Category Archives: "Professional Pet-Sitters"

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11 Aug, 2023

Good Alternative to Kennels: House-Sitting

Every pet owner worries about what to do with their pet when they leave home for either a holiday or for a work trip.  In this article we share with you some ideas on a good alternative to kennels for your pet safe keeping. Seeking an alternative to kennels Meet Caspian. He’s a two year […]

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1 Jul, 2023

Dog-Sitters Needed..?

Every dog owner thinks about holiday dog sitters. Sometimes the thought and planning for dog sitters needed to care for domestic pets comes before the holiday details. In this article we consider the dog-sitting options for dog owners. Dog-sitters needed One Sunday last summer HouseSit Match attended the Cranbourne Companion Dog Show, in Berkshire, UK. […]

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5 Jun, 2023

Top Tips: Animal Trainer Explains – Why home pet-sitting

Home pet-sitting – a popular alternative to kennels Sheila Hamilton Andrews is a firm believer in home pet-sitting as a pet owner and a clinical animal behaviourist. In this article she tells us how a lifetime of pet care and professional pet study have led her to a belief in home pet-sitting as an ideal […]

17 Sep, 2021

Top Tips to Prepare for a Dog Sitter and Housesitter

Before inviting a new dog-sitter or house-sitter to care for your canine pals, take a moment. Think about how to prepare for the dogsitting. There are steps you need to take prepare both your home and your pets. We have worked together with both Sainsburys Bank and Claire Williams a psychologist and dog behaviour specialist […]

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17 Dec, 2019

Guidelines for a successful pet sitting

If you are a pet owner you share the concerns that many of us have about finding pet sitters. Pet sitting is a big thing for pet owners. Can you find the ideal pet sitter? Are they trustworthy pet sitters? Do they love animals? Will your pets take to them? Pet sitting top tips Are […]

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23 Dec, 2015

The bearable lightness of being stuff-free

A new perspective on being stuff-free It has become something of a cliche to bemoan the modern Western predilection for accumulating stuff. As Tyler Durden so eloquently puts it in Fight Club, ‘The things you own end up owning you’. We are destined to wake up one day and realise that we have a house crammed full […]

8 Dec, 2013

Amy’s Pet-Sitting Blog

A Pet-sitting blog, and a new profession for Amy ex-advertising exec A year ago, almost to the day, I lost my job in Advertising. Don’t feel bad for me; it was a blessing. In actual fact, it was the second job I’d lost in two years, and I decided at that point that I had […]