Pet Parents, please be honest in your Welcome Guide in regards all food given to your pet(s). Housesitters do not seek to judge, rather to properly care for your pets (including appropriate calorie intake).
As experienced housesitters, we have completed several housesits where core pet diet was comprised of human food. We’ve seen all sorts of food intake. This is clearly stated in the listing and/or video call and in the Welcome Guide. During housesit, we duly honour Pet Parent request and feed pet(s) as prescribed by Welcome Guide. All good.
But we have also completed multiple housesits where Pet Parent, for whatever reason, elects to top-up pet food with human food. But only the pet food quantity is identified or quantified in the Welcome Guide. Sometimes this may be waste human food or not. Sometimes it may be trivial quantity and sometimes a whole lot. Sometimes it occurs on a rare occasion, sometimes routinely. This may result in inadvertent under-feeding of pet(s) or needless guesswork by a housesitter.
All resolvable with honest disclosures in a listing and quantified, even if estimate, of all foods in a Welcome Guide.