Nathan's Animal Care

01/23/2025

Milo, keeping me company while I'm not able to sleep due to a bad stomach flu, and being unable to keep my sleeping meds down.

His favorite thing is to cuddle up under the sheets and blankets.🥰

01/21/2025

Meet Milo! 🐶🐾
Milo is an almost 2-year-old Maltese who struggles with significant anxiety, particularly separation anxiety and being around new people.

Before starting this pet-sitting, I had a meet and greet with Milo and his owners; I also did a drop-in visit a few days ago so he could have more time to adjust to me, and that visit went well!

However, when I arrived early this morning for the pet-sitting, I could tell right away that Milo was very anxious, even with his anti-anxiety medication that had been given a few hours earlier by his owner.
Dogs are smart—they know when something major is happening, like their owners leaving for a trip. So I fully expected that Milo might growl and hide when I arrived this morning, even though he was mostly okay with me during the meet and greet as well as the drop-in visit.

Throughout the day, I worked slowly to help Milo feel comfortable and safe—at his own pace. For the first few hours, I mostly sat on the living room couch, motionless, letting him come to me when he felt ready, without any pressure.
Eventually, Milo came over and started licking my hands, although nervously. From there, I slowly increased my interactions with him, giving him breaks when needed.

It took most of the day (and I may need to repeat this process in the days ahead, depending on how he feels), but it always warms my heart to see a dog like Milo go from being extremely nervous—growling, shaking, and hiding—to what you see in the pictures below.

Now, he’s so comfortable that he comes to me on his own to give me his paw, and he’s been curled up behind my neck for the past hour. 🥰
Moments such as these are rewarding and heartwarming.

01/21/2025

01/19/2025

Apologies for the recent lack of posts! I’ve been busy with pet sitting for a puppy, which required my full attention, and afterwards with handling several meet and greets, and drop-in visits each day.

Due to some challenges with public transit, I’ve also been getting home quite late, around 8-9 PM, and after catching up on responding to business emails and messages, I've been heading straight to bed to be ready for the next day of work.

I'll be catching up on posts over the next few days—thank you for your patience!

01/09/2025

On January 15th, the PG Humane Society is hosting their first ever Tails of Triumph Fundraiser, with a goal of raising $40 000!

In pursuit of helping the humane society meet their goal, I have registered as an "adoptee". Adoptees are tasked with raising a minimum of $250, which will go towards providing an animal in need with vaccines, veterinary care, spays/neuters and more!

If you would like to consider donating to help an animal in need, please visit my donation page below.
https://www.canadahelps.org/me/63ykCrx8

Thank you for helping me help the animals!🐶😺

A few years ago, I adopted my first cat, Lynx, from the PG Humane Society. My hope is that every animal can have a safe and loving home, much like how Lynx had with me. This is the first Tails of Triumph Fundraiser that the Humane Society is putting o...

01/02/2025

What an interesting way to sleep.🤔

01/01/2025

Due to a last minute cancellation I am available to pet sit from January 3rd to 8th for existing clients only that have had a meet and greet with me already.

01/01/2025

Over the past few days, I've discovered various objects strewn near the front door in the morning, and I had my suspicion of who the culprit was.
That suspicion was confirmed tonight.😼😅

01/01/2025

One of my favourite pictures of 2024. Not only are they all co-existing on the cat tree without any fighting, but I'm impressed they all looked at me at the same time lol.

01/01/2025

Fergus is ending the year off right with the Zoomies!

All the while they're listening to some calming music for cats playing in the background in preparation for tonight's fireworks

01/01/2025

I was hoping to enter the New Year without being sick, but at least I'll be starting off 2025 with these five adorable cats!😺

12/31/2024

Wishing everyone and their pets a Happy New Year!

12/29/2024

Although Fergus is sitting/laying on the spot of my injury and causing some pain; he's too cute to move!

12/29/2024

Achoo!

12/29/2024

During a meet and greet yesterday for three cats and two dogs that I will be caring for next month, I couldn't help but take a picture when this cat struck a funny pose and expression.😅

12/25/2024

Wishing a very merry Christmas and happy new year to all of my clients and followers!

Thank you all for trusting me to care for your animals in 2024 and I look forward to caring for them in 2025!

12/23/2024

When I’m pet sitting, I always leave interior doors like bedrooms and bathrooms open so the pets can roam as they please (unless a client requests otherwise).

However, out of pure habit from when I'm in my own home, I closed a bedroom door tonight without thinking anything of it and Mary was not having it. Within moments, she was pawing at the doorknob, reminding me of who’s really in charge here!😅
Lesson learned: Mary’s house, Mary’s rules!

I opened the door right after taking this video, and she's now happily lounging in there on a window hammock for cats.😺