I used to be an animal carer, and I’ve got a dog, hopefully some of these will cheer you up.. some may not end up as stories of just where they’ve turned up though!
I was cat sitting for a new client, now I don’t go through peoples homes, I make a point of only going where I need to, so 3rd day in, I can’t find the cat. I’m thinking what’s gone on? Where is she? She has no way of escape. Where’s the cat? So I’ve by this point ransacked the house. I’ve been in the cupboards, I’ve been in the washing basket, and I’m thinking I’ve gotta find this cat! Where is it! They’re going to kill me! In the meantime my husband turns up to help me find the cat.
He says hippo, listen, I can hear something. So silently we start looking... I’m just hoping they’re not watching CCTV of us! And he says he’s found the cat. He says stay out, Its under the bed, I’ll coax it. I say HOW?! It’s a bloody divan!? So he opens the drawer which was fully closed, and put pops a paw full of claws. That was a bit of a moment explaining, owners said they’d not shut the drawer properly but never thought she’d have got in, they laughed that I felt so bad having ransacked their house. They asked me to look after the cat again, but I was scared!
A dog who I used to have live with us during the week, he wasn’t in his usual space by my side. I called him, I called again and again. Now this dog had form for running sway from his owner. He loved building sites and we lived on the edge of one so I was worrying that he had got out somehow. So I searched everywhere except the bathrooms, he didn’t venture into them. Just as I’m thinking I’m going to have to call his owner, I think I’ll check the house just once more, so I checked DDs bathroom. He was an old chap, and he had managed to get in her bath, but couldn’t get out. So I had to pick him up a la baby. And he didn’t like it so he scratched me everywhere. I laughed when I put him down.
He used to wriggle out of his dog harness as I drove to get in the front of the car to sit like a human. I had to put a stop to driving whilst doing up the dogs seatbelt, so he started to travel in the front with his harness strapped in. People used to giggle at him in the front. Even worse was DD would sit in the back of the car.
Current dog is often found in the wash basket curled up in dirty clothes
He also hides in DDs bed. He jumps onto a mid sleeper.
Our dog tries to sit on one of the spare chairs at the table when he’s feeling like doing extra begging.
He stands at the full length window stamping his paw if I dare to leave him more alone.
Our dogs a funny one.