Hello. We’re Janet & Donald and we’ve just joined and are finding our way around the website and the forum.
We’re a retired couple who met in 2021 and married in 2023. Prior to that we, separately, had years of experience of caring for pets, both our own and those of others. Now we have a chance to both care for pets and indulge our passion for travel. We’re not into doing the ‘touristy’ things and the idea of travel for the purpose of looking after pets in their own home, which will be a new environment for us, greatly appeals to both of us.
We’re pleased to be here and hope we can link up with many of you in the weeks and months ahead.
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Hello @theglenfargians, and welcome to the forum where you are going to find so much helpful and informative information from our members who are here to assist you along the way with your questions and/or concerns.
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Hi @TheGlenfargians ,
I also want to welcome you and wish you congratulations on your marriage!
Get ready for fun and adventure!
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Hello @TheGlenfargians and welcome to TrustedHousesitters and to the Community Forum and Congratulations on your marriage!
I just had a peruse of your profile and it looks great and I see that you have a reference on there already which will certainly help when it comes to securing your first sit.
I have attached a thread you should find helpful
If you have any questions at all, do not hesitate to ask, we are all more than happy to help.
Sorry, missed your question about where we want to travel. At the moment, as we’re just starting out, we are focusing on Scotland and the rest of the UK. But we’d like to move on to France, Spain, Italy etc (i.e. rest of Europe).
D & J
Welcome. My husband and I have been Housesitting for about 12 years and discovered Trusted Housesitters when I met someone at an event who couldn’t get a housesitter so we volunteered and discovered they were members of TH. The rest is history.
We did our first Housesit in Scotland last year and fell in love with Scotland and heading back to do another Housesit there.
Hi @TheGlenfargians it’s reassuring to see a near-neighbour on such an international group. We’re near Perth and fairly new here too. We’re registered as home/pet owners, so if you’re ever looking for a local gig, it would be familiar territory!
Hope you enjoy the experience, there seem to be great opportunities out there. It blows my mind that when we go to New Zealand, our sitters will be from Australia. I didn’t ever imagine that.
Thanks for your message, Janet. Good to hear from others.
We seem to have been quite lucky in that after one rejection, we have had four HOs looking to accept us as sitters. We hope to be able to do Housesits in mainland Europe (France, Spain, Italy, Austria, etc) once we find our feet on the site. I’m delighted that instead of pets coming to me (as happened with Barking Mad), I can now go to them. It’s a win:win for me.
@Scottish_cat_posse - What’s not to love about this? We’re Australian sitting for British HO in Spain and American HO in France. All the pets understand English
Hello there. Good to hear from you. We’re the new kids on the block and feeling our way on the website at the moment. However, glad that, after one rejection, we got 4 offers for sits in Scotland over the summer. Looking to get sits in mainland Europe in the future.
We’re Australian sitting for British HO in Spain and American HO in France. All the pets understand English 