Peggy's Housesitting and Petsitting

05/18/2023

It is just about summer but we are already filling up! If you have a vacation planned and we haven't spoken, reach out now!

This is Banjo... right before he decided my face needed to be washed. This is such a wonderful, smart dog.

04/02/2023

12/29/2022

May your days beavery merry and bright ✨

12/19/2022

It has been a busy December! We started out on the coast with birds that we adore and returned home to Eugene and have had/having 2 more sits! We wind down just in time for Christmas with the family. Your animal family feels like part of ours after a sit. We love visiting! Here's some of our recent visits.

Check in with us if you have upcoming trips in February on. We love to love your furry and feathered families.

11/14/2022

Science has shown that looking at photos of cute animals can reduce stress and anxiety.

10/31/2022

Have plans taking a trip to the coast with your pups? Make sure you read this first!

09/27/2022

I've gone to the birds again. Hanging with Esme, here, and about 18 other birdies.

08/22/2022

The last 3 weeks I have spent with these 3. It has been a good 3 weeks.

06/30/2022

It didn't take long to fill up August with a break for my birthday! If you are unable to book with us now, I hope that you will keep us in mind in the future. We love to love your furry, feathered, scaled, etc family members.
Do you know what the hardest thing with pet sitting is? It is losing those pets that we have gotten the chance to love. I seem to do a lot of mourning for those wonderful pets that some of you have lost since I last had a chance to love them.
We might seem like a temporary blip in their lives, but while we are there we sleep with them, pet them, play with them and just totally fall in love with them. There are times, especially with dogs, that when the real parents get home, if we are all there at the same time, they look at both of us with anticipation and are confused that they don't get to have all of us with them, because we shared love with them - the kind of love that you give them so they are happy when you are gone.
I just realized that I talk about this a lot - the loss of the ones that we have loved. In this business it seems like we go from full heart to broken heart, but I can't think of a better way to live. We get a lot of love in return.

RIP Congo - he was a sassy little dragon man that loved to sing and tell you that you were a pretty girl and he wanted to "put a bird on it." He was a bird that I wasn't able to physically handle, but I loved him for over 10 years on repeated pet sits.

06/27/2022

We are booked most of July and most of September/ October. Got a trip in August? Now is the time to book!

(image of a kid that we sat on a small farm sit in Ireland in 2019

05/09/2022

My summer schedule is wide open at the moment. This could change at any time, if you have summer plans, hit me up. I have experiences with small farms, poultry, goats, chinchillas, snakes, even!

01/14/2022

So happy to see an old kitty friends and new kitty friend last weekend. Next month is going to the birds! These are some of my favorite reoccurring sits. I really love and really fall in love with the animal family members I sit. It is a joy to get a call back!

10/08/2021

We have began pet sitting again! We are on the coast of Oregon for 10 days sitting a gorgeous place that is filled with wild birds and parrots, love birds, and chickens. I love this place. It is the 4th or 5th time that we have been here. You may have seen the videos and photos of my favorite bird, Koji, a parrot. But I've made another good friend this time, his name is Zaki and he is a love bird. I made a drawing of him today and shared it with his owners.

07/24/2021

Due to the increase of the Delta variant, I'm not going to pet sit or pet walk until my 11 year old turns 12 and is fully vaccinated, which will be mid-October. I'm sorry if this causes you any trouble, but I do hope that you will contact me again in the future.

05/27/2021

05/21/2021

We are booking pet sits again starting this July. Got big plans and pets that you love? We are there for you.

04/02/2021

Not my cat but a cat that I cared for on numerous occasions. She was such a sweet girl. The hardest thing about covid, for me, is not being able to see the animals that I have cared for in the past. She passed about 3 years ago from cancer, but the last year has seen the deaths of 4 animals that I loved and loved caring for while their families were out of town. It is so sad to have not have seen them one more time.
My worst situation as a pet sitter was caring for a terminally ill kitten, that I didn't know was terminally ill. He was wasting away more each time I saw him and I didn't see anything being done to ease his pain. The last time I sat him, he couldn't move, couldn't eat, couldn't drink, couldn't get to a cat box, of course. I took him to the vet when I couldn't reach the family, willing to pay for it on my dime, just to see if there was a way to help him. The vet said that he was actively in the process of dying and his body was shutting down. He said that he should be put out of his misery. I finally reached the family and told them what they said and had them speak to the vet. They cried and said, ok put him down. They were angry that I took him to the vet. I asked them, how could they leave him for me in that shape?! I feel great guilt that I took the opportunity from the family to be with him when he passed, but I also couldn't let him suffer in the way he was. We were friends, but she couldn't stay friends with me - I blame her and I don't blame her. Just as I feel about myself.
The understanding that I have with families that I pet sit for is, if their pet is sick, I take them to the vet and contact them. The pictured cat, "Spot", acted strange the first time I sat her and I took her to the vet. There was something wrong, but they couldn't put the name to it that time. I was cancer that took her down and was showing its ugly head.
If you ever ask me to sit for you, please know that I will care for your pet as if it is my own. When in Dublin, we sat for a family who went to Spain for a couple of weeks. When I met one of the cats I asked the owner if they had any kidney issues? She said no and said she would check it out when she returned, but get to the vet if necessary. The cat seemed well enough, but when she returned she took him to the vet and he was struggling with kidney issues and she thanked me so much.
I hope as covid winds down you'll consider me to care for your furry/feathered/scaled, etc family as I would my own.
If your pet is terminally ill and unable to function, please stay home with them, it isn't fair to leave them to someone else - I was scarred by this, as was my young daughter.