[nagdu] pupp sitters

Mon Jun 28 12:37:41 UTC 2010

Tami,

It will be hard to leave Monty behind, but it is definitely the right thing 
to do.  The saga of my accident a few weeks ago is still continuing.  I'm 
not sure that I'm going to have the energy to run, run, run like I have at 
past conventions.  I'm planning on taking it easy, which is yet another 
reason that it's probably better that Monty stays here.  I thought about 
canceling my plans to go, but I've been looking forward to this for a long 
while and so has Kiddo.

Even without my low energy and pain, there is no way that I could possibly 
go to everything I wanted to or meet up with everyone I had hoped to.  This 
will be my fourth convention and it hasn't happened yet! *smile*

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] pupp sitters

> Julie,
>
> Thanks for sharing that information.  I knew you were debating, and tha 
> tas
> an owner-trainer you would have to find non-guide-dog-expert boarding.
> /smile/  To be honest, had I known what I know now, I would have left 
> Mitzi
> behind for my first convention, when she was about Monty's age and
> experience.  /smile/  To be honest, I was really, really relieved to
> determine over the few weeks after I got home that I hadn't managed to 
> ruin
> the poor, teender, newly "gratduated" poodle child by that little piece of
> misjudement.  Whew!  Still, we did both learn a lot, if not what we had
> planned on (I talked it all over with her, of course, and I'm sure she was
> up on the plan).  We ended up not meeting many, many of the people we had
> planned to meet, but we met a lot of random great people anyway, so it's 
> not
> like it was a wash....  Still, if I'd known then...  /smile/
>
> I think the beauty of a smaller town is that you have a better chance of
> *knowing* the people you're leaving your newly minted owner-trained guide
> dog with.  Well, I've spent enough time at the dog park with my high 
> energy
> girl to know people who occasionally board their dogs, so I get really 
> good
> information from them about various options.  I was really surprised when 
> I
> started looking into it for future reference that the prices even for the
> close-to-downtown neighborhood I used to live in were not any more than 
> what
> you quote.  Weird, huh?  They're actually more out here in the 'burbs (or
> weird cross between 'burbs and boonies that is Aloha).  So is grooming!
> Yikes!
>
> Anyway, I am decision free for another year, but I always like hearing how
> other people decide when it comes to dogs and convention.  I always start 
> on
> the assumption that I will be going next year, with Mitzi.  Well, the
> current "next year" she will be 5, and she's already a completely 
> different
> dog (the same dog, but better) than she was at barely 2...  After living
> through Mitzi at 1, she seemed super duper mature at 2.  /lol/  Now I 
> know!
>
> Have fun at convention!  I wish I could see you -- and a whole lot of 
> other
> people -- there again.  But there's always next year...  /grin/
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Julie J
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:31 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] pupp sitters
>
> Marsha,
>
> Thank you so much for posting this!  I have also decided to leave Monty
> behind while I attend convention.  It was not an easy decision and I 
> wavered
>
> back and forth for weeks.
>
> He will be staying with a woman who does boarding in her home.  So there
> will be several dogs that are allowed to run freely together, pending they
> are able to play nicely! *smile*  Monty has stayed there several times and
> loves it.  She charges $10 per night.  I provide dog food and take his
> crate.
>
> The vet here also does boarding.  They will provide food if you don't mind
> what they feed or you can take your own, but there isn't a discount.  They
> charge $8.50 per night.  This is the one dog, one kennel, no mixing, 
> little
> individual attention sort of scenario.
>
> I have also hired a pet sitter in the past.  I paid her $4 per visit. 
> Each
> visit was approx 20 minutes and I would have her come as many times a day 
> as
>
> I needed.  So if I was working unexpected hours that day I could just have
> her come once.  The pet sitter was pre-guide dog.
>
> BTW I live in a very small town in the mid west.  From what I have heard
> from others the prices here are very low.
>
> HTH
> Julie
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marsha Drenth" <marsha.drenth at gmail.com>
> To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:07 AM
> Subject: [nagdu] pupp sitters
>
>
>> Hello listers,
>>
>>
>>
>> In a little over a week, my guide will be staying with a pup sitter while
>> I
>> attend the national convention. The pup sitter is a former sitter for the
>> school I received my pup from. She will be watching Emma for 10 days. So
>> here is my question, What is the going rate for kenneling a pup? Or for
>> pup
>> sitters? I have explained to her that I am by no means rich, but would
>> like
>> to pay her something. Kenneling is very expensive, so I know it has to be
>> way under that. Any ideas please let me know. If you feel more 
>> comfortable
>> emailing me off list, please do at marsha.drenth at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> marsha
>>
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