Mount Egerton, Victoria

ID: 4nx6

Single-storey farm house in the country

Name:	Margaret
Nearest major city:	Ballarat
Sitter required for:	26 Mar 2027 4 Apr 20279 days
Pet sitting required:	3 dogs, 2 cats, 15 farm animals
Sitter's pets welcome:	Maybe
Reply rating:	5 out of 5

About this house sitting position in MOUNT EGERTON

We have a small hobby farm of 22 acres complete with the usual menagerie of animals: horses, Lowline cows, 5 miniature harlequin sheep and a miniature goat. While the farm animals look after themselves mostly (and we have fabulous "real" famers next door to keep an eye on things) what we are looking for is a confident person or couple whom we can trust with our more domesticated family: April, Ludo and Alfie (Red Standard, black miniature and white toy poodles respectively); Evie and Zippy (Russian Blue cats); Errol (budgie) and the chickens (too many to name!) Evie, Zippy and Errol live in the farm cottage, not the main house, where you would be. The chickens are obviously in their run!

The dates I have listed are those of our flighs but there is a self contained cottage on the farm that we could use if there was an overlap of time: you would have the modern, attractive four bed main house as your accomodation.

We have two 'deal breakers' and one strong preference.
The deal breakers are that we are after a single person or couple who will be happy here on their own. We don't want our home used as a base for a farm holiday for family and friends.
The other deal breaker is that April is nervous and needs a confident dog person who will know how to win her over. We would need her to meet you before any sit - just to make sure you and she were happy!
The strong preference is for someone who has experience of hobby farms and will do the more routine things like watch for water levels in troughs, and maybe throw our some hay for the ponies. We do have an excellent friend who acts as 'back stop' for us; she would be around.
We obviously have heaps of room to park your caravan or mobile home if required.

Please be in touch if looking after our home while we take our daughter and her family hiome to New Zealand to visit family, sounds like something you would be interested in doing! Read more...