Category Pet Sitting

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Learn About HouseSit Match Vet’s 24/7 Pet Safety Net for Total Peace of Mind

As a petowner, ensuring your pets receive seamless care while you are away is a top priority. With our Vet’s 24/7 Advice Line if you sign up for HouseSitMatch.com’s Choice Membership, you gain immediate access to a dedicated support from…

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Best House Sitting in High Wycombe: 6 Surprising Things to Discover

Housesitting in High Wycombe offers a rare combination for housesitters that’s hard to find anywhere else in the home counties: sprawling Chiltern countryside on your doorstep, a fast train into central London, and a surprising depth of history hiding behind…

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Best House Sitting in Richmond: Ted Lasso’s Richmond

Many of our regular housesitters gravitate towards particular locations. House sitting in Richmond has long been one of Kelly Hayes-Raitt’s favourite things to do, for all kinds of reasons. In this article she reviews her most recent exploration of that…

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Essential Animal Care Petsitter Top Tips

If you’re considering becoming a petsitter you need to ensure you have an understanding of essential animal care before you begin. Here are some petsitter top tips to help you assess if you are ready. Read on to learn more.…

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Happy Housesitters on French Leave: A Month in Southern France for £1,250

As sitters go, David and I – founder of HouseSit Match and long suffering other half – have completed a fair few gigs between us. Happy housesitters we are and we simply love discovering new places; we especially love housesitting…

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Housesitting Zen: How a Misty London Morning Gave me Peace

Discover how one HouseSit Match housesitter found her housesitting zen on a misty London morning — exploring hidden gems, a stunning Japanese pagoda in Battersea Park, and the multicultural city streets that make every sit an adventure. London gives me…

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The Art and Importance of Staying Flexible: Housesitter’s Guide

Seasoned full time housesitters usually master the art, understanding the importance of staying flexible in housesitting by about the third month. In this housesitters’ guide Maria Vano shares her top tips on why and how keeping a flexible approach, even…

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