Dog Sitting For A Friend? Top 10 Tips For Fun, Safety And Success #216
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
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Have you ever had a friend or relative ask if you could look after their dog for the weekend or a short time while they are away? I'm sharing my top 10 tips for dog sitting in your home to help everyone have a good time. And if someone is going to be a pet sitter for you, the tips will also help! Very recently, I had the good fortune to look after a friend's dog and my brother's dog, and my tips focus on creating success and safety for everyone.
In the episode you'll hear:
• What you need to know before a visiting dog arrives in your home.
• The reasons pet sitting might not be a good idea.
• How to plan for the safety and security of everyone.
• Getting to know the dog you will be looking after.
• The things to discover about the dog who will be in your care.
• What to give the dog's people so they can help you prepare.
• How to create psychological and physical safety for a visiting dog.
• About planning your time with a dog who is a guest.
• Why to do a sleep test for the dog you are minding.
• The importance of daily communication with the dog's person.
• How to make a visiting dog feel special.
Resources For Your Visiting Dog's Person:
1. Crate Games Online - https://get.crategames.com/
2. Learn How to Play ItsYerChoice - https://recallers.com/iycsummit-join/
3. Teaching a Dog to Sit - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/155/
4. Teaching a Dog to Down - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/145/
Resources:
1. YouTube Playlist: Living with Multiple Dogs Tips with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy2ee0fquucowgCTcl1kCdO-
2. Podcast Episode 32: 20 Easy Ways to Exercise Your Dog at Home - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/32/
3. YouTube Playlist: Fearful Dogs Help with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy0KAsqgnkMWv0v-5JGjNQG_
4. Podcast Episode 48: Potty Train Your Puppy in a Week (Easy 3 Step Process) - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/48/
5. YouTube Playlist: Exercising Your Dog's Body and Mind: Tips and Games with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy1ISzbaoCNh0NyLg3qgDG58
6. Podcast Episode 200: Solve Your Dog's Separation Anxiety With FRIDA: Expanding Calm With Functional Relaxation - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/200/
7. YouTube Playlist: The Emotional State of Dogs with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy29pv3_9b7DZdMFJL9ZJPMy
8. Podcast Episode 112: Stressed Dog? How Trigger Stacking Might Be Putting Your Dog Over Threshold - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/112/
9. YouTube Video: How To Get Your Dog To Listen Outside Off Leash (Step By Step Guide) - https://youtu.be/Ei0lWFyAE50
10. YouTube Playlist: Dog Training Games with Susan Garrett - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLphRRSxcMHy2TzttCtZVFwzwMGayAsaYe
11. Blog Post: All About Dogs Sleeping in the Bedroom - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2020/03/dogs-sleeping-in-the-bedroom/
12. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/qOqhcy8nQ-4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever had a friend or a relative say, hey, can you look after my dog for the weekend? |
| 0:05.2 | And you kind of thought, I guess I have to. I don't know if I should. Well, today is your |
| 0:12.0 | lucky day because in today's podcast, I'm going to share 10 tips that I put together |
| 0:17.5 | for looking after somebody's dog in your home. |
| 0:21.6 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. |
| 0:32.6 | Welcome to Shape by Dog. |
| 0:34.6 | And over the last few weeks, I've had the good fortune of looking after |
| 0:39.0 | not one, but two dogs that were not mine. One was a very good friend of mine. It was a golden |
| 0:46.7 | doodle named Rosie. She was with me for four days and she was around here for about a month |
| 0:51.4 | because she was in being trained with our good friend |
| 0:54.8 | Linda Horton Hill. The second was a rescue beagle that my brother adopted about a year and a half |
| 1:01.5 | ago and he was going away for four days for Canada Day with his family. And so, I got the beagle. |
| 1:10.4 | Now, taking on somebody's dog in your home could be the recipe for a huge disaster. |
| 1:18.6 | It could be the recipe for really causing stress and anxiety to your own family or your family |
| 1:25.9 | pet. |
| 1:26.2 | So, I have put together a list of 10 things that I think |
| 1:30.8 | should make it easy. Now, you may or may not go through all 10, but I think they're all very |
| 1:35.3 | valid. One of them actually includes 14 items, so it might be more than 10, just saying. |
| 1:40.1 | The first three I will do before the dog gets there. Point number one, you need to plan for the |
| 1:45.9 | safety and security of your own family and your own family pets. So, if you have a cat and this |
| 1:53.1 | dog happens to not like cats, what's that going to look like? I think you, unless the cat is |
| 1:59.2 | confined to one area of the house, I would say, you know, |
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