We booked Lori to watch our pets/house sit for part of a vacation that we had booked. We had another sitter booked who needed to cancel close to, so we were in a bit of a time crunch. We appreciated Lori’s quick response and willingness to meet up for a meet and greet last minute. Lori is very kind and seemed to really enjoy our pets which was nice. We left detailed instructions in our care instructions as well as written instructions at home with relevant info about each of our pets and house, and she did not have any questions about anything. The stay went well and we came home to healthy pets and a very clean home. However, we did find that Lori wasn’t super communicative during our time away. We did not hear anything from Lori other than her letting us know she had arrived, and the only other communication was received after we had prompted her. The update was brief, just indicating the animals were all okay, and only included photos of 2/3 pets. We did also notice from our ring camera that she also did not take our dog on the requested daily walks, which is disappointing as she is a high energy golden retriever and needs quite a lot of exercise. I had let Lori know about the daily walks during the meet and greet and she did say she could do that, but did not follow through or let us know she was unable to take her for her walks. However, Lori did say that she had spent the day outside in our yard with her which is nice. Despite that, we were still disappointed with the lack of communication, including not letting us know her planned departure time which ended up leaving our pup home for a bit longer than we had wanted. We had requested a departure time between 5-7pm on the booking to plan around our return time as our flight was in later that evening, and she ended up leaving by 4:30pm so our pets were fed dinner and given her medication much earlier than their usual time and left longer than we had liked. We didn’t know that she was leaving at this time because this was not communicated ahead of time. Overall, we are content with how our pets and house were taken care of during her time here and are happy our home and pets were well taken care of overall.

We loved Lori. Very responsible adult. Stayed with our senior dog for almost a month. No problems at all. We will definitely book Lori again and highly recommend her services.