Who takes care of tanks while we are away

[Leah]

When people ask for my airmiles card I just laugh. The story was, what do I do with
the dog's. Now, I would say hands down it's the fish. But if your not gone for more than
a week I would not hesitate. But make sure someone comes around daily to check on
things.

[levi1803]

There are a lot of pet sitters where people come into your house and look after your dogs a few times a day. It's nice as the dog can stay at home where they are comfortable and don't get to stressed out about it (if they are kenneled while you are not at home I suppose this wouldn't work though). I believe they will usually take them for a couple walks a day as well as stay for about an hour each time they are there to hang out and play with them, so I bet they could also watch the tank for you too.

You might even consider paying someone to actually stay at your place the whole time you are away, don't you know any University students that you trust that would love to get away from their parents for a week or two to stay at your place? Just a thought.

I know a lot of dog boarding places have webcams now and you can log into a computer and see what the dogs are doing while you are away, it's pretty cool actually and gives you a bit of peace of mind if you can see they are having fun.

[michika]

I'm a big fan of in home care for my dogs and my fish. Normally we just leave the tank, top it off, and go. We do have someone come in check on it every day though. My dogs cannot be kenneled due to abuse in the past, so in home care is definitely worth it for us. I find my dogs aren't as stressed, and behave better overall if they stay at home and someone comes to them rather then vice versa.

[my2rotties]

I live in the woods and finding people to take care of animals out here is tough. I do want my dogs home for sure but I am afraid they will take off on the sitter. I have never gone on vacation my entire life because I don't trust anyone with the pups. My hubby went to Cancun without me once since I could not find someone to care for the dogs. I was okay with it to a certain degree because dogs are so loyal. We did have friends care for them once when we went to Kelowna for two day to visit the inlaws... they had all their friends over, small children in the house (don't want kids in my house around my dogs when I am not there and I told them this). They ate a months worth of food in two days and my house reeked of dirty diapers. Never again. I learned with friends not to loan money or ask them to do anything for us. They got paid $100 a day and drove my truck. I don't know where they drove but my 150 litre tank was empty when I got home.

I'm a little jaded what can I say. I was hoping somebody would have names and references for home care. Darned it...

I'm going to start bugging Colby since I know he would do a good job but I don't know if he can run a store and be driving out here to live for a few days. It's worth a shot though.

[phreezee]

I've gone on vacation with just a auto feeder on the tank, but it's not pretty when you come back, everything survives though.

As for the dogs, I take my lab and husky to Gone Wild Kennels in Cochrane. It's a farm and my dogs love it. The owner, Dave, is a good guy too.

http://www.gonewildkennels.com/

[Okotoks Reefer]

http://www.countryclub-petresort.com/
they are awesome!!!! give it a look we brought our 3 cockers there and they didn't wanna leave lol

[Kryptic4L]

just got back from costa rica, my 24 nano did just fine, everything survived with flying colors with 0 feeding for 1 week. could always get something like a reefkeeper control unit which Im hoping to have in a week or two which will monitor temp and ph. They are also releasing a salinty probe right away. And the .net module will send emails to a blackberry. So if anything does happen have someone handy to phone. Then just set up a webcam. Peace of mind while on the road.