Natalya & Matt F.
Natalya & Matt F.
Highlights
Pet care experience
Two animal-lovers at your service!
Hi! We are Natalya and Matt, both originally from Boulder, Colorado. Our home base is Colorado and we are currently traveling. Matt is taking 13-week contracts as a Sterile Processing Tech at different hospitals around the US so we can explore the country. Natalya works as a fully remote Executive Assistant for a veterinary cooperative and previously worked as a secretary at a grooming salon in Denver. In our free time, we love to explore the great outdoors, go to concerts, play music, write poetry, read (especially fantasy!), and practice yoga and meditation. We are both sober and don't smoke. We are quiet and respectful and treat each place we live with respect. Natalya grew up on a small farm and has taken care of dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens, ducks, fish, parakeets, reptiles, and farm animals. She used to work as a nanny and housecleaner for about 10 years and has lots of experience caring for other people's pets, kids, and homes. She worked at a grooming salon for a year and a half and has experience with pretty much every age, breed, and temperament of both dogs and cats, including training puppies and caring for elderly pets requiring medication and other special treatment. She is excellent at soothing nervous animals in stressful situations. Matt is a traveling healthcare professional who has taken care of dogs and cats all his life as well. He is handy around the house and has learned a lot from building out our van. He cleans medical instruments for work and always keeps his living spaces sparkling.
Cat care experience
Natalya & Matt also care for cats. Learn about their cat-specific care experience.
Qualifications
Safety, trust & environment
We are always attentive to pets and put their needs first. We can structure our days around their feeding schedules and exercise needs. We are relaxed people and maintain a clean and calm environment to help keep everyone stress-free. We will ensure that your home and pets are given priority treatment while you're away and send lots of updates about how they're doing! We're always available for a call or text to check in.
Ratings and reviews
Natalya was a wonderful pet sitter and took great care of our home! Provided regular updates/photos and took time to get to know each our 3 pets!
Natalya is an animal whisperer! We have trusted her with our 120lb ridgeback for day hikes as well as while we went on vacation for weeks at a time. She is incredibly responsible and so sweet with animals. She took care of our dog for many years (as well as our kids)! Natalya is my number one person to watch our fur babies. I couldn't imagine a better human to watch and care for your pets.
Natalya is a wonderful and kind person and my animals love her. She takes great care of them and I trust her wholeheartedly, she listens to my requests and there is no one I’d rather have take care of my fur babies.
Natalya is wonderful with my big bernedoodle, Roo. Her warm and attentive energy always puts him at ease when he gets worried about us going out of town. She is very communicative, sends lots of pictures and updates, is very reliable, trustworthy, and is easy to work with. She has also taken care of our human babies and we trust her completely! She always takes great care of our home and goes above and beyond to ensure everything is in order. She does a wonderful job taking care of our garden, houseplants, and even our small reptiles as well! I was heartbroken when she moved out of our area. She set an incredibly high bar! Your pets and home would be lucky to have her!
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Schedule
Natalya works fully remote so she can be at home all day caring for pets. We are currently staying in Seattle through mid-October while Matt finishes his current contract. We are going to be splitting time between living in our sprinter van that we built from scratch and housesitting. We both love animals but can't have any of our own for the time being due to our travel plans, so we are excited to borrow other people's animals and care for them like they are our own.
- Cats0 to 15 lbs16 to 40 lbs41 to 100 lbsover 101 lbsNatalya & Matt can host up to 2 drop-ins per day
- Let us know about their favorite activities and places to explore. Tell us if they have any special needs or take any medications. Please also let us know if they have behavioral issues. We are comfortable with hyperactive pets or pets that need training and we are willing to help you train but need to know your pet's current capacity so we can work with them as they learn. Also please let us know how many updates you'd like while you're away, we're happy to keep in touch!