When the staff’s away the cats will play!

Fetjse and her woofers Lilly and Lucy

Today I overheard the staff planning their summer vacation. Now, some pets might get a little peeved about this. NOT US. First of all, the Crawling Creature who is also now a Standing Creature will no doubt be going on this vacation thing with the staff. And that, my friends, is a vacation for Pugs and me. No one chasing after us, trying to grab our tails. Heaven!

The other reason we don’t mind it when the staff leaves is because Fetsje comes!

Fetsje is our petsitter. She and her team at Tenderpaws Petsitting come to see us every day when the staff is on vacation. They play with us, feed us and make sure the house is in order.

The staff moved here to Huntersville last year. They didn’t know anyone in town and one of their biggest concerns was who would take care of Pugsley and me when they were traveling. A local pet boarder told them about Fetsje so they checked her out. When they called her references, everyone RAVED about Fetsje and her team. In fact, one woman told the staff that one time Fetsje fired a client because they didn’t take good enough care of their pets! Now, I’m not sure if that’s an urban legend or not but you better believe my staff makes sure our house is clean and Pugs and I are well groomed before Fetsje shows up….they don’t want to get fired!

Fetsje always leaves a full daily report about everything we did while the staff was gone. Then, she asks that the staff call her when they get home so she knows that Pugs and I are back in safe hands.

So, as far as we’re concerned, those pesky staff members and the Crawling Creature can go out of town any time they want!

Who watches YOU when your staff is out of town?

Tagged as: petsitting, tenderpaws petsitting, vacation

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

Maggie May 22, 2010 at 2:27 am: We have four staff members sadly soon to be reduced to three but the benefit is that when any of them go on vacation there’s always someone left to take care of us. Also no crawling creatures to torture us.
Lilly and Lucy June 4, 2009 at 4:23 pm: Hi Romeo and Pugsley,

Thank you for the nice comments about our Mom.
She was grinning from ear to ear all day.
We saved our allowance again and a check is on the way for Angels for Animals.

Snuggles
Lilly and Lucy WOOF WOOF
Mishkat June 3, 2009 at 9:23 am: Our mom gets really nervous about leaving us too, so we don’t have a sitter. We wish Fetsje lived near us!
The Creek Cats June 2, 2009 at 7:06 pm: We can’t seem to get our staff to leave! They are too nervous about leaving us.

You guys are very lucky to have such a great sitter! If we had one like her then maybe our servants would feel safe enough to leave us!