Vale Pet Sitters Limited

26/10/2024

Classic FM will be hosting its Pet Classics shows again this year to soothe any pets worried by the sound of fireworks. There will be one on Saturday 2nd and another on Tuesday 5th November. Both run from 5pm - 9pm online. Classic FM is available online, on DAB and on 100-102 FM

Dan Walker and Charlotte Hawkins will host two programmes filled with soothing classical music and practical advice from the RSPCA, to calm pets during fireworks season.

05/10/2024

It’s that time of year again so for the next few weeks we’ll be playing this in the background, quietly at first but increasing the volume in the run up to Bonfire Night and New Year’s Eve. Tilly’s asleep and not in the slightest bit interested and Bob wandered in to find out what was on tv, then wandered off again. Playing it in the background of normal life means that the dogs will be even more chilled if fireworks go off suddenly over the coming weeks. We also mix it up with various versions from YouTube to get all sorts of different sounds. This is the first one we’ve done today.

Firework noise desensitization for dogs and puppies. You can help get your dog used to firework noises by slowly exposing them to low-level noises. Play this...

02/08/2024

The wonderful Andrew Cotter does it again to celebrate the Olympics with Olive and Mabel…

29/06/2024

Another fun day at the Longhouse. A short lie in, followed by a trip to Pets At Home to meet people and other dogs, a walk in the Forestry and a buffalo bone with Bob.

13/05/2024

It’s been a hard first day, working to entertain our daycare dogs and the newest recruit to the VPS family is taking a well-deserved nap! Meet Tilly. Her name is short for Matilda/Mathilde, Holy Roman Empress & very nearly queen of England, who was responsible for the Anarchy 1138-1153; that somehow seems appropriate given the chaos she’s causing so far! Looking at her, butter wouldn’t melt 😍

10/03/2024

Happy Mothering Sunday to all mums, whether of humans or any other sort of animal!

21/02/2024

We’re back online!

16/02/2024

We've currently got no internet at home, which also means no phone (either landline or mobile). Therefore if you don't receive a response to an email or message, it's because we are entirely cut off from the outside world until it's fixed! I’ll be popping out to get messages fairly regularly but please do be patient.

01/11/2023

It’s with a heavy heart that we have to report that the Vale Pet Sitters family lost a founder member this evening. After a short illness, Henry crossed the rainbow bridge today. As you can appreciate, it’s a difficult time for us and especially for Bob, who’s lost without his best friend. We’re still open and operating as usual but please bear with us if we don’t respond to enquiries straight away. As you’ll appreciate, it’s going to take a while to get used to the new normal, without our biggest boy. He was a good boy.

30/09/2023

‼️‼️OWNER FOUND‼️‼️ Thank you again , you wonderful lot ❤️

We need your help again. This beautiful older lady was found in the cowbridge area and brought to us.
She is microchipped but the phone number is not up to date.
The very kind couple who brought her in are going to knock door to door to try and find her home.

If you know who she belongs to or she is yours please contact us. Proof of ownership will be required.

We are here until 5pm after that you can always message us via Facebook.

Thank you in advance!

01/04/2023

Apologies to those whose messages we haven’t been able to respond to over the past few weeks. Unfortunately, we have been dealing with family illness which has impacted our response times. We’ll get to you as soon as we can. If your enquiry is urgent, please call or email. Thanks for your patience.

12/03/2023

As spring approaches, the Vale will welcome thousands of lambs to its fields 🐑

Help protect them by keeping your dog on a lead when around livestock 🐾🐶

29/01/2023

Please can you share........
Missing from Usk!!!
Hello, my name is Anastasia, and this is my cat Tishka. We are from Ukraine. Tishka went missing on December 7. We tried to find him, but we didn’t succeed. A few days ago I received information that my cat was found in Cardiff, near Plas Mawr School. But after studying the information in more detail, I realized that it was January 2 and now I have no idea where he can be. He has a chip, but it is registered to a Ukrainian address. I would like to ask you to place an ad on your page, if possible. Pm us please if you have any information and we can pass this on. Thank you X

31/12/2022

I’m delighted to say that we’re finally back online. My strategy of staying in bed this morning, after getting up to be ready for the past two days’ 8am appointments, when the engineer didn’t show, has paid off! He arrived at 8.15am and I had to answer the door in my PJs! Despite that shock, and the fact that he was scared of dogs, he fixed the fault and we now have both broadband and landline. Hallelujah!

30/12/2022

We still have no broadband or phone. which has been the case since the early hours of Christmas Day. We have no mobile signal at home but are nipping out every few hours to try to collect messages. Apologies if you’re trying to reach us; blame BT, who have now missed two engineer appointments over the past couple of days. We hope to be back online tomorrow but that’s been the case for a few days now. Please bear with us if you’re waiting for a response and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.

12/12/2022

🙏 BLANKETS AND TOWELS NEEDED 🙏

Can you help by donating your old blankets and towels to us? We're going through them at a rapid pace again right now so any help would be really appreciated. We're currently down to our last ones for the dogs so this is quite an urgent ask for us.

Our rescue centre based in Llanharan is open until 5pm every day and there is a big red donation bin just outside reception.

Thank you very much 🐾

13/11/2022

Thinking today of all the animal victims of war and particularly of Simon, the only cat to be awarded the Dickin Medal.

His name was Simon

12/10/2022

I’m not sure we’d need more than “eat” for Henry but it really would be interesting to know what they’re thinking!

"I just imagine how much deeper the bond will be."