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My dog walker and the builder having an affair?

204 replies

ThatJadeQuail · 04/07/2025 23:22

Pretty much what it says in the title!

I have a dog walker that comes in and walks my dog 4 times a week, she has walked my dog for 5 years and is brilliant, a lovely woman who always goes above and beyond. She is married.

I have a pet cam at the front of my house I see what time she comes and goes each day. But I don’t really look at it and it only sees the front of the house in living room not the back rooms.

I currently have a builder here who is working on my extension and has been for a month. He’s also done other work on my property and I’ve always trusted him.

ive noticed my dog walker has been staying here longer than usual after she leaves the dog (I am at work) and I’ve noticed the builder (who is also married) bringing up the dog walker in a lot of conversations.

then today my dog walker stayed for 1.5 hours after the time of walking my dog and on my camera I can definitely hear “noises” that are possibly sex noises but its hard to tell because camera is picking up from a ropm
or two away.

what do I do? Do I bring this up with them? Do I leave it as it’s none of my business? Do I say I know and to stop using my house? Or have I just let my imagination run wild and it could be completely innocent? It’s a very awkward thing to bring up!

OP posts:
Redshoeblueshoe · 04/07/2025 23:24

Ha ha ha have another glass of wine

youreactinglikeafunmum · 04/07/2025 23:25

This is the kind of gossip I live for 🤭🤭

Do not say anything yet at least - you dont know for sure anything is happening

snoopywife · 04/07/2025 23:41

It’s tricky as you can’t prove it, if you could then I would say tell them
to go elsewhere! But you could drop hints so hopefully they will be a bit more discreet x

pinkstripeycat · 04/07/2025 23:43

Put £20 Tapo cameras in all your rooms and you’ll find out for sure.

TempestTost · 04/07/2025 23:43

I'd write a novel, OP. "The Dog-walker and the Builder".

PollyBell · 04/07/2025 23:43

I want to know who's shagging the gardener?

seenabeena · 04/07/2025 23:55

I bet they were doing it doggystyle 😳

Upupandaway10 · 05/07/2025 02:34

seenabeena · 04/07/2025 23:55

I bet they were doing it doggystyle 😳

🤣🤣

josuk · 05/07/2025 02:52

Come home early one day 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Other than that - I’d stop watching the camera. Dog walker is like a nanny - trust is important, as is trusting her to take care of your dog. She’s done it for 5 years - do you really want to fire her and look for someone new.
Builder will be gone soon.

Their morality is none of your business, And you don’t really know what actually went on.
Unlikely they were having such loud sex that your cameras picked it up.

Tiredandtiredagain · 05/07/2025 03:18

seenabeena · 04/07/2025 23:55

I bet they were doing it doggystyle 😳

Bring back the laughing emoji!!

Lurkingandlearning · 05/07/2025 05:37

I wouldn’t like it especially as builders often work so slowly without taking a shag break. I don’t see how you can approach this directly without potentially losing your dog walker. And I wouldn’t want to upset my dog.

You’ll have to hint and say there’s something wrong with your camera because you’re getting some very weird background noise, almost like people having sex. And let it be known you have cameras inside the rest of the house, so they don’t start bouncing around on your sofa and beds.

Zanatdy · 05/07/2025 05:41

Ask her if everything was ok when she dropped Snoopy off as you noticed she was at your house for 1.5hrs. Say you just wanted to check as you noticed the builder is a bit of a perv. If they’ve had sex in your house that’s grim. Bleach those worktops!

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 05/07/2025 05:44

Bleach those worktops!

🤮😡🤬😱😤🤯🤦‍♀️🙄😳

Feel free to rearrange my reaction order if you need to.

CurlewKate · 05/07/2025 07:44

So long as they’re not doing it in front of the dog….

SlightlyTooMuch · 05/07/2025 07:51

I’d just ask whether everything’s all right, as you noticed when checking the pet cam that she was at your house far longer than usual.

TheBig50 · 05/07/2025 07:58

🤣 Maybe she was helping him with some heavy labouring hence the noises...

The Dog Walkers Lover!

I wouldn't care but if it was in my house I'd be eyeing everything suspiciously hoping not to find any bodily fluids.

Put barbed wire on your kitchen counters!

Shesellsseashellsnotinmystreet · 05/07/2025 08:01

It is op's business if they are using her house as a knocking shop...
Set up Alexa..
Play suitable tunes at the appropriate moment.
Suggestions please?

Sera1989 · 05/07/2025 08:25

I think I’d see if it happens again and then mention it saying the camera senses motion so just checking everything was ok as she stayed for a long time. What other rooms are close to the camera? I’d definitely be trying to work out where they’d done it 💦. I thought this kind of thing only happens in movies, who is bringing condoms to work (very hopeful question) and who sees a builder’s dirty hands and thinks phwoarr I really want that sand and cement all over me right this second. Do you know if both are actually single? 🙈

CreationNat1on · 05/07/2025 08:30

Find a way to mention the camera in passing. Also get someone to call over, drop something off, so that your house isn't quite the handy, secret sex nest.

CreationNat1on · 05/07/2025 08:32

You could say x was worried about leaving a package at the front door, but I reminded her my cameras are movement activated, so it's fine, I can see when she comes and goes.

Unexpecteddrivinginstructor · 05/07/2025 08:35

SlightlyTooMuch · 05/07/2025 07:51

I’d just ask whether everything’s all right, as you noticed when checking the pet cam that she was at your house far longer than usual.

Yeah I would go with this. It reminds her that you can see her coming and going. Perhaps over a text message so she has time to come up with an excuse. Then just bleach and pretend it never happened.

bopsybop · 05/07/2025 08:35

As others have said - I would innocently ask ‘was everything ok yesterday - I saw you had to stay a long time after the walk, was dog unsettled?’

that way you’re not accusing them of anything but hopefully they’ll take their antics elsewhere!!

Procrastination4 · 05/07/2025 08:38

Tiredandtiredagain · 05/07/2025 03:18

Bring back the laughing emoji!!

😂

rainbowsparkle28 · 05/07/2025 08:38

It’s not the affair that’s the issue - that’s none of your business, whilst I don’t agree with it obviously. But them possibly sleeping together IN YOUR HOME FFS and spending an inappropriate amount of time together presumably whilst being paid to do other things is not acceptable at all. I would be saying to them you’re not sure if anything is going on, what they get up to is between them, but your home is not the place for it, they are not to be using it as a love nest if they are, and to stick to what they are supposed to be there to do.

NuffSaidSam · 05/07/2025 08:42

They're both married. Is there a chance that they're married to each other?

Has you dog walker been dropping hints about how your house would benefit from an extension? Has the builder ever suggested you consider a second dog?