Stephanie's Rover Tales

01/04/2025

I welcomed Aztec 🐶, Skittles 🦜, Reef 🐠, & a shoal of 🐟 into my pet sitting pack

12/25/2024

I welcomed Benji & Bella back into my pet sitting pack with a Christmas Day visit! 🎄🐶💚🐾🎅

12/19/2024

Tips to keep your dogs safe this holiday season 🎄🎅🎁🐶❤️🐾

12/01/2024

I welcomed these 6 feral cats into my pet sitting pack 🐈💚🐈‍⬛ Chow Mein, Chop Suey, Charlie, Star, Dragon & Shiloh

10/15/2024

I welcomed Phoenix, Oreo and Heidi into my pet sitting pack…..16 year old Heidi enjoys the mile long walks four days a week from the comfort of her pet stroller - this sweet senior gal has earned it 🐶💚🐾

10/03/2024

Military couple needs temporary foster for their German Shepherd / Malinois mix named Zema while they are both deployed - 6 months

10/02/2024

I welcomed these 2 sweet senior Corgis - Handsome & Lizzie and their cat sibling Mime to my pet sitting pack 🐶🐱💚🐾

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05/27/2024

Never forget 🇺🇸

02/28/2024

Hello Pet Sitters! I am located in Pinehurst, NC and am looking for a pet sitter who can do overnight house sitting for my pack of 2 or 4 dogs (depending on the capabilities of the sitter, I may have them sit for 4 or just 2). Dates - April 11 - 14, 2024.

Here’s my beloved “motley crew” 🐶💚🐾

12/22/2023

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When preparing meals for the holiday season, remember to prioritize your furry friends! 🐶 🐱 Keep their paws away from these tempting treats! 👇

12/20/2023

During the hustle & bustle of this holiday season please be mindful of your pets & their safety 🎄🐶💚🐾🎅

12/20/2023

This Holiday season please be mindful of how your pets are coping with all the hustle and bustle 🎄🎅🐶💚🐾

12/06/2023

Did you ever wonder how your dogs’ nose knows?! 🤓🐶💚🐾

I NOSE WHAT TIME IT IS!

Dogs just seem to know when it’s time for food, time for a walk or even what time we’re expected to come home, sometimes down to the exact minute!

Yes, they may simply know this from daily routines that create predictable patterns or certain cues that predict certain events, but there is far more to this ability to tell time than the obvious reasons.

One theory is that time has a particular smell. Different times of the day smell differently. Morning smells differently to afternoon or evening.

As air heats up over the course of the day, air currents change and move around, carrying molecules of different odours with it.

These changes become predictable and a dog’s incredible sense of smell enables these odours to become their “clock”.

One example is when you leave the house to go to work, leaving a strong scent behind you. As time passes, your scent becomes weaker.

Dogs predict that when your scent becomes weakened to a certain level, it’s time for you to come home.

The level of your scent predicts the time. As dogs can detect both strong and weak scents and all of the levels in between, it means that they are actually interpreting events across an interval of time.

Another way dogs may tell time is through circadian rhythms. Just like us, dogs have fluctuations in systems like hormone levels, neural activity or body temperature and these rhythms may help them to understand the approximate time of day - just like when our stomach starts growling when it’s nearly time for dinner or we feel tired when it's time for bed.

Dogs are not the only species that can interpret time. Animals that migrate or hibernate follow seasonal cues from nature in the form of daylight and temperature to know when the time is right.

Having hundreds of millions more scent receptors than us, a dog’s amazing ability to smell is likely the reason that dogs just "nose" what time it is.

12/05/2023

5 Toxic Holiday Plants to Keep Away from Your Pet’s 🎄🐶🎅🐈❤️🐾

10/31/2023

I love this time of year - the fall foliage is alive with vibrant colors!

Enjoyed a walk through Southern Pines to Weymouth Woods with my pet sitting puppy client - Maggie - the 6 month old Goldendoodle 🐶🍁💚🍂🐾