When I make travel plans for the family one of my first agenda items is making plans for pet care.  Our dogs gleefully go to Sheyenne River Kennels – they love it there.  I do believe they look forward to our vacations so they can have their own little vacation at the kennels.

But care for our cats is another story.  I leave them in their palace – the place they allow us to live with them in.  This requires me to find someone reliable to check on them daily.  Historically, this has been easier said than done.

I think most folks think cats are fairly self sufficient because they don’t need to be let out into the yard or walked, but that is a fallacy.  Cats can be a needy lot.  They need to be checked in on or they go about creating mayhem in the house.  They need some human interaction when they feel like some attention.  I worry about them getting sick when I am gone.  I worry about the caretaker accidentally letting them out or locking one of them up in a room for a week without realizing it.

Thinking about all the things that could possibly go wrong with the cats makes me anxious about traveling.  So each trip I have tried to find a better solution than the last.  This year I finally found a reliable enduring solution that I can feel good about.  That solution is Anything but Alligators Pet Sitting.  The owner/operator of this service is a lovely, well-organized woman named Leslie.

If you are interested in a reliable pet sitter, visit Anything but Alligators’ Facebook page  and send Leslie a message.  Her rates are very reasonable and you will travel worry-free with her on the job.  I am thrilled to have found her and I know it is just a matter of time until the cats look forward to our vacations.  I can live with that. 😉

Day one thousand four hundred and seventy of the new forty – obla di obla da

Ms. C