After 28 years of doggie parenting, my wife and I have started mixing travel with dogsitting. We have just completed our second five-month trip through Europe, dogsitting over 1/2 of the time. In our first year we enjoyed the fabulous company of Beau and Sox in Port Rush Northern Ireland, Muffin in Budapest, Truman in Interlaken Switzerland and Cooper in Southern Spain. My wife wasn't ready to come back to Canadian winter so is doing another three sits in California to extend her adventure another 6 weeks. In our second season, we had a repeat sits with Beau and Socks in Northern Ireland, and Cooper in his new home in Gibraltar. We spent a month with the adorable Frankie in Caparica Portugal, and shorter stints with Leo in Seville, and Jerome and Cardy in Belgrade Serbia. We finished the season with four yorkies, Minnie Mitzee Lillie and Niko in Cyprus and two more yorkies, Peanut and Heidi in Malta. I am excited to be back in the Koots for the next several months and looking forward to welcoming returning pups and new canine friends into our home and treat them like family, so you can have a worry-free vacation knowing they will be well cared for. I am retired and spend most of my time at home. My wife, a long-term volunteer with the BC SPCA including several years on the board of directors, works at home so 24-hour-a-day care is easy to provide if needed when she is not dog-sitting elsewhere. In 2022 we lost our 16-year-old lab Koda who spent the last two years of his life in a geriatric condition so are very comfortable with and well-equipped to care for seniors. We are in a rural setting with several fabulous options for walking nearby.