Karen P.
Karen P.
Contact for House Sitting
from $40 per night
Highlights
Pet care experience
Animals have my ❤️ #snuggles
I have been dog sitting for over ten years now. My family has a boxer. I enjoy loving and caring for their animals and looking forward to having many more families to serve!! I'm very organized, reliable, studious, clean, easy going, fun, caring, loving and sufficient with time. I'm a teacher at a high school and previously worked at a preschool. I pride myself on caring and providing a safe and loving environment for animals and children. Is very important to provide a healthy, clean, loving and safe environment for animals to live and play to the full life possible. I love playing, taking dogs on walks and most importantly snuggle time!! I'm also available for holidays I'm very flexible with times. I'm very detail-oriented and so I like to be on point as to what clients needs are for their pets. I look forward to helping you in any way possible. I'm a preschool teacher Monday to Friday. I'm off on weekends/major holidays. I'm able to work around my work schedule to help you for the pet needs. 😁 I always go out with the pet's to keep a close eye on them as the do they business. I also prefer to say it the client's house to make it more comfortable for the pets to be in their own environment in to just snuggle and be there for them as much as possible!
Qualifications
Pets
Safety, trust & environment
With my family's dog we have a fence that he's able to go out and stay for a while outside as well as in the home. I love when he sleeps with me at night. We also give him dry food and wet food as well. We spoil him rotten with just about anything he wants and he loves giving us kisses ❤️
Ratings and reviews
I hate to say we were unfortunately disappointed with Karen. I am admittedly an overprotective dog parent but we made it clear before booking any dog sitter that we want someone who is available to be at home a good portion of the day as my fiancé works from home and that is what they are used to. She told us that was fine as she was off work for the summer but that seems inaccurate. Although we have it listed that the dogs should go out every 4 hours, she was often gone 5, 8 and even over 10 hours (we have an outside front doorbell camera that shows when she left and returned). We also have a backyard security camera that showed how often they were taken out back and it was infrequent even when she was home. We certainly understand people have lives and things to do but felt she lied to us when we made our preferences clear prior to booking. After having to request that she walk the dogs because it appeared they weren’t being taken outside often, she would only take one of the two dogs on a walk that lasted 3-7 minutes but never longer. One day she took a pictures of them in the morning and then sent it later in the day to act like she was with them when I know she wasn’t home. While a nice girl who did feed the dogs and leave our home clean, we would not book again
Karen provided exceptional care for our 16-year-old mini Aussie with CHF, so we could enjoy a care-free night out. We were nervous to leave Tesla Elizabeth because she has a robust medication schedule, but Karen administered her medications and meals like a pro. When we arrived home, our old lady was calm, well fed, and happy. We already discussed booking Karen again in a few weeks.
Karen is my #1 choice for staying with my babies! I rest easy knowing they are loved while I am away. So grateful for her!
Karen was great with our babies. Even our shy pup was following her around by day two. Karen kept us updated on the days daily and we would definitely use her again!
Karen was great! We felt like our dog was very well cared for. We got lots of pictures and she was able to provide updates whenever we reached out.
Great communication and took great care of our fur babies and home!
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Schedule
I try my best to be flexible and available as much as possible. When I do a meet and greet I be able to go more into detail with yours in my schedules.