I have used Sweet Dreams Pet Sitting in the past, 2-3 times and had OK results, and we recommended them, but this time will be our last unfortunately. This is due to a nasty and rude letter Cindy left us and we were able to read upon our return. Evidently Cindy took issue with our home have security cameras which made her feel we were watching her, which couldn't have been further from the truth. Like most modern families, we have security cameras in and around our home. These are not hidden, they are in plain view for everyone to see. We have an alarm, etc. We have 4 cats and one gecko that we ask Cindy to watch. She comes over once a day, for about 30 minutes to feed the cats, clean the litter and water the gecko. So over 7 days, about 210 minutes she is on the home. The remaining 23 and 1/2 hours of the day it is nice peace of mind for us to have technology to protect our home and to check in on our pets because we are very close to them. We have had these cameras every time Cindy has watched our home and it has never been an issue before. We are talking about one camera on the main door coming in and my son has a "gecko cam" in his room because geckos are nocturnal and he wants to watch it.
So Cindy not only left a snotty letter saying she didn't have anything to tell us because we were "watching her" but she defriended us online, all because we have two cameras in our home.
This is 2019 Cindy, people have cameras in their homes. It isn't like you were house sitting and we watched you the entire time. We saw you once, the first day. Every other day we got notification that you arrived and that was all we noticed.These cameras weren't installed in every room and they were not hidden. If you cannot accept people securing their homes then maybe you should get into a different line of work? The first day you came over we got an alert on the gecko cam and noticed you trying to disassemble the terrarium and move the heat lamp, which could have killed the gecko. So my wife called you and walked you through how to open the front so you could water the gecko. That was it! You knew we had this camera the last time you watched our pets because you unplugged the heat lamp because you thought it was burned out and over heating, so we called you to tell you to plug it back in and not change anything.
We have considered you to be a friend of our family and referred you to many, but to come home to read your nasty note, to see you blocked us on FB all because we have security cameras is just too much. Then when we try to message you about the note and tell you nobody was watching you, we get no response. This is exactly the wrong thing we needed after a 7 hour drive. read more