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Zürich, Switzerland]I'm looking for someone in Europe who'd like to come to stay with me in Zurich, effective immediately, all expenses paid, ideally for two weeks, in return for taking care of a very sweet and fairly low-maintenance dog during the day.The situation is this: I've adopted a lovely dog called Maia, but she's unused to being alone. She wants my company if she can get it, but she'll settle down in others' too after a few minutes' whimpering. If she's left alone though, she paces and scratches and cries for a fair while before settling down. We can get her past this; it just needs time and appropriate handling.In the meantime, though, I'm in a bind. I can't leave her to whimper in my apartment during the day, because Swiss neighbours won't abide the noise or the sound of a suffering dog (good people, the Swiss). Due to her restlessness if I leave my desk even for short periods, I can't keep her in the office during the day either.I anticipated this situation and had contingency plans for it, but they depended on an agreement with my workplace, and yesterday the company told me that the situation's changed and now I'm needed full-time in the office. Oh dear.Interested? I'll pay for all your travel and upkeep, including a travel pass for the city. In return, you don't have to do much but be there, and take a pretty adorable dog out for a twenty-minute walk in the middle of the day. If you like the idea, please email footpad@gmail.com, or message @footpadwolf on Twitter. Friends-of-friends also welcome, as long as they're vouched for.—This post was made on dreamwidth.org, here. If you can, please comment there (it's simple with OpenID), because LJ's bugs make it gratuitously hard for me to answer your comments on LJ. |