Semi Retired Responsible Pet Lovers

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We are a non-smoking couple in our 50's who have always had our own dog/s at home up until April 2025.

We own our own apartment in Scarborough on the Redcliffe Peninsula and owned 3 homes previously. We have owned a house through our married life (over 30 years) so we know the responsibilities of a homeowner and how hard most of us work to own and maintain our home.

Until we found another housesitting website in 2015 we had rarely travelled because of our pets. We never wanted to put them in a kennel. Now we want to see a bit more of the world but as animal lovers we know how important it is to also be at "home" with pets as we too always expected our house sitters to spend some time with our dog/s. We were always happy when they did a mixture of seeing the area and being home.

We are available to house sit at various times throughout the year and nearly always do a sit over the Christmas break. To stay in a different town or country with pets to care for and be with and see some of the local sights is just paradise.

We have done quite a few marvellous house sits already and have loved every one of them. It is our idea of the perfect vacation, the best of both worlds. My husband works for the Justice Department and has been a government employee for over 30 years plus he was a Justice of the Peace. I have been a yoga teacher for over 20 years and I run my own business. Prior to that I was a legal secretary for many years.

I can refer you to another site where we have 10 5 star reviews for our house sitting. It had been such a blessing for us in our own home to be able to go away for local weekends (many of our sitters were for weekends and long weekends) while our own dog/s were safe at home with a sitter.

We did not do many sits for a few years as our girl was getting older and we did not like to leave her. We will not be getting another dog in the near future as we wish to do some longer sits and we hope that our love of animals will be fulfilled by caring for others' pets. Read more...