I saw a glowing review of a sitter. It mentioned how the home owner knew she ran the robot vacuum every day, as it would show up on their phone/app for the vacuum. I need to catch up with the 21st century! 
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Well, nice red flag for sure! 
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I sat a pair of Siberian cats, who have three-layer coats. They shed like mad. I ran the robo-vacuum at their home repeatedly on one day alone, LOL. I doubt my hosts were monitoring that, but they did give me a great review, including mentioning how clean I kept their place. They also quickly offered me five more sits, unasked, which theyād not posted yet.
Funny aside about surveillance of the unintended sort: Someone I know was trying to throw his wife a surprise party. To do that, their son had to get hold of her phone and disable the Ring app without her knowing, so she wouldnāt get repeated notifications as guests kept showing up at their home before her arrival. And they had to borrow cash from friends to buy party supplies, so credit card charges wouldnāt give away the surprise.
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I have seriously thought of bringing our own robot vac with us on sits but I thought it may freak the pets out as they arenāt familiar with it.
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@Oztravels . . . I would love to cart my very pretty Henrietta Hoover around. 
Am I missing the merits of robo vacs? Iāve only used them on one sit, and found the experience irritating. I was watching it bounce around, while I was trying to control the urge just to tackle the floor with a dustpan and brush or a regular vacuum cleaner.
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I do not agree. These days it is becoming normal. I would say the biggest difference here is if they just see it or they tell you that you use it too offen. If they do that thats problematic
Best thing Iāve ever bought! The first time I used one was on a house sit in Palm Springs about six years ago and knew it was a must have in my home 
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We are moving house soon and Iāve just realised thst the floors are level so we will be able to get s robot vac! Yay!
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Automated litter boxes also can be set to report when they are getting full.
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āNormalā does not equal right, respsctful or honestā¦especially in this case.
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I have a roborock called Matthew. (Our choice of name)He hoovers and mops, wish Iād bought one ages ago.
Iām now looking at a robot lawnmower. 
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