A week of dog-sitting halts a new dog search.

Many of us dog lovers are accustomed to pet-sitting for each other; often, the only people we trust with our dogs are our dog-owning friends and relatives. I frequently offer to dog-sit for family and friends; it gives me a chance to use their dogs to test products and take photos for WDJ. (Readers are probably familiar with some of my most frequent guests: Paws, a handsome young yellow Labrador, who spent three days a week with me during the most destructive months of his puppyhood; Cooper, my father-in-law’s well-mannered Australian Shepherd; and Jessie, a neighbor’s “shelter Pit-mix,” who is so accustomed to modeling that she now sits and smiles…

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