Dog is destroying my house. Can I cancel a booking?

Call Rover immediately and ask them if they could find a new sitter. They may find one. There is a special program called sitter-to-sitter, and if one sitter cannot continue sitting the pet, the sitters who signed up for this program, are available to take the dog immediately. Good luck.

You really can't cancel the booking midway unless there is a serious health and safety risk. What you can do is "puppy proof" your house and make sure there are plenty of interesting and approved dog toys around. My house looks like I just moved in because I don't have personal things all over where the dogs could grab them. You can also just puppy proof a single room and put him in there when you can't watch him. Another option is tethering to you, which also helps train them the proper behavior and generally to respect you, though that can be a bit of a pain. As a last resort you can crate him when you can't watch him completely. A lot of dogs are already crate trained which helps tremendously with potty training and destructive behaviours.

Give the owner a call though and see which of the above options they feel is best for their dog and explain what a nightmare he has been.

I’d like to have an answer for our situation.

I often see answers of “make sure to let the dogs out enough, for a long enough duration“, but we usually let the dogs out in the backyard, or take them for a walk, every couple of hours, and at least 20 minutes each. PLENTY of time for them to empty their bladders.

Yet males AND females, always come back in the house and pee. Several spots, throughout the day. It’s causing lots of tension in the house and stress.

I understand that the OCCASIONAL dog will pee as it’s a new place. Usually once. Maybe twice.

But dogs we have watched several times before, will pee all the time, everywhere.

We are very caring and loving. We do not yell at them. We don’t do anything that scares them.

We clean old pee spots up with enzyme remover and they still smell the old spots, as well as create new spots.

We don’t want to stop pet-sitting. As we need the income and we love animals. But this makes absolutely no sense to us that we let them out plenty, and they are familiar with our house, especially if they are repeat clients, yet they still Pee everywhere. Sometimes, the more we watch them, the more it seems they pee.