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Has anyone boarded or had a dog sitter for over a week watch your dogs before? How long did it take you to find someone/somewhere you trusted to watch them? Did you go with a boarding/kennel or dog sitter? Did your dog have any special needs? If so, was that a big issue in finding someone?
I'm trying to go to Germany and than Ireland in Jan/Feb 2015 to visit my brother and then my aunt, but I'm having trouble with the dog situation. My sister will hopefully be coming with me, David doesn't know what his housing situation will be like but I doubt it will allow dogs at that point, and my usual go to can't watch them either at that time. Obviously I have plenty of time to find someone, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
For one, I don't know that they could stay here with the dogs as I havent talked to the apartment manager yet (though she's generally pretty easy going, so that is a possibility). Then are the dogs special needs. Artimis takes a little bit to warm up to people and Talon can be a jerk face to other dogs. Artimis at least I'm not as worried about if we can do a dog-sitter situation, he's been left with people he knew/semi-knew and did great and he warms up to new people as long as they let him come to them fairly easily. On the other hand at a boarding kennel I'm worried he'll be horribly stressed out the entire time.
Talon on the other hand can be a handful and needs someone who knows how to handle him. So if we do a dog sitter they need to be able to know how to handle him and I worry he wouldn't get enough of an outlet for his energy/needs. At a boarding facility he get's stressed a bit with barking and can be a gate guarder with dogs so I don't know how that would go.
Ugh, just thinking about it makes me want to stay here and not go, but I'd love to be able to see my brother and Germany/Ireland.
I'll be going to Illinois somewhere in October for a few days so that could be a good trial period. Though I have people to watch them if I can't find anyone by that time.
I'm trying to go to Germany and than Ireland in Jan/Feb 2015 to visit my brother and then my aunt, but I'm having trouble with the dog situation. My sister will hopefully be coming with me, David doesn't know what his housing situation will be like but I doubt it will allow dogs at that point, and my usual go to can't watch them either at that time. Obviously I have plenty of time to find someone, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
For one, I don't know that they could stay here with the dogs as I havent talked to the apartment manager yet (though she's generally pretty easy going, so that is a possibility). Then are the dogs special needs. Artimis takes a little bit to warm up to people and Talon can be a jerk face to other dogs. Artimis at least I'm not as worried about if we can do a dog-sitter situation, he's been left with people he knew/semi-knew and did great and he warms up to new people as long as they let him come to them fairly easily. On the other hand at a boarding kennel I'm worried he'll be horribly stressed out the entire time.
Talon on the other hand can be a handful and needs someone who knows how to handle him. So if we do a dog sitter they need to be able to know how to handle him and I worry he wouldn't get enough of an outlet for his energy/needs. At a boarding facility he get's stressed a bit with barking and can be a gate guarder with dogs so I don't know how that would go.
Ugh, just thinking about it makes me want to stay here and not go, but I'd love to be able to see my brother and Germany/Ireland.
I'll be going to Illinois somewhere in October for a few days so that could be a good trial period. Though I have people to watch them if I can't find anyone by that time.