Jill & Brian

Caring, reliable, mature couple, fully vaccinated and wanting to travel & enjoy animal company. We have been pet sitting since 2018, through Trusted House Sitters in the UK (you can check out our reviews on the website by searching under Plymouth, UK - trustedhousesitters.com/house-and-pet-sitters/united-kingdom/england/plymouth/l/364440/) and have over 50 five star reviews.

We are a mature couple with lots of life experience. We are friendly, easy going with a sense of humour. We enjoy walking, kayaking and dancing. Boggles is good with DIY skills, fixing cars etc so is good in case of emergencies. Jill is pretty good with gardening skills and, although might not know all the plants in the garden, certainly knows how to keep a house clean & tidy.

We love animals of all kinds. We have had quite a lot of experience now, with different kinds of pets and farm animals. We had a cat called Wookie, who was a prolific hunter so we are used to picking up remains & catching live mice! For our first house sit in Wales, we looked after two pigs (a very large Suffolk sow and a smaller Kune Kune pig), two horses, 4 cats, 2 Guinea pigs and some tropical fish - quite a menagerie but great fun and we loved it!

Since then we have also cared for Labradors, Springer Spaniels, Retrievers, Leonbergers, Beagles, Lurchers, Vizslas, Cockapoos, Terriers (of different kinds), several rescue dogs and a variety of small and large dogs. We have lots of experience with cats too, including Siamese/Burmese.

We are used to administering medication to cats & dogs. We also have experience with farm animals including chickens, runner ducks (hilarious), sheep, small and large pigs, goats, horses, donkeys, alpacas and rheas(!).

We have mucked out hens, goats and donkeys, so not afraid of hard work and aware of the realities of having farm animals. We have also looked after smaller pets such as guinea pigs, rabbits and fish.

We started petsitting as, when we went away a few years ago to visit our son in NZ, we found it a great comfort knowing our cat, Wookie, was being cared for along with the house, by a trusted friend. We like to give others that same opportunity to travel knowing their pets and homes are in safe hands. We also like the idea of living in the local community of the place where we are staying rather than in an anonymous hotel.

We started travelling around the UK, pet sitting full time in May 22 and traveled to NZ & Australia for four months earlier this year. We did 3 sits in NZ through Kiwi House sitters and 3 sits through Aussie House Sitters. We are looking to sit in Europe in 2024. We have our own car.
We hope to meet you soon!

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