I want to make this short.
Basically we decided to hire a house sitter to care for our dogs, cats, and frogs (yes we have frogs) and watch the house during a recent vacation. Usually we board the dogs and let the other animals fend for themselves. This time we were going to be gone a little longer than usual and getting a house sitter seemed to be the perfect solution. We hired a sweet college girl. A friend of a friend. A kid that seemed genuinely nice and responsible. We simply asked that she feed the dogs, let them out to potty, feed the other animals and hang out. We told her she was welcome to have a friend over to keep her company.
Note to self: you are NOT a good judge of character.
Ok-long story short. We return home. We call the sitter from the road and tell her we will be home between 5 and 6 pm. We tell her she can leave that afternoon after letting the dogs out. We pull into our driveway and 2 boys run out of the house with trash bags. We find a total of 6 kids in our house. There is the smell of marijuana and dog shit in my house. The trash is full of empty liquor bottles and marijuana ashes. There is dog poop all over my dining room, on the floor, the rug, the Christmas tree skirt, the drapes and on one present.
Oh how I cried. Oh how I scrubbed. One of my dogs hasn't slept in her bed (in our room) since we returned-almost 1 month ago.
So we think we may not go the dog sitter route again.
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