House & Pet Sitting
Increasing numbers of homeowners are not comfortable displacing their pets or leaving their homes empty when they travel. The solution is to engage a house sitter. Pets get to live in the comfort of their own home, while criminals and would be thieves are deterred by having someone in residence. Having a full time presence in the house also helps avoid any issues arising from frozen pipes, power outages or tropical storms.
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The House Sitting Websites:
We have been house sitting full time since April of 2012.
The two websites we have used to secure the majority of our assignments are:
Click here to Find a Housesitter
Click here to Become a Housesitter.
Country Specific House Sitting Websites
These websites focus their listings to one specific country. They have house/petsitter listings in specific countries and cover Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., and the U.K.
Australia:
Aussie Housesitters AussieHousesitters.com.au
Mindahome Australia Mindahome.com.au/
US and Canada:
Housesitters America HousesittersAmerica.com
MindaHome USA Mindahome.com
Housesitters Canada HousesittersCanada.com
New Zealand:
KiwiHousesitters KiwiHousesitters.co.nz
United Kingdom & Europe:
House Sitters UK HouseSittersUK.co.uk
Mindahome UK Mindahome.co.uk
Housesit Match Housesitmatch.com
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Pet First Aid Training:
Michael has Pet First Aid Training Certification from The Pet Professional Guild.
As part of the certification process Michael had to submit several videos demonstrating essential skills:
The first video demonstrates bandaging with Elizabeth
The second is a CPR demonstration with Montgomery
Then there is how to apply an emergency muzzle to Max
and finally, determining Little Bit’s pulse rate