I have had my own dogs for over 40 years. My last old darling dog has recently passed away. I grew up with cats, I had my own horse for 10 years, I also kept chickens and ducks for about 20 years. Recent house/dog cat sitting experience includes a wonderful Flatcoat Retriever who needed eye drops 3x per day, we looked after the house, the 2 dogs, the chickens and the cat here. We are currently looking after a very sweet labrador who suffers from epilepsy and needs important medications every 12 hours. Last summer I also looked after a house and 2 guinea pigs, one of whom needed wound care daily. I am a qualified dog trainer, and have lots of experience in training the sport of agility. I only use kind, reward based methods, and my pledge to the dogs I train is that I will never frighten or hurt them in the name of training. I am very fond of houseplants, and will certainly take care of those too. Also happy to water plants in the garden if needed. Oh yes, I also used to keep tropical fish, and have had koi carp too. My son used to have a corn snake and a python (?) so I am OK with those, but not an expert! Not much experience with farm animals, but did feed a little orphan lamb for a friend. Have rescued a wild bird before, and managed to rear it from naked little nestling to flying adult.