I have two-and-a-half hours of dog walking with four dogs lined up today, all on the north shore. It's getting a little chilly, so I'm wearing my arm warmers, which I really adore. Then, this evening, I have three hours of volunteering with the dogs at EAS. Yay doggies!

I was doing a walk today and had another issue. It was the same building I wrote about earlier where I got the wrong code for the lockbox and had to go through ridiculous loops to get the walk done. Today, I got the keys from the lockbox and found that the exterior door locks must have been changed or something. I tried all the doors all over the ( Read more... )

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I had three walks today, all pretty close to each other and timed with half an hour between. Easy to get to by bike. Yay! (I love having a job that lets me bike around the city ( Read more... )

I did two 60 minute walks and a 10 minute potty break today. I put a new Gator Hardshell tire on my bike yesterday and did a minor tuneup, so I could use it for work. I rode it 4.3 miles to the first walk on Pratt in Chicago with Grover and Cookie. (Love the names, and they're adorable little things.) On the way back home, a job popped up in Skokie ( Read more... )

I did two walks today, including with the dog I mentioned earlier with the too-tight shirt. Her owner had left me a note thanking me for catching the problem and left some spray out to apply to the wound if she's licking it. And she was no longer wearing the shirt. I feel so much better ( Read more... )

Another stressful dog situation today happened with the same place I couldn't find the key last time. I started walking with the two dogs, but one of them was continually stopping to lick at a foreleg. I investigated and found that the stretch fabric shirt thing he was wearing was too tight around that leg and was rubbing his skin raw. I tried to ( Read more... )