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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My best friend is like this. She’s a people pleaser, but also gets overwhelmed easily. Example, she offered to watch a friend’s 2 young kids 10-12 hours a day, 7 days a week for $300 a month (yes, really) and then immediately got overwhelmed and quit. I think she believes she needs to go to extremes to keep people liking her and continuing to be her friend. I’ve learned to decline any offers from her because she’ll get upset and bail (she’s offered to clean my house, watch my kids, throw me a baby shower, etc I just tell her it’s not needed).

BUT that being said, the dog care seems like a LOT. 2 walks a day plus being letting out twice a day is a lot to take on for someone who is not a professional pet sitter. Are you paying her professional sitting rates, or what you would pay a college student? That much service would run probably $150-200 a day for a professional (if my memory is right, sitting is usually $100 for an overnight plus $25 per walk for a professional service). If you’re trying to pay her $50 a day, yea, I’d be upset too. [/quote]

Goodness, no! The going rate is $50-75 on Rover. And what OP's asking for is standard care for that price.

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I just checked Rover for rates and this is what I found:

$60 for overnight only, unless it’s over 7 days, then it’s $90/night.

Plus $25 for each additional walk during the day.

So if OP is out of town for more than a week, $90 a night plus 2, $25 walks a day is $140 per day. Way more than $50-75. 
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Sorry, this is not true. I use rover frequently. Every dog sitter I have hired has been $50-65 and all have happily given my dog two walks minimum, sometimes more, unless it was a snow storm or a super flood rain. Many rover sitters live in apts or condos where there isn’t some yard to have the dog run around. [/quote]

Staying in your home or the sitters? House sitting is much more expensive than boarding. Also, who knows if they're doing the walks. I knew a woman who boarded dogs in her home and promised 3 walks a day. Those poor dogs were kept in crates the entire time, only let into the yard to poop. [/quote]

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