I feel like a traveling salesman...But with the number of animals that we work with on a daily basis and the events that transpire when dealing with characters, knuckleheads, lazybones, princesses, and spazz attacks, pills, pugs, and puppies, I'd liken my past few days to that more of a traveling circus!

 

I had said to myself, something strange is happening because there had been an great influx of business as we approached the weekend of Feruary 14th. I couldn't understand why. Had winter break started? Was it just a coincidence? Then much to my surprise, do I realize that all the lovebirds are going away for Valentines Day! (Don't worry. I realized this around the 7th or 8th so I can't get in too much trouble for not knowing such an important day was upon us. FYI, it was plenty of time to get Meg flowers, a card, some chocolate, and a SHAM-WOW!. -- Hey, when your married, romance is buried staunchly in the heart of reality. We live in a zoo, we have a need for paper towels ala bulk...or...a SHAM-WOW!) 

 

But I digress.

 

The point I was getting at was that we had a blast of overnights, weekend visits, and regular daily sessions that had our heads spinning a bit.

 

This is how it all started...

 

 Jonesy & Nieve called for an overnight session on Th, F, Sat but both Rover and Buddie and Emmie had requested overnights starting Friday, so while Meg went to Rover's for Friday, I went to Jonesy & Nieve's for Thursday, then after negotiating an alternative for them in light of our unavailability on Friday, went to Buddie and Emmie's, then back to Jonesy and Nieve's for Saturday night. Now Meg is starting at Annie and Jai Jai's on Monday for the next week plus, so I will be changing over to Rover's for Sunday night so that she can have a night home with the Pigs before she heads out. When I finish with Rover's care on Tuesday, I will head home for a brief siesta, then off to our new Dobi-Duo, Roxy & Franklin D. for Friday night, a day back home for Saturday, then back to Buddy and Emmie's on Sunday for the entire following week. As Meg winds down with Annie and Jai Jai on the 23rd, she will switch out with me at Buddy and Emmie's so that I can begin an overnight session with Sandy and Bear in Simsbury through the 1st of March! Crazy times but we'll take such good fortune!

 

So some of you may have seen me recently with a newly installed beard (I'm sorry if I frightened you) - but you see that it is a result of a two-fold circumstance. One, I haven't had much time for self grooming...and two, it was damn cold out there for awhile! I speak for all of our daily piggleby's when I say, I hope that groundhog was drunk when he thought he saw his shadow. C'mon Spring!

 

So this is a weekend in the life of a couple of pet sitters. It was funny, because as we approached the crest of this busy weekend, we had an interview with a friend who's very interested in working for us. We want her to enjoy it, but have to, of course, stress the rigors that may beinvolved, and to see her eyes widen as we took her through a not-so-hypothetical scenario of what demands do sometimes arise, was a reaction worthy of a chuckle.. Its not all couch-potato stuff - those times come few and far between and you revel in them when they do come along. Meg and I put a combined 65,000 miles on the vehicles last year (we just calculated for tax season...that's no estimate)! That is exclaimed out of surprise - not complaint of course!  But alas, it matters none when you know that you get to work with all of these wonderful animals on a daily basis, and when you realize that they look forward to seeing you as much as you do them, and when you know you would gladly drive 100,000 miles a year for it all.

 

I'll check in soon with some pet profiles and a sad, beautiful story about one of our newest clients, Smokey Joe.

 

 

Chris ~