1. Count on friends
This remains the simplest and safest way: ask your loved ones for help. Either someone who lives close to your home and who can come by regularly to feed and cuddle your companion(s), or someone – for payment or not depending on your relationship or agreement – who will come and stay with you during your stay abroad. Combining home and pet-sitting is an opportunity for you to leave with peace of mind, for the “caretaker”, to get a change of scenery, for your animals, not to suffer (too much) from your absence. . A good plan? teenagers, students on blockade who are delighted to find a haven of peace in exchange for this small service.
Here are some tips for keeping your pet cool:
2. Call on the neighbors
Bad luck, you don’t have anyone close or available or who lives in your area. On Facebook, there are many neighborhood platforms, where residents of the same neighborhood ask a thousand and one questions, among other things, to find good restaurant addresses, ask for advice, offer or request various services, including baby- sitting and… pet-sitting. The advantage: the person lives in your area and will often be recommended by other neighbors. The price will be agreed between the two parties. But be careful: some malicious people use these platforms to identify empty accommodation during the holidays. So never give your departure dates or your address in public mode.
3. Go through an app
A safer way to find a neighbor to meet your needs. The collaborative economy platform Ring Twice (ex List Minut) which inaugurated an “Animals” category, for which requests explode during the summer. Among the services requested, we find the simple walk, but also pet-sitting. This platform helps its users find people close to home ready to help, for a moderate payment. The platform is easy to use: all you have to do is download the app, describe your needs in order to notify any service providers near you, who then come back to the user with their offer. We then choose the one we want, based in particular on the evaluations of other users, visible on the provider’s profile. Easy and affordable, we agree
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