We will be in UK/Europe/N.Africa starting March 27,2025 for 9 months. We would love to petsit/housesit or hotelsit some while we are there. Right now, the only dates we are NOT available are June as we have an Italian culinary tour booked then. I will update non-available dates as we book other adventures and housesits.
We were previously on another site as home owners in So. California and we had numerous housesitters stay with Harley, our fragile rescue shitzu whom we loved dearly while he was here on earth. We also owned/managed 2 hotels of 20 and 40 rooms in a resort area and used lodge sitters when we needed to travel. We are also experienced sailors with 11 years experience up to 42' both Cats and monohull and know the daily care required to maintain a boat(or home) in a salt water environment.
We are finally at a point in life (Both retired early, financially-stable, healthy mid- 50s with grown children and no grandbabies in the foreseeable future) where we can help other pet parents the way that other housesitters helped us when we had to travel, so we would like to give back. We also prefer travel where we can experience the local way of life and meet new people, over the touristy type of travel.
We have lots of experience in caring for pets (both healthy and sick) and we’ve pet/house sat for several friends, as well as three different 1 to 2 month-long petsits for multiple cats and dogs in Mexico via another site. We have also completed three 6-month housesits and four 2- month housesits in Mexico without pets since We've done many more unofficial sits with pets at friends' homes or kept their pet at our home while they traveled.
We have owned our own home, rental properties and small hotels so we are capable of handling all kinds of property issues. We’ve vacationed off-the-grid for extended periods so understand cistern water systems, solar and generators too. We have lived in the US, Mexico, Great Britain and Germany so we are sensitive to observing cultural differences in other locales and speak enough Spanish and German (and of course, English) to communicate basics and Danyel speaks a little French also. She is currently busy learning some Portuguese, Italian and Greek to prepare for our trip.
We both have global entry for the US which requires background checks and Danyel is a registered nurse who is required by nursing board regulations to be fingerprinted and police background checked every 10 years. We also served as child foster parents several years ago which required further background checks. Robert recently retired as the chief operating officer for a small biotech company, and prior to 2021 was the VP of a large biotech manufacturing company.
We’d love to come care for your home and pets so that you can have a relaxing time away with no worries.
References available on request