For context, I work in private direct care for a young nonverbal autistic women. She is currently living in her parent’s house because subsidized housing is impossible to get in our area.
Her father owns a dog, which is very sweet and well behaved. The problem is they will leave the house for hours, or even days and expect me to care for the dog with no notice.
Today they left at 9am, didn’t tell me when they were getting back. Me and my client went to a city event for a few hours and came back at 4pm, and her parents weren’t back yet. That means the dog had not gone out for at least 7 hours. We came back 4 hours early, it would of been 11 hours. Visible she had to pee, so I brought her out. My clients parents are VERY picky where their dog does her business, because they “don’t want to destroy the grass”. So I have to walk her 1/2 a block to an empty lot. Of course my client takes 10+ mins to get out the door, can have a ton of behaviors and doesn’t care much for the dog. So I usually can’t take my client with, which terrifies me leaving her in the house alone.
I am extremely tempted to start to let the dog pee in the house, but I know holding their bladder so much can cause medical issues. Should I? They have done this DOZENS of times, with out compensating me. I am not their dog sitter, they can take care of their own damn dog.