Eventually it was my borzoi who sold the house. We saw some people parked outside looking at the flyer. We invited them in and the first thing my usually aloof borzoi did was go up to the lady and give her the leaning “hug”. They bought the house that weekend, but for some strange reason, still don’t have a dog.

How in the heck am I supposed to hide & stash all our large dog beds?! What to do with all the 50 odd stuffed animals escaping their crate & found “wandering” all over the house? Don’t even get me started on the “fluffies” billowing around the hardwood floors whenever my labs blow their coats. I can’t even go the store without someone asking me what kind of CAT I have, lol. I pray my vacuum holds out but I’m not holding my breath.

Kenneling is not an option. Taking the dogs camping for a few days at a time though, might be. ;)

Also, made sure that when the lookers came me and my dogs were not around. It used to bother me that houses could look like WW III had hit(families with children out of control) and my dogs were clean, my house was tidy - but it sold!

Katie

He suggested getting rid of our dog and cat.

Not kenneling them while the house was being shown. Getting rid of them.

It was a conversation-stopper, and my mother decided not to sell. When she finally did sell, ten years later, she used a different agent, and there was no discussion of getting rid of the pets. Or, there may have been—my mother may have begun the conversation with a discussion of our previous experience.

Laura

PS. I have no direct connection to the Pet Realty Network, I just follow it because it was started by Rhona Sutter, who ran Pet Protect, a pet insurance company I used to watch.