How much information to give a sitter?
How much information, as a sitter, do you expect is reasonable from a client about their dog?
We recently had someone sit our dog. Our dog has some particular habits, some of which can potentially be risky for her health. Specifically, she has a thing for eating gum and any scraps of food on the ground, in particular tomatoes (toxic in large quantities). It's something we are actively working with a trainer to train her out.
Given this, we mentioned to our potential sitter to look out for gum as our dog has the habit of going for it. We also asked if the sitter minded moving their overgrown tomato plant in their yard back into its planter if possible (note, we didn't ask them to cut it back or get rid of it). The sitter responded that this wasn't possible, but she keep an eye on our dog, which we said was fine.
The sitter later cancelled on us because she said she didn't like how we mentioned the gum and tomato plants since this showed that we didn't trust her ability to take care of our dog and pointed out that she's had dogs her whole life.
We're now looking for another sitter, and was wondering if we should hold back on these information about our dog's particular habits (gum and tomato scraps) that we're still working on to train her out of? We initially thought that we should be sharing this, but are unsure what to be sharing with sitters.
What would you, as a sitter, want to know? Is that too much micromanagement?
yes, for sure, as a sitter i would like to know any particular dangerous habits so I can provide a safe environment for the animal.