Overnight Pet Stays — Greater Ann Arbor
Finding someone truly qualified to stay overnight with your pet is harder than it should be. Not just someone responsible and kind — but someone with the credentials, the experience, and the clinical depth to handle whatever your pet’s needs actually are. Whether that’s a healthy dog who simply does better with company, a pet with complex behavioral needs, a senior animal whose changing care requirements have outgrown a standard sitter, or a pet receiving hospice care whose family needs to be away without compromise.
That’s exactly what Telos overnight stays provide. Delivered by a Fear Free Certified Professional with over two decades of experience — including specialized training in animal hospice, palliative care, and grief support — this is not standard pet sitting. It’s expert, attentive, overnight care calibrated precisely to your pet’s needs.
Any pet. Any age. Any level of complexity. You can be away — and your pet can be in the best possible hands.
Who this is for
HEALTHY PETS, ANY AGE
Pets who thrive with continuity
For families who understand that their pet is family — and that a neighbor, a relative, or a standard sitter simply won’t provide the level of care and companionship they deserve. Especially for pets who don’t do well in boarding, or who experience anxiety when their family is away.
COMPLEX BEHAVIOR
Pets who experience the world differently
For pets with assessments like aggression, fear aggression, or separation anxiety — where keeping them at home in familiar surroundings, with a caregiver who understands their specific protocol, isn’t just preferred. It’s essential. Including scrupulously timed medications and safety strategies like crate-and-rotate.
AGING PETS
Senior & geriatric pets with increasing needs
For families who’ve reached the point where a previous caregiving arrangement — a pet sitter, a neighbor, a grad student — simply isn’t enough anymore. Changing mobility, greater time and attention needs, and the necessity for skilled health monitoring all require a more qualified presence.
SERIOUS ILLNESS & END OF LIFE
Pets receiving palliative or hospice care
For families with a medically fragile pet — whether due to a progressive or terminal diagnosis, or advanced age-related decline — who need to be away without compromise. The top-tier care your pet’s status demands, provided by someone credentialed in every aspect of animal hospice and palliative care.
What to expect
Every overnight stay is built around your pet’s specific needs — their temperament, their health status, their daily routine, their medications, and what makes them feel safe and settled. Nothing is generic. Nothing is assumed.
— Full adherence to your pet’s established routine — feeding schedule, dietary requirements and restrictions, medications, exercise, enrichment, and any specific handling requirements
— Strict adherence to prescription diets, therapeutic foods, and any dietary restrictions — because what your pet eats is part of their medical care, not an afterthought
— Fear Free handling throughout every interaction — minimizing anxiety, stress, and fear for your pet’s physical and emotional wellbeing
— Active monitoring of your pet’s comfort, behavior, and condition — with the clinical knowledge to recognize changes that matter
— Medication administration, including complex or time-sensitive regimens — managed with precision and care
— Personalized updates so you know exactly how your pet is doing — without having to ask
— For pets receiving palliative or hospice care: full application of Lorrie’s hospice training, quality of well-being monitoring, and the same standard of attentive care provided during in-home support visits
— For pets with separation anxiety: strict adherence to the established protocol — your pet is never left alone, with a family-arranged relief caregiver covering Lorrie’s 3.5-hour break
Families often say they regret not reaching out sooner. The care is exceptional — and the peace of mind is something you have to experience to fully appreciate.
What it looks like
Every overnight stay is built around one of two frameworks, depending on what your pet actually needs. Not sure which one fits? That’s exactly what the first conversation is for.
FRAMEWORK ONE
Overnight & Day Visits
Lorrie stays overnight, then returns for pre-scheduled visits during the day. At minimum one midday visit is included as a standard of care — most families opt for two or more visits depending on their pet’s needs and schedule.
IDEAL FOR
Younger, healthy pets who are comfortable with some solo time during the day and don’t require continuous supervision.
MOST CHOSEN
FRAMEWORK TWO
Overnight Continuous Care
Lorrie stays overnight and remains present throughout the day — with one 3.5-hour break during which a family-arranged relief caregiver steps in. Your pet is never without qualified supervision. This framework offers what families value most: sustained time, attention, and presence.
IDEAL FOR
Pets with separation anxiety (where the protocol requires they are never left alone), anxious pets, senior and geriatric pets needing extra supervision and companionship, and pets of any age receiving palliative or hospice care.
Pricing for both frameworks is discussed during the initial conversation — it varies based on your pet’s needs, the length of stay, and the level of care involved. To get started, send an email and tell us about your pet.
Service area
GREATER ANN ARBOR — IN-PERSON ONLY
Ann Arbor, Dexter, Chelsea, Pinckney, Ypsilanti, Canton, Northville, Plymouth, Whitmore Lake, Howell, Brighton, South Lyon & surrounding areas.
If something here resonated — whether your pet is healthy and thriving, navigating a complex diagnosis, or anywhere in between — the next step is simple. Send an email and tell us about your pet. You don’t need to know which framework is right or have every detail sorted. That’s what the first conversation is for.
The best first step is an email.
When families first reach out, they’re often overwhelmed and carrying a lot. Email gives you the space to share what’s happening at your own pace — and gives Lorrie the space to respond thoughtfully, with real information, rather than reactively. It’s how this works best, from the very first contact.
Lorrie personally reads and responds to every email — typically within a couple of hours, and always the same day. You will not be waiting.
Your pet deserves the best possible care when you can’t be there. So do you.