Donna and Darren (we care!)

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Sorry currently recovering from back surgery.

We are an active couple mid 60s, sadly we just lost our 17yo dog in 2025. First time in 35 years without a dog in the home, so it's a bit sad for us at the moment. Having always had housesitters ourselves we thought we'd like to do the same for others before committing to another pet.

Happy to look after small dogs and/or cats.

We own our home and are very houseproud. We are very in tune with animals and definitely don't ignore any changes in behaviour or general health. We like to keep to routine when it comes to caring for animals.

Donna volunteers with animal rescue in an admin capacity and has done for several years. Donna is also registered with madpaws petsitting but not recently active as our own dog needed to be the only dog in her later years. Regularly does housevisits to a cat in our local area when her humans go away.

Darren has his blue card etc. As he is a Santa during the Christmas season at major shopping centres (but with lots of padding!)

We are retired from our formal careers.

Non smokers and non drinkers.

Registered 12 months ago and have done 4 housesits. The most recent was to look after 2 Siamese cats in Sydney (Christmas 2025).

In between times we have fostered 4 dogs until they found their forever homes. Read more...