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Caring, reliable, mature couple enjoying traveling, all kinds of animal company and meeting new people. We are currently petsitting in Elwood & Brighton. We have family in Melbourne & would like to sit near Melbourne, if possible, and have availability between 26th Jan - 5th Feb 26 and between 9th - 14th March 26.
We have been pet sitting since 2018, through Trusted House Sitters in the UK. We have over 100, five star reviews. You can check out our reviews on the website - see photo reviews attached.
We also have reviews from our previous visit to NZ & Australia on Aussie Housesitters.

We started travelling around the UK, pet sitting full time, three years ago and have had back to back sits throughout. Last time we visited Australia we did a petsit on the Sunshine coast for 3 weeks & in Perth & Busselton.

We are a mature couple with lots of life experience. We are friendly, easy going with a sense of humour. We enjoy walking, kayaking and dancing. Boggles is good with DIY skills, fixing cars etc so is good in case of emergencies. Jill is pretty good with gardening skills and, although might not know all the plants in the garden, certainly knows how to water, prune and keep things ticking over. We know how to keep a house clean & tidy.
We love animals of all kinds. We have had quite a lot of experience now, with different kinds of pets and farm animals. We had a cat called Wookie, who was a prolific hunter so we are used to picking up remains & catching live mice! For our first house sit in Wales, we looked after two pigs (a very large Suffolk sow and a smaller Kune Kune pig), two horses, 4 cats, 2 Guinea pigs and some tropical fish - quite a menagerie but great fun and we loved it!

Since then we have also cared for Labradors, Springer Spaniels, Retrievers, Leonbergers, Beagles, Lurchers, Vizslas, Cockapoos, Terriers (of different kinds), several rescue dogs and a variety of small and large dogs. We have lots of experience with cats too, including Siamese/Burmese.

We are used to administering medication to cats & dogs, including diabetic injections and asthma inhalers. We also have experience with farm animals including chickens, runner ducks (hilarious), sheep, small and large pigs, goats, horses, donkeys, alpacas and rheas(!).

We have mucked out hens, goats and donkeys, so not afraid of hard work and aware of the realities of having farm animals. We have also looked after smaller pets such as guinea pigs, rabbits and fish.

If you would like to speak to us in person we are very happy to WhatsApp or Skype at a time that suits you or to answer any questions you might have via this website. We are currently petsitting in Australia until March 26.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Jill & Boggles
(His real name is Brian but everyone calls him Boggles...if you want to know why get in touch!) Read more...