THE PET LADY....long story

Hello darling followers, happy Friday.  I always like to take the time to wish everyone a great weekend.  Today was the first official day of Fall for me as the temp finally got to sweater weather.  So I am happy about that.  I had mentioned earlier in the week that I would give you the details of the cat lady that we had stay here when we went to South Carolina.  I am going to give you the top things that really concerned me enough to come home early from vacation, not to mention the anxiety she caused from the start.  I should have known better and listened to that inner voice when I could not get a good feel for her even though she was recommended by a man that rob works with and we met her 3 times prior to our leaving.   I don't want to be mean or nitpick about things so here are the most concerning issues.  She told us that she would text us two times a day in the beginning just to let us know how things were going.  Concern:  We did not hear from her the first day so I had to text her.  When I didn't get a text back after a good wait, I called her and she sounded drunk or high on something.  I was pissed. Maybe I woke her up from a nap which we found out she did a lot.  Fine, you can nap but where are the dogs?  We found out that they were upstairs in our bedroom romping around with dirty paws on our new carpet all week.  She left them unattended way too much.  How do I know this?  We found a blue plastic thing in a million pieces all over the house that she obviously tried to clean up and not tell us about.  The dogs must have eaten most of it.  We still don't know what it is but I swear it's  the handle to the swiffer duster.   We spent over 100.00 bucks to have the carpet cleaned professionally this week and we installed it 6 months ago.  We asked her to wipe their paws and left towels in the garage but it is obvious to us that she disregarded our request.  She also spilled dog food about a quarter of a cup under the chair in my breakfast nook and it attracted ants from the garage through the kitchen in to that room.  Ants were everywhere.  We normally do not have ants.  Now we do, Rob and I spent hours cleaning that area and bought ant traps to capture any remaining ants.  How does someone spill dog food and just leave it?  How did she not see the army of ants climbing up the doorway of the garage?  It's the first thing I saw when I came home.  She used that door all week.  Concern:  Both dogs looked bigger like they had gained weight which tells us that they did not go out very much.  Georgia has been sick with diarrhea all week so I had to take her to the vet twice.   The second visit this morning was when they found that she has an infection in her anal gland which is from having diarrhea.  What did this woman feed these dogs?  What did they eat that was in pieces all over the house?  She took them off their routine and put them on hers which was nap all day, stay up all night.  My dogs did not go out until 8pm at night.  How do I know this?  We have cameras all around the outside of our house that we can access at all times from our phones.  We only saw  the dogs at 8pm playing in the dark.  What the frig?  No wonder why Georgia is sick.  She was off her schedule, stressed and eating whatever that woman gave them.   We asked her not to leave them in the crates for more that 4 hours at a time.  Caroline is not good  in the crate so we limit her time in there when we can.  She left them in the crate from 4:30 pm until 10:30 pm.  How do we know this?  The cameras record everything on the outside of our house.  We were not spying on her.  We were concerned about things at home.  She gave us reason to.   Rob and I came back to our hotel at 9:30 pm and hadn't heard anything from the pet lady so he checked the camera on the driveway and her car was still not there from 4:30pm.  Fine, I am sure the dogs are ok I said to myself.  No need for concern until 10:30pm when she was no where to be found.   I texted her and asked how things went with the dogs today?  She texted me back stating that they were fine.  How does she know?  She had not been there for 6 hours.  I was upset.  We then see her pull into the driveway a little while after that and she texted me saying that the dogs were kissing her and loving on her .  She was in my driveway just getting home after 6 hours, how could the dogs be kissing her...she had not gone into the house yet.  I see you lady, you are lying to me about the dogs kissing you and loving on you because you are in my driveway texting me.  WTF.  Don't lie, just be up front with me.  You had to go out longer than expected....just level with me.  She doesn't know that we know she lied because she did not know that we could access the cameras.  She knew we had them for security purposes.  I told her in the beginning that she was not prisoner to our home.  If she had to go out, go.  Just try not to leave them too long in the crate.    What else was she lying about all week.  We know our house and we know our pets.  She let the dogs on our bed and she let them sleep with her on the couch in the basement.  Our dogs have their own beds.  They do not sleep with us.  I know that people let their pets sleep with them and that is great but with the way that these 2 play, swim, run through the woods, get dirty, no way can they sleep in our bed.  I came home to stained, muddy, disgusting sheets.  I don't know what happen in my bed but it looked like a dirt bag slept in there.  She told me that she slept downstairs and brought her own sheets.  The amount of dirt and stains on the sheets told me that other things went on in there like possibly 2 unattended dogs with muddy paws were in my bed and possibly her too.    I bleached those things real good.   Anyway, there is a lot more but I don't want to be a total B.  We learned a great lesson here.  Go with your gut, listen to your inner voice when it comes to decisions about people and life things especially when it comes to your loved ones and your home.  sorry so long. 

   

Have a great weekend...what are your thoughts on this if you read it?  dawn xo