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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You should also consider that dogs sometimes find and provoke a skunk in your yard. At 5:30 am. After you've been out with friends until 1 am. And the stench is overwhelming. And you have to clean them with concoctions of peroxide, soap, and baking soda while they reek up your whole house, including your person. And you hope but aren't certain that the skunk is off your property. And you have to go to work.
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Why? Why does it always go down this way? Last time it was after I had killed a few beers and I had to get my wife to go to the 24 hr Shoppers for peroxide. We left for holidays a couple of days later, felt bad for the house/dog sitters because the place still reeked.
We "self-insure" for anything catastrophic for the dogs, money is put away for anything that might come up. Daycare we don't do more than a day a week, Friday is the best because then they sleep in on Saturday morning.
Between my flexible work schedule and kid's school schedule, I feel lucky that my pups don't spend more than 4 hours or so alone any day. We have done 7 hours in the past when I had to work more and they were fine. Also, we have two and I am of the belief that they entertain each other better than just leaving one dog alone all day. But twice the dogs is a bit more work.
Another consideration is vacations, we are lucky to have family that loves to dog sit since they can't have their own dogs right now. But boarding can add up quickly if you need to go that route.