Rebecca
About Rebecca
I'm very grateful to be able to indulge my passion for travel. I feel like I'm putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle. I don't know what the finished picture will look like, but everywhere I travel, I find a new piece of the puzzle. Sometimes I don't know where it fits, but other times the piece I find fits perfectly with other pieces I have ...
I'm very grateful to be able to indulge my passion for travel. I feel like I'm putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle. I don't know what the finished picture will look like, but everywhere I travel, I find a new piece of the puzzle. Sometimes I don't know where it fits, but other times the piece I find fits perfectly with other pieces I have previously collected and it all makes sense. I can't wait to find the next piece! In addition to travel , I enjoy reading, walking/hiking, and scuba diving.
I started a business in Grand Cayman and ran it for 20 years. Now I work for fun by volunteering and house/pet sitting. I like it much better that way. I travel too much to have a pet of my own, so I enjoy wild animals I encounter in the parks where I volunteer and on my travels, as well as pets that belong to family, friends, and people I sit for. They are all wonderful!
Why I want to house sit
I love to travel and be able to spend the time to really get to know the places I visit, and house sitting gives me the opportunity to do that without spending a fortune on hotels and eating out. I find I get a better feel for a place by staying longer and getting to know people who live there. I also enjoy helping others by giving them the peace of mind to enjoy their travels without having to worry about their home and pets and by making the pets more comfortable in their owner's absence. I love animals but don't have any of my own, so I really enjoy getting to spend time in their company.
My experience
I have been around animals since my birth on a farm in Virginia. We moved from there when I was 5, but we had a cat throughout my early years, and over the years we had dogs, cats, goats, ducks and lambs, too. I took horseback riding lessons until my parents bought me a pony. Rex was my best friend, and when we moved to Tennessee he went with us. We found a stable with a group of young people who were active in horse shows, so we spent every week getting ready for a show and every weekend throughout the spring, summer and early fall at a show somewhere in East Tennessee or Southwest Virginia. It was heaven! After I married, my husband and I bought a small farm and raised Quarter horses for awhile.
My parents traveled a lot when I was in high school, so I learned to housesit early on. They taught me to take care of things - especially if they belonged to someone else - and to treat other people and their possessions the way I want myself and my possessions to be treated. Most of my house sitting prior to joining Trusted House Sitters has been for friends and family, but I also worked in property management for a number of years in Florida. I've taken care of 2 cats and a dog at a lake house in Georgia and an aquarium of tropical fish, a cat (Bogey), a pair of cats (Tigger and Pooh), and Sulphur Crested and Umbrella Cockatoos (Richard and Cleo) in various homes in Grand Cayman. In addition, I volunteered for two weeks at a cheetah conservation project in South Africa and helped care for 4 cheetahs, 2 caracals, 2 servals, a half dozen or so hyenas, an African wildcat, and a porcupine. I loved them all and can't wait to meet my next animal friend!
External references (2)
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Tina - House / Pet sitting Reference
14 January 2019
Rebecca Redford is an absolutely FANTASTIC House/Pet sitter! She moved into my home and tended to my 3 pet's needs for an entire month during the hottest part of the summer in GA. Responsibilities included daily meds for my elderly dog, 2 meals/day for the dog and 2 cats, dog walks, poop scoopi...
Rebecca Redford is an absolutely FANTASTIC House/Pet sitter! She moved into my home and tended to my 3 pet's needs for an entire month during the hottest part of the summer in GA. Responsibilities included daily meds for my elderly dog, 2 meals/day for the dog and 2 cats, dog walks, poop scooping for the cats, normal home maintenance on a 2,000 sq ft home, mowing almost 1 acre or grass weekly, mail retrieval, garden watering and keeping an eye on my boat dock to be moved in and out as needed; which was no easy task. When I returned home, I found my animals fat and happy, house was well maintained, yard and garden thriving, and so much more. Rebecca even went above and beyond by noticing my hand vac needed a new filter, which she replaced. Can't say enough great things about Rebecca Redford!!!
