Trustworthy, Caring Animal Lovers

About this sitter

Hello! We are a Canadian couple, retired over 9 years, adventurous, fit and young at heart. We have extensive experience with recent home and pet sitting and enjoy having the opportunity to care for others’ pets at a time when we can’t have our own. We truly appreciate the win-win nature of the exchange, providing the peace of mind that home & pet owners need to have a worry-free vacation, while meeting our own needs for accommodation at times, as well as the nourishment provided by time spent getting to know and caring for pets. Although we recently settled down in Comox, BC, Canada, we still care often for your pets and home in exchange for accommodation. However, we have introduced a fee for when we are not seeking accommodation, but sitting in our home area of Comox, Canada, which begins at $70/day to stay in the home and care for your pet (depending on the number of pets and the duties requested), however upon discussion, we will arrive at a suitable arrangement.

We are enormous animal lovers — I doubt your pets will get better care and attention than we will give them. We also live cleanly and will always leave the home well cared for and clean.

Why they want to house sit

House and pet sitting is a beautiful addition to our world-experiencing lifestyle! While we love to move about and see the sights, we also love opportunities to be homebodies and live the stable life of caring for a home and pets for a time. Pet and home sitting facilitates this perfectly. We are both big animal lovers and are quite rejuvenated by our time spent caring for and sharing ‘pet love’. We have also made life long friendships with home owners and their pets through our house sitting experiences, and appreciate the opportunity to stay in touch with how our temporary charges are doing.

Their experience

We have experience - from 2015 to present on Vancouver Island, and we have completed almost 60 sits worldwide. Please check out our 5 star reviews at kathperreault.net World Encounters, under the menu heading Encounters Home & Pet Sitting. We also have reviews posted at this site, and THS, House Sitters Canada and Housecarers.

So the reply to this question is yes, we are experienced, and this is only the beginning! For stories about our home and pet sitting experiences, see our website.

What can they bring to the assignment

We are responsible, honest, clean, nonsmoking, physically fit, non partying animal lovers with many 5 star reviews and references (link to our website listed here). We love to hike, kayak, cycle, do photography, read, spend time interacting with cats and dogs, and we enjoy a balance of social and solitary time. We are previous home and pet owners and know the responsibility involved in caring for both.

We consider pets family members, to be treated so — your pets’ care will take priority when we are sitting. We have owned homes with a pool and hot tub and are fully conversant in their care. We have done a fair amount of gardening, harvesting, pruning and lawn care.

We are retired, Kath from health/education assistant in a secondary school and Aaron as a school psychologist and UBC professor. We are local to BC in summer and travel most winters to warm countries. We love the process of providing photos, videos and anecdotes to the HO while they are on vacation, of their pets’ daily life (if desired). We are both strong communicators, as was required in both our previous employment in education.

With us, you can trust that your home and pets will be well loved and cared for while you have peace of mind on your vacation.