood had a power outage. Cleaning up pee and poop armed with only my phone flashlight.
Storm had subsided mostly with only a light drizzle, a very sweet affectionate dog to cuddle in the warm, humid, house with a poop aroma wafting through the air lol.
On the way home, power lines had toppled on the highway, meaning I had to take a different route adding to my journey, half way home, I get a call from the owner, he has a lot of fish in the basement 🤯.
He was very nice, he didn't want to make it my problem, but I offered to go back, he explained he was batteries that can be turned on to provide oxygen to the fishtanks.
Went back, I hadn't been down in his basement, but honestly a pretty cool set up, like 6 big fish tanks with all sorts of fish.
Turned on the batteries for the fish headed home, got home like 11:30pm, now back it with my first drop in at 7am 😁.
The life of a pet are provider.
Oh, we had a nice chorus of frogs and toads with the fireworks after the storm too.
This southern toad and Eastern Spadefoot burrowing frog were having a 4th of July feast on a trail of ants by another clients garage 😋.
How was your 4ths?