I may need a house-sitter at fairly short notice as unfortunately I am unwell and am in and out of hospital. also., when my husband comes back from work (he works away a month at a time) it would be nice to have someone trustworthy to look after our house and pets and also the maintenance of the garden and pool. The sitting would sometimes be short and other times for up to 2 weeks. The main worry is getting someone trusrtworthy for my animals and someone we can trust with our home. We have copious amounts of parking space and also a pool and very large garden. Our pets mean a lot to us and I would expext the sitter to treat them with the same love we show them and if that means vet visits, then that is oart of the deal too. ( although our vet would keep the bill until our return so there would be no payment to make) I would prefer to use the same sitter for each time I needed the service and would need to meet them and see how my animals feel about them before agreeing to the house-sitter.