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House Sitting Guide for Sitters and Owners | Tips for a Smooth Sit
An experienced sitter gives his House-sitting Guide Cardinal rules for the best experience. Learn from his experience of full time houses-sitting.
New meta description - A practical house sitting guide with clear tips for sitters and homeowners. Learn the core rules, how to avoid problems and how to build trust from day one.
Housesitting trust and the kindness of strangers
What is housesitting trust and how does it vary from regular trust you have in other people? Making any kind of housesitting arrangement where you exchange services rather than money requires a degree of built-in trust. Homeowners inviting sitters into…
Improve quality of life at home – Improve air quality
It’s a little known fact that air pollution in your property can be just as harmful as it is outdoors. It certainly can affect your quality of life, health and wellbeing of the inhabitants. The average homeowner spends 88% of…
Choosing a Petsitter for Your Dogs
Choosing a petsitter is a considered process. Your pets and especially your dogs need care and companionship. They are intelligent and sometimes needy pets. Here are a number of special considerations that might influence your decision. In particular, we offer…
Our pets chose us and our unusual cave home in Spain
Most pet owners choose their pets either as young vulnerable animals needing a home or rescue animals. In this case our pet owners describe to us how they were chosen by their pets when they moved into their unusual cave…
Marlow housesitters keep the neighbourhood and pets safe
The search for Marlow housesitters, or petsitters anywhere, is something we can help you with. From time to time we interview our members to better understand how they found us and how we help them. Recently, Martin told us about…
Harrogate housesitting for an Akita
Experienced house sitters Mike and Diane, known as Travelloafers, applied for a Harrogate housesitting assignment on HouseSitMatch. Little did they know that the description of a resident ‘large dog’ they’d be caring for would lead to unexpected and enjoyable adventures.…
Pet Memory Perles
A pet memory can provoke profound emotions. When pets pass over the rainbow bridge whether at a young age or in mature years their souvenirs are treasured. Photographs and family films all help us to remember the character and personality…
Petsitters & Business Travel: How to connect with Pets
If you travel a great deal for either work or leisure you may already be regular user of our petsitters and housesitting service. Anna Naylor from Maiden Voyage one of our partners, a social network that makes business travel safe…