Energetic animal loving retired couple

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We (Andrew and Nikki) are an energetic, animal loving, former professional, retired couple with a great deal of experience in looking after people’s animals in their own homes.

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We have looked after a variety of animals – dogs both big and small, cats, guinea pigs, cockatiels, as well as bigger animals such as horses and cows in various different locations. Andrew has lived on a farm and has some experience with livestock.

Long walks are Andrew’s speciality and dogs, especially, love him for the amount of exercise he provides.

We live in Canberra but we travel around Australia during the winter months in our small VW Kombi motor home. We have house sitters in the house back home while we are away and we use Mindahome to find sitters, as well as house sitting opportunities for ourselves. We like to break our motor home travels with stints of house sitting in warmer climes. We will have our little Jack Russell cross, Maxi, with us while we travel. She is house trained and is a quiet, obedient and independent little dog. She is little lame due to a spinal condition and we love her very much. She gets on with resident pets, both dogs and cats.

Andrew is a very handy and practical person who has often fixed things in people's homes. He can't bear to see things not working properly and he loves a project.

We will be available from May to September anywhere in Queensland, our preferance, due to the warmth.

The second photo on our profile is of Hugo, the Neopolitan Mastiff whome we looked after in a Brisbane housesit. He was a huge 972 kg) but gentle dog. He and our own small Maxi just ignored each other. Read more...