I would currently start working on leash training him, it's easy at that age and when the clients come back they will likely be thrilled.

dry food diet.

Depends on when it started happening. If it's been happening all their life it's probably a habit that was a learned behavior from their mother (if they are eating their own poop). If it's suddenly started happening it's a sign of malnutrition, enzyme imbalances... especially if they are on a heavy

It's actually relatively normal behavior for a mother dog to eat poop. When she was doing it as pregnant she may have just started doing it early. Not a nice behavior for sure XD Pineapple is a good idea one I might file away. Do you know how much to feed? I worry about too much

We will see if I can do it long term. I will tell everyone else the general hour time. My current temp client is insanely controlling as well. But at least they are only temp. Seems like I need to adjust things for future clients. My current other clients are amazing.

Things have changed a bit. I now know why she has been so OCD about the schedule. But why she wouldn't tell me fro. Straight away I don't get that. Her mother (which her dog stays with during the day) has started getting dementia. I will try to make it as consistent as possible for that reason.

In my opinion if your dog is no longer a puppy Coprophagia is not normal (though sometimes with cat poop dogs can't resist it). I find it usually has to do with dietary issues. Often the diet you are feeding them is lacking in some sort of important nutrient for that specific individual.

I have lots of clients that are regulars currently all of them except one treat me like a person, a human that they employ and accept that sometimes life does screw with you. I am extremely punctual, probably 99% of the time I arrive either a couple minutes early or exactly on time. I had a couple days last week where I just couldn't get it together. I was late (trying to make it not later than 10 minutes but sometimes I hit 30 minutes) and with this one client I was only 10 minutes late she wasn't even my worst. It was just one of those "weeks" where things kept going wrong. I told her it, I told all of them it. I kept them all up to date to every few minutes. Sent the usual cards, pictures, updates, notes, things I may have noticed etc. But she just kept trying to go off on me. Then she would say we need to get down a minute to minute schedule because her notes were all over the place and she hadn't put it on piece of paper for her parents? I have only changed our specific schedule officially once by 30 minutes because I had a temporary stay and I told her a week ahead of time. She of course after chewing me out says she wants whatever time works for me best. But obviously that isn't true. And now I can tell with the way she is texting me she is looking for a reason to drop me. If she does it will just make me shrug. I have had three others ask me currently for the spot she fills so I am not too worried about finding another person, I will just miss her dog. He is great and easy. I just want to know, am I blowing this out of proportion? I have walked for her for a month now and this is the first time I have truly had any issues with timing. Has anyone else had these issues?

-Amber