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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, May 12, 2025 - 12:34 pm 
RN If I find anything dead in my yard, I know who did it. My dogs are hunters for sure.
RN The kid who wants the room just texted me and asked if he could come at 3 instead of 5 to look at it tomorrow. So he's coming at 3. Jeez, I hope he takes it. I still have 2 months to make it through, and his rent would be a huge help. I can't believe my credit score went down 10 whole points just for using my credit card too much. It's not like I missed payments or anything. I even got a congratulatory email from Credit Karma for not even having a late payment for anything in forever.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Monday, May 12, 2025 - 2:43 pm
You want to very carefully handle anything dead.. Especially with bird flu on the rise and the CDC not informing people..
Hope the meeting went well...
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, May 12, 2025 - 4:04 pm
I used the dogs pooper scooper and put it in the woods. Now I just realized I should have thrown it out so something doesn't eat it. Now I know for next time. It just didn't occur to me at the time. I was upset because I loved my little sapsucker.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Monday, May 12, 2025 - 10:25 pm
There there, Grooch. You do have a good heart, and this will not put a bad mark on your karma scorecard.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Monday, May 12, 2025 - 11:49 pm
Well, don't blame yourself.. The state of Avian Influenza is being suppressed. Even for cleaning bird poop from a car it is best to wear mask and gloves, just in case.
I am sorry you lost a favorite bird. I would be sad, too.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 8:19 am
RN Doing some last minute power cleaning before the Kid shows up to look at the room at 3:00.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:10 pm
RN Yay! He's taking the room. He came with his dad. His dad was cute. He's moves in Memorial Day, the 26th.
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Sugar
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:25 pm
That's great Naja! A bit of a financial breather for you.
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 1:49 pm
RN, I like that he came with his Dad and you liked them both. That’s probably a good sign.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 5:27 pm
RN they really did seem like nice people. I am so completely exhausted that I think I'm going to fall asleep here at 7:30 p.m.!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 10:46 pm
Yay Naja!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 1:05 am
Good news, Naja! Sleep well.
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Maris
Member
03-27-2002
| Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 5:48 pm
Good news Naja
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 8:33 pm
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 8:52 am
RN You all have been so helpful to get me here. Sometimes I still can't believe it.
55 more days!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:22 pm
RN I think I have to change my dog sitter settings to not take new clients. I am already over-booked through June 25!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 9:52 pm
Yep, change the settings and use the freed up time to up your prices, which might weed out some of the bad dog owners who want to take advantage of your soft heart and terrific ratings.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 10:03 pm
True.. Keep going with the best doggie and owner combinations.. The ones you and your dogs enjoy the most.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, May 16, 2025 - 3:01 am
RN ok, I changed the account settings to where I don't accept new clients. If it starts getting slow, I'll change it back. As it is now, I already have 3 meet and greets scheduled with new clients.
2 on Saturday, and one next week. That's enough new clients for now.
I don't want to raise prices, but I do want to get rid of a couple dogs. I looked through other sitters, and the very few that have higher prices than I do in my area are licensed groomers, vet assistants, or licensed trainers. All things I am not. And the ones who charge ridiculous amounts have almost no clients. My prices are already higher than most. I've raised them twice.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Friday, May 16, 2025 - 11:15 pm
Seems like you have it all covered, Naja. Not accepting new clients for a while will give you some breathing room, and also give the imp0ression that you are in high demand, which you are. Because you have high ratings, AND you are the best in your area.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 5:56 am
RN Remember the pit bulls I had to stop sitting because one went crazy when I was raking the yard and he attacked the rake and my Patsy?
Well, it appears they found a sitter near me and she sat for them for Thanksgiving week (The week I canceled on them), and then 4 more times until February when all use of the service seems to have stopped, even their dog walker seems to have stopped walking them as well. I don't see any bad reviews, but something surely had to have happened to go from using the service all the time to not using it at all for 3 months.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 8:46 pm
That does sound suspicious.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 10:46 pm
You did the right thing, Naja.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 6:27 am
RN I think so, too 
RN I finally got the nerve up to text my neighbor about the tree in the back yard of the house they let their ex-DIL and grandkid live. (They used to live next door, but moved across the street to a nicer house and let their Son, wife and kid live there, but their son divorced her and moved to NYC. Now DIL lives there for free with the grandkid and doesn't lift a finger to do yard work)
Anyway, I'll post how it went.
Me: Hi Rocky, I hope this is your phone number because you didn't answer my last text from last fall. I hope you are all doing well! I am so sorry to bother you. I wanted to let you know I think that tree in back hanging over all the way to my house needs to be trimmed. It's getting very scary looking, especially while I'm under it. Thanks, Rocky!
Rocky: Hi Naja. Thank you for letting me know about the limb. I'll check on it when I get home from work today. My daughter-in- law isn't very good about letting me know about these types of things.
(So I felt he didn't really get the gravity of the situation, so I took a picture. I was thinking he sounded like there was a just a low hanging limb that needs a snip)
Me: Thank you, Rocky! I've included a picture to show you what I am talking about. This limb actually was slapping my roof during the storms last night. That's the corner where my bedroom is. This entire limb is very scary in storms.
He hasn't responded again, but do you think I got my message across?
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, May 19, 2025 - 6:39 am
RN: I think you did. And now you have proof that he knows about it and is liable if anything happens. He should probably just take the whole tree down. As beautiful as they are, I don't like big trees near houses.
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