Well, as someone who has done hundreds of home visits, let me assure you, no one cares how clean your house is. We aren't there to see if you have dust bunnies under the sofa.
Honestly, in fact, I am very cautious to adopt a dog to someone with immaculately clean white carpet in every room and not a particle of dust anywhere. I just can't see the black lab mix puppy they want fitting into the home too well, and possilby ending up at the pound when it eat their $10,000 white leather sofa.
When I do home visits, I look at the yard and fence. I look for any inconsistencies between the application and the real situation ... or flat out lies, too. I watch the kids. Are they picking the kitten up and swinging it around the room? I watch the other pets. Are they friendly and happy? Or nervous and afraid ... like it's the first time they've ever been in the house in a year, or like somone regularly smacks them with a newspaper.
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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