ArrivalThe key safe and the card
Carys
Keys live in your safe or ours, labelled with a number. The card on the step is the note we leave on the table at the end: what was eaten, what the tray held, how they seemed.
A visit
A visit, step by step.
You hand over a key and go away. This is what happens next, in the order it happens, with the person who usually does each bit. Every step ends in the note on the kitchen table and the photo on your phone.
The six steps
Arrival
FeedingFed at their times
Carys
Wet and dry as you leave it, measured as you measure it. The chart on the fridge is yours; we photograph it at the first visit so nothing is remembered wrongly.
Dog visitsThe walk
Mark
Round the block on a thirty-minute visit, the seafront or the Dingle on the hour. Alone or with the housemate, never in a group.
Small animalsHay, greens and a look at each one
Elin
Elin keeps guinea pigs herself and checks the things that matter: eating, droppings, eyes, teeth, and in summer the flystrike check on every rabbit.
MedicationThe dose, recorded
Carys
Tablets hidden or given by hand, insulin at the time you give it, every dose on the note with the time. We do a dose with you at the first visit.
House checksThe house, lived in
Mark
Post on the table, bins out on the day, plants watered, a different lamp on each night. Included; we do not charge for being sensible.
The note
Eaten, drunk, tray, mood, anything odd. Sent before we lock the door.
The photo is the proof the visit happened and the note is the proof we paid attention: what was eaten and how much, what the tray or the hutch held, where the cat was and how it seemed, whether the dog went, what the post was. A card with the same note stays on the kitchen table so there is a record in the house as well as on your phone. If something is wrong you get a call, not a note.
- A photo and a note after every visit, by WhatsApp or text
- A card on the table for the whole booking
- A call, not a message, if anything is wrong
Book a free first visit.
Up to forty-five minutes at your house: we meet the animals, go through the feeding, the medication and the house, photograph the charts and take a key. Message or ring, or use the form, and Carys replies within the day.