Cats-loving and non-smoking Belarus vegetarian family. We love your pets like our own =)

Aliaksei & Volha

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Aliaksei & Volha

Cats-loving and non-smoking Belarus vegetarian family. We love your pets like our own =)

Minsk, Belarus

8 reviews

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About Aliaksei & Volha

We are active, non-smoking family with open hearts, passion to travel and great love to all animals, but especially to cats. Living in Minsk, Belarus, we prefer vegetarian and ecological way of life. With our energy, responsibility and adaptability we will provide all we can to do the best for your family pets. We see not animals but friends and individualities inside them.
Both of us have a job that let us work distantly most of the time. Aleksei is digital illustrator working for Moscow design studio and over his own projects. Olya is wedding and portrait photographer with interest in field of pet photo as hobby. So you can get few wonderful shots of your lovely pets during our staying ( of course only if you want it ). Tsima, our 5 years old son, is kind and clever boy with interests in world around us, books, board games and LEGO constructing =) He not only loves, but respects animals. We teach him that from an early age.

Why we want to house sit

It is a pleasure for us to care about animals and become friends for them. Also we value possibility to travel more and getting local experience in different parts of the world. As a young parents of 5 years old boy we see a great opportunity to show him the world, traditions and places. We hope it helps our son to grow up into open-minded and conscious person with love for animals and understanding of variety of the world.

Our experience

We are cheerful, full of energy and trustworthy family. We respect people's homes and understand how important their pets are in their lives. Both of us have had house pets in the past. Olya had a passion to animals, especially to cats, from her childhood and had given it to me - her husband. She fed homeless animals, nursed wounded birds, looked after her friends cats and was a mom and friend for her own cats. Now we have no our own pets because we are traveling a lot and don't want to leave them alone too often.

You can be interested in reviews from our airbnb apartments hosts:

"Aleksei with his family were really nice and friendly guest. Communication before their arrival was perfect. Apartment was left in great condition." Natalia from Warsaw, Poland

"Aleksei was a perfect guest. No trouble at all. The house was left clean and tidy. Thank you very much Aleksei. A+++" Marco from Pula, Sardegna

"I was very satisfeid to be Aleksei's host. They was very quit and firm guests. Thank you for be my guest with your family. Lady maid send you regards. Me also, I send to you and your group many regards. You are welcome if come back." Vladan from Petrovac, Montenegro

"I'm glad that you liked your stay in our place ( and the deco :) ) and the city of Gent! I hope the rest of your trip was as good ! Thanks for your stay again. Best" Lucille from Ghent, Belgium

Reviews (8)

Yoko - Munich, Germany

21 December - 06 January 2019

Thank you for the great care for our cats!
Aliaksei is very responsive to messages, so it was very comfortable from when we agreed until the sitting. The boy Tim is gentle and quiet. I was a bit worried about having a young kid for our cats (my nephew messes them around so..), but the worry went... + More

Thank you for the great care for our cats!
Aliaksei is very responsive to messages, so it was very comfortable from when we agreed until the sitting. The boy Tim is gentle and quiet. I was a bit worried about having a young kid for our cats (my nephew messes them around so..), but the worry went away once I met them. The pictures they took were AWESOME. I never had that beautiful pictures for our cats. Also they left a welcome back message with fruits. It was very nice, as we just arrived in the evening without much energy to go grocery shopping. Totally recommendable family!

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Charlotte - Grenoble, France

09 August - 19 August 2018

Aliaksei, Olya and Tima are wonderful housesitters who cared for my three cats , my plants and my flat while I went away for a week to visit family. My cats absolutely adored them, even the shy one, who is particularly nervous around children, I came home to find her happily playing with young Ti... + More

Aliaksei, Olya and Tima are wonderful housesitters who cared for my three cats , my plants and my flat while I went away for a week to visit family. My cats absolutely adored them, even the shy one, who is particularly nervous around children, I came home to find her happily playing with young Tima!
Arranging the housesit was very straightforward and Aliaksei kept me updated about their travel plans to arrive. I received regular email updates while I was away as well as the most beautiful photographs of the cats. Everything was tidy upon my return, the cats were completely content and at ease with their guests and it was lovely to chat with Aliaksei and Olya. I should also mention that one cat required medication which they handled perfectly.
I have no hesitation in recommending this lovely family!

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Susanne - Vienna, Austria

22 December - 02 January 2018

Aliaksei and his family stayed in our apartment over Christmas into the New Year. Setting up was a total breeze, everything went super smooth, and we were very relieved to be able to leave apartment and cats in good health and know that everything would be taken care of beautifully.

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Aliaksei and his family stayed in our apartment over Christmas into the New Year. Setting up was a total breeze, everything went super smooth, and we were very relieved to be able to leave apartment and cats in good health and know that everything would be taken care of beautifully.

Long things short, all three did an outstanding job of caring for the three divas, although the super-diva is still a bit untidy at times (which they never remarked about, surprisingly). The cats loved them and all three slept on the bed, a thing which we have not achieved yet ;-)

On top of that the apartment was in even better order when we returned than when we left. Our only complaint is that the bottle of champagne that we hid in the fridge was not consumed, so we'll have to do that job ourselves.

Highly recommended, super-organized, friendly, self-sufficient little family. Please visit us again!

Oh, and we have great photos of our cats now, we hope we can use them here. Thank you!

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