At the start of this year, I had set a goal to grow my dog sitting/boarding side gig. You see, from the time I started taking doggie clients, my business had doubled from year 1 to year 2. And I was thinking an extra several grand would come in handy for some expenses associated with my full time job. As it turns out, I started ramping up activities with my real estate business which meant I was not home to dog sit, esp new clients that had to be introduced and monitored with Bentley. Bubbey started getting annoyed having to coordinate schedules, and so I decided to just stick to existing clients. So things were going well with my cash cow doggie– a client from the very beginning who came regularly for both daycare and boarding– until a few months ago, she had diarrhea all over John’s office. We figured she was just randomly sick (no explanation as to why), so we told the owner and she paid for the steam cleaning. Well, a few weeks ago, the accident happened again. And since I wasn’t home to clean up the bodily fluids, John– who is queasy about that stuff– lost his shit.

I was in the middle of handling a bunch of things for work and that was the last straw. That’s right, I had to shut down the doggie biz. Bubs wasn’t about to babysit the critters while I was out, and he def wasn’t going to handle accidents inside the house. And just like that, I had to say goodbye to my cash cow.

I suppose the silver lining in all this is that now I can focus even more energy and attention on my real estate biz. Haha, I know, you didn’t think it was possible! I suppose in the grand scheme of things, picking up another buyer/seller will definitely yield higher results than picking up another doggie client. Sigh. Changes had to be made.