Meet and Greet - Would you book it?
Hello Sitters! Yesterday I had a meet and greet that was kinda weird. I talked to this lady and she has two dogs - one old and another one 4 years old. She is older and seems nice, and she asks for a meet and greet. So yesterday she shows up in my building and when I come downstairs to pick her up, I have a surprise: she is with her husband and she doesn’t have her dogs with her. I didn’t know what to do at that point. They are an older couple (60 something maybe) and when asked about the dogs, she said they get car sick so she decided to not bring them. I thought the whole point of the meet and greet was to see if my dog would get along with someone’s dog. But ok I get that she wanted to check if my place is clean, organized and If I am a nice person. But made me REALLY uncomfortable to have a strange couple in my house, especially because I was alone. And how they talked! It lasted for 30 minutes. She was nice, played with my dog, explained how her dogs are (the older dog apparently have some difficulties). I can’t complain about them personally. My question is: would you book the dogs without meeting them? And how this situation should have been handle? I know I didn’t do the right thing. But if I am booking with a woman in my profile and schedule the meeting and greet, and she decides to bring her husband without letting me know.... I should just not let them come in?
I have had this happen, taken the dog to board and it was a disaster. The person I met with said the dog gets very excited initially so they did not bring the dog. The dog ended up be quite hyper with separation anxiety. I always insist that I meet the dog before boarding.
I understand bringing her husband, almost everyone I book with has brought someone with them since they are going to some strangers house for the first time. Not bringing her dogs is weird... If it was one night I would do it but more than that no since you’d be stuck with a potentially bad stay