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Susan - House / Pet sitting Reference
14 January 2019
Rebecca is a honest and trustworthy person who is comfortable in most any locale. She has traveled the world on her own, and is capable of handling any situation. That being said, she would be an asset to any homeowner who wants a caring, organized, and capable person to leave in charge of the...
Rebecca is a honest and trustworthy person who is comfortable in most any locale. She has traveled the world on her own, and is capable of handling any situation. That being said, she would be an asset to any homeowner who wants a caring, organized, and capable person to leave in charge of their home or pets.
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- Reliable
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- Self-sufficient
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- Pet care
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About Rebecca
I'm very grateful to be able to indulge my passion for travel. I feel like I'm putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle. I don't know what the finished picture will look like, but everywhere I travel, I find a new piece of the puzzle. Sometimes I don't know where it fits, but other times the piece I find fits perfectly with other pieces I have previously collected and it all makes sense. I can't wait to find the next piece! In addition to travel , I enjoy reading, walking/hiking, and scuba diving.
I started a business in Grand Cayman and ran it for 20 years. Now I work for fun by volunteering and house/pet sitting. I like it much better that way. I travel too much to have a pet of my own, so I enjoy wild animals I encounter in the parks where I volunteer and on my travels, as well as pets that belong to family, friends, and people I sit for. They are all wonderful!
I'm very grateful to be able to indulge my passion for travel. I feel like I'm putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle. I don't know what the finished picture will look like, but everywhere I travel, I find a new piece of the puzzle. Sometimes I don't know where it fits, but other times the piece I find fits perfectly with other pieces I have previously collected and it all makes sense. I can't wait to find the next piece! In addition to travel , I enjoy reading, walking/hiking, and scuba diving.
I started a business in Grand Cayman and ran it for 20 years. Now I work for fun by volunteering and house/pet sitting. I like it much better that way. I travel too much to have a pet of my own, so I enjoy wild animals I encounter in the parks where I volunteer and on my travels, as well as pets that belong to family, friends, and people I sit for. They are all wonderful!
Why I want to house sit
I love to travel and be able to spend the time to really get to know the places I visit, and house sitting gives me the opportunity to do that without spending a fortune on hotels and eating out. I find I get a better feel for a place by staying longer and getting to know people who live there. I also enjoy helping others by giving them the peace of mind to enjoy their travels without having to worry about their home and pets and by making the pets more comfortable in their owner's absence. I love animals but don't have any of my own, so I really enjoy getting to spend time in their company.
My experience
I have been around animals since my birth on a farm in Virginia. We moved from there when I was 5, but we had a cat throughout my early years, and over the years we had dogs, cats, goats, ducks and lambs, too. I took horseback riding lessons until my parents bought me a pony. Rex was my best friend, and when we moved to Tennessee he went with us. We found a stable with a group of young people who were active in horse shows, so we spent every week getting ready for a show and every weekend throughout the spring, summer and early fall at a show somewhere in East Tennessee or Southwest Virginia. It was heaven! After I married, my husband and I bought a small farm and raised Quarter horses for awhile.
My parents traveled a lot when I was in high school, so I learned to housesit early on. They taught me to take care of things - especially if they belonged to someone else - and to treat other people and their possessions the way I want myself and my possessions to be treated. Most of my house sitting prior to joining Trusted House Sitters has been for friends and family, but I also worked in property management for a number of years in Florida. I've taken care of 2 cats and a dog at a lake house in Georgia and an aquarium of tropical fish, a cat (Bogey), a pair of cats (Tigger and Pooh), and Sulphur Crested and Umbrella Cockatoos (Richard and Cleo) in various homes in Grand Cayman. In addition, I volunteered for two weeks at a cheetah conservation project in South Africa and helped care for 4 cheetahs, 2 caracals, 2 servals, a half dozen or so hyenas, an African wildcat, and a porcupine. I loved them all and can't wait to meet my next animal friend!
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