If you're leaving a pet behind while traveling,
or you want extra security for your home while away,
we'd love to help.

Leave your pet in the comfort of home, enjoying full-time loving care from a highly sought-after and experienced couple who have over five years of consecutive assignments behind them. While caring for your furry family members, we will also provide live-in security for your home during your absence. Enjoy peace of mind knowing that your pets and home are safe, secure, and well cared for.

We're a professional couple, married for almost 20 years, and we're very quiet, responsible, friendly, dependable, non-smokers and non-drinkers. As experienced house & pet sitters, we will take exceptional care of your home, pets, plants, mail, and any other task you may require, as though it is our own: each home and animal is treated with commitment and loving attention, and we take pride in returning your home the way we found it.


We adore animals and would love to spoil yours while you're away!

We work from 'home' through the internet and so have tended to spend more time with the animals we care for than most owners do. They receive our full attention and devotion, and your pet's status as royalty isn't compromised in the least!



We have a joyful lifetime of experience with animals and we're used to regular walking, bathing, feeding, "cuddle / play sessions", vet visits and medicating (if needed).


A little bit of history...

When we first started housesitting again in 2005, we were in the process of choosing a place to settle down after a number of years working at sea as art gallery directors (choosing between the Vancouver and Okanagan areas where we have family), and we yearned to share the unique company of animals again. As we received more and more requests for our help though, we were thrilled to hear we were making such a positive difference for people and their pets, as each person expressed the tremendous relief and peace of mind they felt with us in their home. We discovered that we absolutely loved our lifestyle of constant animal companionship and ongoing change. It would seem that our lives at sea prepared us well, since change comes every seven days on a cruise ship! Before sailing through the Caribbean, Bermuda, Europe, and Hawaii with work, we originated from the Okanagan and from Vancouver - where we lived in the Kits Point, Point Grey, and Grouse Mountain areas.

Over the course of our housesitting years, we took a few short breaks to purchase and renovate properties in order to offer quality rental homes to Alberta tenants. After four years of providing homes for others, it was finally our turn... in 2010, we decided to finally settle down into a home of our own close to family in Kelowna, while accepting only very occasional house sit requests from previous clients. And now, we've come full circle: after 5 years of being "settled", we find ourselves missing the level of change and variety we once had, and are opening our lives once again to providing care of the "hearth and heart" in Vancouver and the Okanagan.

As home owners and landlords with ample hands-on renovation experience, we are home-savvy and well equipped to deal with any unexpected home emergencies, should they arise.


The benefits...

Our first house & pet sitting experience was a surprise request over 15 years ago from the owner of a large lakefront B&B where we'd been staying. Since then, we've seen the many benefits to home owners - both with and without pets - of having someone stay in their home while they're away:

♡ In terms of home security, just having someone living in your home, taking in the mail, turning lights on and off, answering the phone, and basically maintaining a lived-in look, deters potential burglars.

♡ If any unexpected problems should arise, there's someone there to manage the situation, minimize it, and keep you up to date.

♡ Also very important is keeping your house insurance policy active - many people are unaware that most home insurance is void for any claims made when a home is left unoccupied for 2 weeks or more.

♡ If you have pets, they're able to stay in their own comfortable surroundings, and you enjoy peace of mind knowing that there's someone there full time to care for them and offer constant companionship - rather than imposing on friends or family to come and visit for only an hour or so every day.


You choose what you pay!

We structure our fees in a somewhat unique way... we ask for a basic minimum amount - often less than but sometimes equal to the cost of having someone come for just a half-hour visit and/or a half-hour walk per day - and leave it up to our clients to choose an amount above that that they feel reflects good value for themselves and for us. It hasn't been uncommon for clients to offer 4x our base rate, but we have also had some folks who can only budget for the lower amount. As long as you feel good and we've been comfortable during our stay, we're happy.


We offer you an extensive and impressive list of references.

We understand that some people can initially feel uncertain about allowing relative strangers to look after their home and pets, and we're more than happy to meet with you and your pets in person, as well as provide a lengthy list of references.

We're sure that once you have us care for your home, you'll not only recommend us to your friends and family, you'll also be excited to call us back any time you have to travel again!

Please keep in mind: from the time we started house sitting in 2005 we were 100% booked, with the majority of bookings made 5 - 24 months in advance. For this reason, we encourage you to contact us as early as possible to ensure availability.


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Reduce your pet's trauma
Avoid imposing on your friends and family
Keep your home safe by keeping it occupied
Maintain the requirements of your house insurance policy

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We're often mistaken for looking younger than we are, so it may be important
to let you know that we're in our mid-40's...