Karen S.
Karen S.
Contact for Drop-In Visits
from $20 per visit
Highlights
Pet care experience
House & pet sitter Conroe area
Hello! I’m Kas – an experienced pet and house sitter based in Cleveland, Texas who happens to also be Australian. I have lived in Texas since Jan 1 2019. I am currently offering bespoke style house sitting services with personalized care for pets in their own homes throughout Conroe and surrounding areas. Yes, I come with an Australian accent at no extra charge—your pets may not understand me, but they’ll definitely feel like they’re on an episode of Bluey. Every family has different routines, so I’m happy to tailor my visits to suit your pets. Whether they need someone to stay throughout the day, hang around at agreed times, or provide overnight companionship, we’ll work together to create the routine that keeps everyone happy and relaxed. Clients know me for being: • Honest and trustworthy • Calm, patient and attentive • Respectful of both pets and property • Reliable and tidy • The sort of person who treats your home as if it were my own When I’m not caring for pets, I also work as a child-minder (“babysitter”), so caring for homes, children, and animals has become my everyday life. Need a little extra help while you’re away? I’m happy to assist with a few basic household tasks by prior arrangement, such as: • Bringing bins in and out • Collecting mail and deliveries • Watering plants • General home security checks Additional household services can also be arranged separately if needed. To maintain a reliable routine, my house-sitting service includes overnight stay to approximately 8am, morning and evening care, generally from sunset and seeing to basic home logistics, watering plants, bringing in the trash can, bringing in any parcels /deliveries dropped at the door. The home serves as my primary base, with a maximum away-window of 4 to 5 hours during the day to attend to my own appointments. As I have young adult sons (university students with hybrid class schedules) living at home and husband who works from home office I can be away from my home for a number of days and can extend beyond a standard week. If I am booked for housesitting I generally suspend other drop in visits to other pets for the duration of the booking to exclusively focus on one household. My goal is simple: for you to come home to happy & calm pets, a tidy house, and complete peace of mind. And if your dog starts barking with an Australian accent when you get back… well, I consider that a job exceptionally well done. I’d love to meet you—and your furry family members!
Cat care experience
Karen also cares for cats. Learn about their cat-specific care experience.
Qualifications
Safety, trust & environment
In me you will find an attentive pet sitter who treats the family home and pets like my own. I care for pets in their own home with total care, respect and personalized attention. I enjoy having direct contact with indoor dogs and cats that like to stay near humans and are thought of as family members.
Ratings and reviews
Karen was awesome! She took such incredible care of our Dog, and the house looked better than we left it. It’s such a relief to find someone so reliable. We would certainly ask her to come back.
Meg & Nate L. Reviewed on 4/11/2024 Kas is a nearby neighbor who is three streets from our home. She’s started out as a childcare sitter with my two children aged 2 & 6 for early morning and half day appointments. Then we added pet sitting when our family travels interstate. She has pet sat our medium sized dog (a 3 year old large golden Labrador) multiple times now with 3-4 visits per day, including outside grass time, sunshine time, feeding, watering and cuddles. Kas keeps in contact, including photos and is trustworthy, respectful, reliable, on time and tidy in our home. Kas has gone above and beyond our expectations each time we have booked her service. 5/5 stars for sure.
Jack and Jill M (Woodforest, Tx) Reviewed on 4/11/2024 We, including my boy’s, love Kas. She has kept my dogs for a couple of years now. Kas is punctual, tidy, engaging and playful with my dogs. She always goes above and beyond anything I’ve asked of her. Kas is trustworthy and reliable and we are grateful she is apart of our village.
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Schedule
Pet care fits into my weekly routine around my own home duties. I don’t have a “regular” job. My children are grown, 19 and 22 year old university students, who continue to live with their parents, and husband works from home office. My day-to-day routine is fairly flexible at this stage of my life, not yet a grandmother and not yet an empty nester. All my extended family live in Melbourne Australia and I visit them a few weeks at a time twice each year. Pet sitting, is my new interest, something that I hope to carry through this empty nesting season.