Rent-a-Pet

I just read of a new app called Bark'N'Borrow a Uber type matchmaking service to rent a pet overnight or for a weekend. The company takes great pains to screen and verify users including a face to jowl meeting. I recalled my friend Mike's experience proudly parading his newly acquired Champion Scottish Terrier newly arrived from Glasgow with all his pedigreed papers. One day he received a phone call from a woman who owned a female of the same breed who was interested in mating her "bitch" to his male. She began aggressively interrogating him on his dog's sexual experience, his stud fee, etc. Mike  - this man of the world - began
to squirm. He said he felt like he was being interviewed for a possible "assignation" and he felt uncomfortable! Anyway, we never did find out what the stud fee was.
tjs
(Excerpted from Eagle Blue No. 4 Feb. 7, 2006)