Requests to book when I have marked "Unavailable"

There's an option in your profile settings that lets you determine whether or not you will show up in the search results for longer stays that include days you are marked unavailable. You may want to take a look through your settings if this is what is happening.

If it's for shorter stays, you may have just had some bad luck starting out. We all get those requests from time to time where it's clear the owners didn't really look at our profile before messaging us, whether it's not checking our availability, the services we offer, whether or not we take puppies, or anything else. I figure that it all balances out in the end, because we're all having to decline these mismatched requests. If your calendar continues to be an issue for you, you might consider putting something in the very beginning of your profile like "due to X, I can only take dogs on Y days" or "please check my calendar for availability before sending me a request." If people are going to read anything, it will be the little bit that shows up in the search rankings, so the most important info should be right up front.

This happens to me a lot as well, and it is rather frustrating. The only thing I can figure is that owners aren't putting their dates in to search, OR they aren't looking at the availability calendar. I also accept clients outside of Rover, and right now most of my calendar is filled with these clients (who booked more than a week or two in advance). So, I'm in the tough position of declining the majority of my Rover requests and not having very many successful bookings to off-set it. I liked Laura's idea of reminding them to check the calendar at the beginning of my profile.