Pro:
Meeting fantastic people who become friends.
Meeting beautiful pets who give lots of love and are in our hearts.
The things pets do that make you laugh. Their behaviour can be so funny. Sometimes the first one or two days they really try you like kids in puberty…getting to know eachother and trying out eachother…I love it.
Walking and exploring the environment with the dog makes it easier to get in contact with locals and other people. Locals know the dog, so they are more likely to talk with you than to “just a tourist/ unknown person”.
Getting to know other cultures.
Getting good ideas for home decoration etc.
Meeting and talking with different people from different countries/ cultures will give you more insights in other points of view/ other values. Which I think makes people (more) open-minded for others.
Living in/ exploring area’s where you normally never would go.
Feeling more an inhabitant of the area than a tourist.
Exploring all this without accomodation costs. Otherwise it wouldn’t affordable for us.
It gives me the feeling of freedom and happiness.
Cons:
Sometimes you are far away from your family. If something (till now luckily minor issues) is happening with them and you actually just want to hug them or go (for a day) to them, it is not possible/ more difficult to just leave. Because you ofcourse have the responsibility for the pets and house.
(But luckily I don’t sit fulltime).
Leaving the pets, who conquer my heart always so fast, behind after the sit.
Hearing that pets, we formerly sat for, died…
(Accident, because of the age, etc, so not due to our sit)
But ofcourse also during the sit the fear that a pet gets sick, of older pet dying/ cat getting an accident or something like that.
(And I know, things like that can happen always, but “not on my watch please”…)
The (little) fear that we break something important in the house.
(And I know, little accidents happen, but still…)
