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A member of my daughter's household, Sugar was one of my "grand dogs," for whom it was my privilege to dog-sit if her parents went somewhere she was not welcome.
Barbara Coombs Lee: A Dog's Gentle Death Barbara Coombs Lee 2012
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I know you had to dog-sit for a month, be on good behavior and basically prove that you could be responsible for me.
Bruce Reyes-Chow: A Dog's Letter to Her New Family Bruce Reyes-Chow 2011
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A member of my daughter's household, Sugar was one of my "grand dogs," for whom it was my privilege to dog-sit if her parents went somewhere she was not welcome.
Barbara Coombs Lee: A Dog's Gentle Death Barbara Coombs Lee 2012
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Finding this dog-sit in a loft with them only having to kick in three hundred a month, a place where he could play his drums, room for Marlene to work out, a streak of unusual good fortune—a vast improvement on squat-living where they'd had to go in through the steel doors in the sidewalk.
Message '93 Ginnah Howard 2011
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I know you had to dog-sit for a month, be on good behavior and basically prove that you could be responsible for me.
Bruce Reyes-Chow: A Dog's Letter to Her New Family Bruce Reyes-Chow 2011
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A member of my daughter's household, Sugar was one of my "grand dogs," for whom it was my privilege to dog-sit if her parents went somewhere she was not welcome.
Barbara Coombs Lee: A Dog's Gentle Death Barbara Coombs Lee 2012
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A member of my daughter's household, Sugar was one of my "grand dogs," for whom it was my privilege to dog-sit if her parents went somewhere she was not welcome.
Barbara Coombs Lee: A Dog's Gentle Death Barbara Coombs Lee 2012
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No. 2 would be the grandparents who dog-sit most of the week.
mroctober: Writer's Block: Cat talk mroctober 2010
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We're especially needy in that department so we have one and a half: In addition to the wholly-owned Cox-Lehmann subsidiary known as Hank, we long-term dog-sit Wheatley, the enormous Golden Retriever with a heart big enough for two families, while his mom works out a commuting solution to her new job overseas.
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I dog-sit for Robie and Colette occasionally, and because Yan will sit and stay really well, I dress him up in coats and hats and scarves from my closet, take photos of him, and generally pee myself laughing until his parents come to pick him up.
Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010
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