Nate Armbruster
Finding someone you trust to watch your dog can be a case of trial and error. Trusting someone to care for your pet, and enter your home while you’re gone can be nerve-wracking. What if they break something, or even worse, steal something?
The best-case scenario is they’ll do a bunch of their laundry using your washer and dryer. This is exactly what happened to this person in a post on Reddit.
A dog owner is conflicted over whether it’s appropriate for the dog sitter they hired because they did an “insane amount of laundry” without asking while they’re away
Here’s What They Said:
OP Explains:
Commenters Were Torrn On Wether Or Not OP Should Say Anything To The Dog Sitter
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OP Updated Evryone In An Edit To Their Original Post:
Edit: Thank you to all who chimed in. I appreciate the range of inputs on this that really goes to show there is no standard approach to house sitting and laundry which means the responsibility was on me to set clear expectations even if I think it is excessive.
I have sent her a quick “oops, I forgot to mention I’ve had some plumbing issues recently sorted out so please be on the lookout for backups or leaks” text and will politely bring up that the laundry is available to her, I’d just request that she keep it to 3-4 loads total when I am back home as long as everything else at home is all good. I am undecided on whether it should be included in a review, but I will not be reporting anything to Rover or risking her income because of laundry facilities.
In A Second And Final Edit, They Explain More Details After Reading The Comments
Edit 2: Because comments still seem to be trickling in. I am home now, my pets are safe and healthy, and don’t seem distressed so I’m happy that they were well taken care of. My house, not so much. Thankfully it is mild and no damage was done that I can tell, but my back door was left unlocked when no one was home, and the door from my house into the garage was left open which could have hurt my cat as there are chemicals, etc out there and she knew he shouldn’t be in the garage.
I discovered that she’d clearly been using my car and now have a low tire warning, but at least she filed the tank up. The lint trap of my dryer was never emptied and after 14 loads through the week the buildup was significant to the point that I need to clean out the vent I’m lucky the machine wasn’t damaged or there wasn’t a fire.
There was a massive amount of loose food and trash in my recycling bin so I got to spend some time scooping mashed potatoes out of the bottom of the bin. That’s not a complete list of the weird and disappointing things I discovered, but the rest is fairly mundane in comparison. Oh and out of all that laundry? None of it was the guest bed sheets or the towels so that theory was unfortunately wrong.
She has ignored my texts and phone calls asking to speak to her, I haven’t written a review yet because I felt it was only fair to talk and understand her perspective but the fact that she is ignoring me tells me she knows she overstepped appropriate behavior.
