We are pet sitters and also pet parents. We live in Austin, Texas but travel frequently to the New York City area for medical treatment (It’s nothing serious. We’re trying to grow our family via IVF🤞🏽). Using the Trusted HouseSitters platform has helped us afford this adventure, and we are so grateful.
In the past, we have secured sits that allow us to remain in the NYC area for a month at a time. This summer, we secured sits to be in NYC for 2 full months (all of May & June), which allowed us to plan and prepare for medical treatments that will take place during that duration. We are already in NYC & have flights to return to Texas at the end of June. We also secured a lovely pet sitter through THS to care for our two dogs in our Texas home.
Unfortunately, last night we discovered that our month-long sit in June in NYC has been cancelled. We understand that things happen, & we very much appreciate the notice now rather than later. But this places us in a very difficult predicament.
Returning to Texas a month early would displace our pet sitter & force us to cancel our treatments in June. Because the June sit was cancelled with 3+ weeks before the start date, we are not eligible for any help from the THS platform, since they claim we have been given “plenty of notice.”
We are applying to all relevant listings that pop up in our saved searches and are hoping for the best. But what else can we do? Do you have any other platforms to recommend?
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