Cat Sitters in Hellidon

Steven & Judith
-64% off
7.2 miles away
Limited time deal
5.00
• 10 reviews
/night 85.00
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Steven, Judith and their daughters Rose and Esther were wonderful house sitters. We communicated well from the very beginning and had daily updates during our time away. On our return, the house was beautifully clean and tidy. Judith had baked a delicious apple pie to welcome us home. The girls took on responsibilities for the chickens and ducks as well as the honesty box at the top of the drive. Steven did a great job in the garden. He picked all of our apples that would otherwise have fallen in the windy conditions and rescued our crop of carrots from marauding rabbits. The lawns were also nicely mowed. This had been a rather challenging house sit for various reasons. Firstly, our beloved Rosie had sadly died just a few weeks before they came. Una was therefore on her own so she enjoyed walks and lots of loving attention. Secondly, one of horses, Cubley, developed a sore hind foot just a few days before the house sit which necessitated both Blue and Cubley being on stable rest throughout the house sit. Even though this was an unexpected level of responsibility, they took on the challenge willingly and coped well in the circumstances. Finally, we had been having some unresolved issues with the heating system. Steven showed initiative and contacted the heating engineers independently. Given these unexpected issues, Steven, Judith and their girls were wonderful and took everything on board as far as they could. We are sorry that they had more responsibilities than originally agreed and hope that this did not detract from their experience. We would certainly welcome them back to our home at a time when hopefully circumstances are back to normal.

Sitter available from Oct 1
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Kevin
We highly recommend Francisco! He took great care of our two cats and the house was spotless when we got back home. Francisco is a kind, very personable and interesting chap who obviously loves animals and we think that he particularly bonded with little Marley. We would not hesitate to get him to sit for us again and have offered to give him first refusal on any bookings that we make in the future. Thoroughly recommend! Many thanks again Paco, we will no doubt meet up again!
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Joris
Tyler and Kimberly are great pet sitters and genuinely love the animal they are caring for. They were super sweet with our cat Zari and sent many cute pictures of them playing with her and being present. We ran into a delay which caused us to be back a week later and they stepped up and stayed longer without hesitation, for which we're very grateful for. 

For us it was the first time using this platform, and while we think the pet caring was good,  I'm disappointed with the lack of transparency and communication. My car was used beyond the agreed-upon reparking for street sweeping, and there were multiple parking citations on my car. Whille I have faith that Tyler and Kimberly will take care of this as promised, none of this was communicated or forwarded to me. I had to call the parking enforcement and scan my license plate on multiple platforms to figure out the current status of all these. Had this been communicated as it was happening, it wouldn't have been an issue, but to come home and finding out about this on my own is not ideal, to say the least.

That being said, the house was left clean, our cat was happy, and they took great care of her, which was our main concern when we went on our trip!

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