The hardest thing for me to do is to find someone I trust to take care of my animals while I go away for a week end or however long. Of course it is a little harder for me because I have a lot of animals, plus I have different kinds of animals. And I guess one of the problems I have is that I don’t have a lot of money, so it is hard for me to afford to pay someone to stay here so that makes it twice as hard.

So one of the things you have to be sure to do before you leave your animal or animals with a sitter is to make sure that sitter is dependable. The best way to do this in my opinion is to ask your friends who they use to take care of their animals while they are away. And you could ask your veterinarian if they have any good suggestions. There usually are a lot of ads in the yellow pages for pet sitters but you would have to get some recommendations from them. Or you could get them to come out to your house and just see how they get along with your animals.

One good thing to do if you are going away is to talk to your vet and tell them that you are going away and then make payment arrangements in case one of the animals gets sick. And be sure that the animal sitter has the vet’s number and knows where the office is located. And the vet should be aware of what kind of measures or care you’re willing to authorize.

Also let the vet know if you want to be contacted in the event the cat or dog gets sick. If so, be sure the vet has a phone number for where you will be staying. Or you could give your email address, in case you aren’t around the phone all the time.

The main thing I do which I sure everyone does, is to make a list of which animals get which food and where they all eat. And who has to be separated to eat etc. You should see the book that I leave when I go out of town which isn’t often.