There is always a moment at the beginning of a sit when the front door closes and a perfectly ordinary house becomes your whole small world. You learn the sound of the fridge, the sticky latch, and exactly where the pet expects you to stand at breakfast.
This sample story shows how the journal will read as Jackie and Jack add each new experience. A walk-note can arrive as a rough voice transcript, then become a generous story: what happened, what surprised us, what was funny and what would help another sitter next time.
“The best instructions don’t tell you only what to do. They tell you what ‘normal’ looks like.”
What this sit taught us
Ask about the ordinary details before you need them. Where is the spare food? What behaviour means “I am bored,” and what means “something is wrong”? Which neighbour has a key? Small answers make a sitter calmer and a pet safer.
Field note
One useful question
“If your return is delayed by twenty-four hours, what would you like us to do?”
And then there is the mug: heavy green mug. Not special in a shop-window way—special because it held the first coffee of a new little chapter.
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