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Pet Sitting vs Boarding: How to Choose Care for Your Pets During Holiday Travel
A good holiday plan means your pets are cared for and your house looks lived in while you’re away. Pet sitting and boarding can both get you there. Pet sitting vs boarding comes down to your pet’s...
Halloween Safety Tips for Pets
Halloween is fun for us humans. For our pets, it can be stressful and even dangerous. The doorbell, the strangers in masks, the candy bowl and the costumes are a lot for a pup or kitty to take in....
How Long Can You Leave a Cat Alone? Why We Never Skip a Day
I cannot tell you how many times we’ve arrived for a cat visit and found a kitty has shut a door and closed itself into a room, no food, no water, no litter box in reach. It happens more than you’d...
How to Stop a Dog From Chewing Everything
Mark, one of our pet sitters, walked into a client’s home in Trinity Falls last week and found the floor covered in green stuffing. About a thousand pieces of it, scattered corner to corner. What...
15 Funny Things Dogs Do (and Why They Do Them)
I walk into a McKinney client’s kitchen for a midday visit and catch Lola mid-zoomies, tearing laps around the island, ears pinned back, paws skidding on the tile like something invisible is chasing...
How to Make Your Cat a Lap Cat (8 Tips That Actually Work)
My cat Peanut rode the whole way from our old house to McKinney under the gas pedal of the moving truck. Not on my lap. Not even in the front seat where I could reach her. Under the gas pedal, for...
Dog-Friendly Restaurants in McKinney, TX
One of our walkers had a golden retriever named Duke stop dead in front of The Yard on a Tuesday afternoon last spring. Tail going, nose up, whole body pointed at that patio like he’d been there...
Dog Days of Summer: 6 Hot Weather Activities Your Pup Will Actually Enjoy
Erick stepped out to grab the mail last week in flip-flops and made it about four steps down the driveway before he was hopping back to the porch like the concrete had turned into a skillet. Welcome...
Top 10 Things That Scare Dogs the Most
We were on our morning route in McKinney when it happened. Lola, a pup that I walk daily, was trotting along perfectly. Then a yellow school bus rounded the corner, brakes hissing, engine loud. She...