Dog Sitting25 Days

Fifty visits across twenty-five days, arranged entirely around you. One long stretch for a month abroad or a spell in hospital, or twenty-five days drawn down across the year by a household that simply travels a lot.

This is the one for people who have stopped treating pet cover as an occasional problem to solve. If you're away for work every few weeks, or you have a December trip and an April one and a scatter of long days in between, buying the days up front at our best rate means you're never again arranging cover in a hurry.

Over fifty visits we come to know your dog properly, and that's true however the days are spaced. We learn his normal — the bowl, the walk, the difference between him being quiet and being off — and he learns us. A dog who has met the same person twenty times over a year isn't being left with a stranger each time you go; that's a meaningfully different experience for him than a new sitter every trip.

If you do use a long block, it also means someone is in your house fifty times while you're away, which is worth something on its own.

Nobody sleeps over — and for a long block, please be certain about this. This is the booking where getting it wrong costs the most. A dog who cannot settle alone should not be doing weeks of it, and we would far rather point you at a live-in sitter or a boarding kennel than take a month's money for the wrong service. If you're unsure, talk to us before booking rather than after.

Twenty-five days at R490 each, with 40% back — the largest return we offer on anything — valid twelve months from purchase.

Before we come

We visit twice a day. We don't stay the night. It's worth being clear about that before you book, because "pet sitting" means different things at different companies. Your animal is at home in their own house, with someone coming morning and evening — not boarded, and not supervised around the clock. For most pets that's a better arrangement than a kennel or a cattery. For some it isn't, and we'd rather you knew which yours is now than find out while you're away. Write everything down for us. Feeding times, how much, which bowl, which cupboard, what they're not allowed, where the lead lives, which door sticks, what the alarm code is, and what "normal" looks like for your animal. You know all of it without thinking; we don't know any of it. The households where sitting goes best are the ones that leave a list on the fridge. Leave us your vet's details and a number you'll actually answer. Also a second contact — a neighbour, a family member — for the times you're on a plane or out of signal. We hope never to need any of it. Tell us about the animals we might not see. The nervous cat who hides under the bed all three days, the second dog who's fine with people but not with strangers arriving, the tortoise in the garden. Nothing is too small to mention. Tell us about medication, and be specific. What it is, when, how much, how it's given, and what happens if a dose is missed. Your days don't have to be consecutive. A package is a pot of days to draw on, not one fixed booking. Use ten in a row for a holiday, or one here and one there across the year as work and life demand. Either way, book as far ahead as you can — a single day at short notice we can often manage, but a run of days over December is worth locking in early. Enough food, litter and medication for the whole booking, plus a bit spare. Across twenty-five days, something will come up. A vet visit, a heatwave, a gate that breaks, a delivery you forgot about. Leave us a local contact with authority to make a decision, and tell us in writing what you're happy for us to authorise without asking — including a rough spending limit for a vet. Check your insurance and ours. Someone holding your key across a year, or through a month away, is a different arrangement from an afternoon of it. Worth a conversation before the first booking, not after. Book the visits around your actual travel. Tell us real arrival and departure days rather than booking dates, so the first and last visits of each block land where they're needed. Keep an eye on the balance and the clock. Twenty-five days is a lot to place, and the package is valid twelve months from purchase. Spread thin across a year that's comfortable; left until the last quarter it isn't. We'll tell you what's left whenever you ask.