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Carol & Doug

Active, young retired couple looking to provide loving home and pet care

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Our experience

10+ years

We joined TH early in 2022 and have so far done 8 sits. Two of our sits have been longer term international ones (2 - 4 weeks). Our most recent sit was over the Christmas/New Years holiday period, a couple of Great Dane crosses in

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  • Taly

    mix-breed

    Cared for

  • Gryff

    mix-breed

    Cared for

  • Stevie

    mix-breed

    Cared for

  • Joe

    mix-breed

    Owned in past

  • Arwin & Sukha

    mix-breed

    Cared for

  • Tarragon

    siberian husky

    Owned in past

  • Lolly & Walter

    mix-breed

    Cared for

  • Storm

    siberian husky

    Cared for

  • Pola

    samoyed

    Cared for

  • Salem

    rescue cat

    Cared for

Reviews (8)

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Melanie and Spencer

We have had lots of housesitters and Carol and Doug left our house cleaner than any before them! They were great at communicating and wanted to walk the dogs

  • dog
Bellingham, WA, US · 22 Dec 2023 - 01 Jan 2024
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Deb

Carol & Doug were amazing sitters. They arrived on time, even though they had been delayed in France due to cancellations literally less than 8 hours before

  • dog
Monmouth, United Kingdom · 11 Nov - 26 Nov 2023
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Becky

Carol and Doug were a pleasure to have as guests in our home and did a great job caring for our crew! They took our dog on many fun adventures around the

  • dog
  • cat
  • reptile
  • small-pets
Bainbridge Island, WA, US · 20 Feb - 01 Mar 2023
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Siobhan

It's taken me a while to leave this review as I was hoping the perfect words to describe my experience would come to me. Truthfully I'm not sure if the words

  • dog
  • cat
Dublin, Ireland · 10 Dec - 30 Dec 2022
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Amy

Carol and Doug were amazing house sitters. If I could give them more than 5 stars I would! My travel plans were delayed by hours on my return and they gladly

  • dog
Courtenay, BC, Canada · 26 Jun - 01 Jul 2022

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Deb

Carol has provided care for my dog Winston and my home on several occasions for extended periods of time. We were extremely happy with the care and attention she gave to our dog and home. Carol is energetic, loves animals and completely trustworthy.

Character reference

06 February 2022

About Carol & Doug

We are a young retired couple living on our acreage in Errington, on Vancouver Island. We moved here from Alberta in 2013 to help support Doug's folks, who have since moved into long term care. We have owned our own houses for more than 35

Carol

Age61OccupationRetired computer data analystLives inParksville, Canada
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Doug

Age65+OccupationRetired professional forester

Why we want to house sit

We like to travel in a way that lets us get to meet the locals and to really experience the place in an authentic way. We prefer not to stay in hotels and have always enjoyed staying in B&B's, where we can get to make some new friends and

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