Many years ago I worked as a vet tech. I have been involved with rescue all my life and successfully raised a few well-mannered, helpful and obedient dogs . I love herding breeds and my pups always have actual chores (ie: retrieving the newspaper and carrying in groceries, helping with yard work). I am currently working part time so my availability is very open for house sitting, and home visits. I do my best to keep everything consistent for your fur babies and try to keep to your normal routine and use your terminology and commands. Everyone so far has been pretty consistent ("sit, stay, off, leave it, release, etc) so I haven't needed to change up my vocabulary much. There doesn't seem to be a good place to say this about my increased base rates. "Recently Rover increased their fees making it necessary for me to increase my rates. If you have multiple pets please contact me. I can usually adjust the additional dog/cat rates. Base rate, not so much but third, fourth dog/cat fees are negotiable. Just for kicks and giggles, I would like to add that I love to organize pantries, closets and junk drawers. Let me know if you have any of those you would like me to take a look at. I won't promise it will happen so there is no charge but wouldn't it be nice to come home and find that closet/pantry or junk drawers all cleaned up and organized? I even have a label maker if you are into that but I'm not so OCD that I care about labels.