Hey Karen, The link isn’t working for me but I’ve googled how to clean the foam. It takes a long time to dry but I did try to clean a previous foam insert in the washer. Bad decision! Lol. I can laugh now but it wasn’t funny when it almost caught fire in the dryer! Lesson learned. Thanks!

Thanks Allison. Yea, I just dropped it but will be more diligent in the future when choosing a backup sitter. Thanks for your advice.

I think I will just drop it and take your advice about not sending the bed with her anymore. It’s kind of a pain to clean the foam inside but I guess it’s one of those “own risk” situations when sending anything to another person’s home, especially when pets or kids are involved. Thanks for input.

I recently used a new sitter when my normal sitter had a family emergency. Things seem to have gone well and I left the sitter a good review. However, a couple days later, I noticed my dog’s bed (I always send with her for comfort) smelled funny. Upon examination, including taking the cover off, it was apparent that the bed had been peed on. I’m not so biased to say there is absolutely no way that my dog could have peed on her own bed but I highly doubt it. She has had 2 accidents in the 5 years that I have owned her and neither were on her bed or near any personal items (of hers or mine). I know that the new sitter has two small male dogs and I also know that male dogs like to leave their “mark” by peeing on things.

I feel reluctant to confront the sitter bc she’s young and it’s been over two weeks now since the incident...and I already left a nice review. Maybe I’m being ageist, but she’s new at sitting and I don’t want to hurt her feelings or make her feel obligated to give me money or something (although it was a new bed!). Should I drop it or bring it up to her? I do know that my dog won’t be going back there and I’m reluctant to use a sitter that owns other dogs now.