My Yorkshire is now over 15 years old. He’s still full of spunk but tires more than he used to, and gets stressed out more easily too. We used to board him at a cage free day care in town, and he loved it there. But he’s just not able to do it anymore. Fortunately one of the staff who used to work at the day care — whom he knows and likes — pet sits. So she’ll come stay at our home when we’re on vacation. It’s a good thing, then, that I don’t live in New York. Because pet sitting is illegal in New York City. " Pet lovers are barking mad over a little-known city rule that makes dog-sitting illegal in New York. Health Department rules ban anyone from taking money to care for an animal outside a licensed kennel — and the department has warned a popular pet-sitting app that its users are breaking the law.…The health code bans boarding, feeding and grooming animals for a fee without a kennel license — and says those licenses can’t be issued for private homes." As t...