I love my guests but ever one I host makes me a bit harder with my rules!
From now on I am absolutely done with guests bringing their pets. A previous pet request was for a cat that the guests assured me would remain caged. Well it managed to smash a vase in the cottage! No big deal, the guest just considered it a casualty of having a pet, but I lost a vase.
As we have a dog, Betts (An Aussie Shepherd) and I allow pets, my most recent guest asked, on bookin, if they could bring a couple of dogs. I asked what size the dogs were and she told me about the same size as our Betts. I thought about it for about one hour before I responded and in the end agreed provided that the dogs remain the rear garden and under no circumstance enter the cottage. They agreed and late yesterday afternoon, after driving all day from Melbourne (about 840Kms), they arrived with these 2 Bernese Mountain Dogs. I had never even heard of them before but, they are the size of a St Bernard with three colours. Although young, each dog would have weighed at least 60 Kgs (132lbs) and they proceeded to do what big dogs do!
We have a beautiful cottage garden which we put a lot of effort into and doing the rounds this morning there is at least $400 worth of destroyed plants and it will take months for the garden to recover from this. All the guest said was……”Hope the dogs weren’t too much of a nuisance” and with that, was gone!
So that’s it, absolutely no pets again, I don’t care what it is….I won’t even tolerate a goldfish in a bowl. Every time you try to help and work with a guests needs….you get your backside kicked!
Not feeling like cheers.....Rob