Dog Owners Debate Whether You Can Dogsit Your Own Dog

Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor

Nov 25, 2023 5:00 PM EST

Dogsitting is one of the best gigs out there. You literally get paid to hang out at somebody's house and play with their dog. That's literally the dream! The week I got to dogsit my sister's friend's dog during the summer of 2019 felt like a total vacation. Literally, all that was asked of me was to keep this dog alive, and I could do that easy peasy. I watched YouTube videos on their big TV, slept in a big bed, and scratched the tucus of a really cute pup.

Recently, a debate about the definition of "dogsitting" arose on Twitter, and it has dog owners in a tissy. A woman claimed she was dogsitting. Her friend asked her whose dog she was looking after, and she said "her own." Whether you can dogsit your own dog became a hot topic of debate, which has an unusually unanimous answer: "No."

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