Hallelujah! I found the right place for me and will be moving out in a month. I will miss the sweet dogs and the other dog I walked, but no one else. I never, ever have to see the most toxic landlord I've ever had again!! BYE FELICIA!!!

When I asked for more than $15/day for two dogs along with overnight, no reply. But later, she said that a friend would now take care of them. So weird, but I'm happy to not be taking care of the dogs anymore! Just want to put this situation behind me.

So, it turns out the dogs were fed too much. I had a feeling the scoop of food was not what the owner meant, but her friend charged ahead with the scoop. Next time I will listen to my gut when I have a feeling something is not right. Hopefully, feeding them less will now improve. I'm feeling so overwhelmed.

I'm a first time dog sitter for a neighbor (desperately needed last minute help) and need some help from other dog owners! Today was Day 3 and the two dogs (chihuahua and don't know the other small breed) and they already had 3 bathroom acccidents inside the house (2 poop, 1 pee). Today with both poop and pee accidents in the kitchen. WTF?! It's been really unsettling to have this deal with this since I no warning from the owner. AND get paid hardly anything for this gig. It's going to be a long two weeks. Please help with any tips, any dog owners out there. I don't know much about dogs! Thank you!

Married 10+ years, with children, and also happy. The secret? My kids are grown and out of the house. Those child raising years are tough, esp with a husband that's less than stellar. I'd be bored and lonely w/o the hubs. I'd manage, though, don't get me wrong. If anything were to ever happen that ended my marriage there's no way in hell I'd marry again. I'd get another couple dogs to keep my company. At least with them, you KNOW they're not going to pick up after themselves.

I'm partially caring for the landlord's dogs while she's on vacation. Her son also comes over to help along with the other housemate. When he comes, the whole house turns into a freakin' mess. The other housemate is home and supposed to care for them, too. I leave for the weekend and come home to find their water bowls completely dry, dirty dishes everywhere and can't find the leash to take them on a walk them. WTF! What were they doing all weekend?!?!

I can't wait to move out of here when my lease ends in 2 months. Landlord has been such a toxic Debbie Downer about everything, I have never lived with such a toxic landlord. She had an outburst last weekend and never once apologized for it, but tried to blame me. She has anger issues, I've seen her get mad at her aging dogs. Thank god she's going out of country Monday for 1 month. I'm having a celebration dinner.

I'm sad and I'm sort of angry at my DH. Our little dog is sick. He's got a heart condition and he gets worse if he gains weight. I mean, it will get worse regardless but weight gain exacerbates it. DH took him to the vet and he's gained 5lbs in 2 months. And I can't help but be upset at DH because he is constantly giving the dogs treats. We have one dog that needs to gain weight and one dog that can't gain weight. And he just gives treats to everybody. All the time. Pig ears and milk bones and bananas. The vet appointment was an eye opener for DH, but I've been telling him all along to lay off the treats and he didn't listen when I said it. I can't lose my little man one moment sooner than I absolutely have to. I love him so much I can't stand this.

We don't have leash laws here and I'm glad, I have no problem with people who can successfully control their dogs off leash having them off leash. But there are so many Covidiots who bought a dog because they were bored and have no fucking clue what they are doing running around now, and my dog hates being approached by other dogs. A cheeky bitch actually said to me she wouldn't walk hers on the leash because he pulls her. Great, so you're telling me you can't control him on the leash or off. Good job, Brenda, maybe you should buy a fucking succulent next time. Also, I just love that everybody else has to deal with your dog's problems because you can't be bothered to train him to walk on a lead properly.

I feel like this but with emotional neglect. I feel like they taught me nothing and I never felt like I could open up to them...there was basically nothing emotional from them, but they would use their own emotion as basically a guilt tactic to get us to behave. It's like those people who adopt dogs and then don't consistently train or exercise the dog so wonder why they end up with a nightmare dog. It feels like my parents had kids because that's just what you do, and they expected us to just turn out perfect with no emotional support or understanding, no shoulder to cry on or anything. I just feel adrift without a life raft. I think there's lots of abuse that doesn't resemble "typical" abuse.