Prices
The price, before the first visit.
Six kinds of visit, each with one price, and up to three pets from the same home on it. The extras are short and published. Put your dates in the planner and it tells you what the trip costs.
Visits
One price per visit.
VAT included. Feeding, cleaning, company, the post and the plants, and the photo and note are all in. Up to 3 pets from the same home on one price; a fourth is £3.
Cat visit
30 min£14 a visit
Fed, tray scooped, company, the house checked. Two in a day £26.
Dog visit
30 min£16 a visit
A walk round the block, a feed, water, the garden checked.
Dog visit, the hour
60 min£24 a visit
A proper walk: the seafront, the Dingle, Cosmeston by van.
Small animals
30 min£12 a visit
Rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, fish, reptiles, birds. A menagerie £16.
Overnight stay
7pm – 8am£55 a night
A sitter sleeps in, evening and morning routines included.
Empty-house check
20 min£10 a visit
Post, plants, bins, lights and a walk through every room.
Visit planner
What will my trip cost?
The day you leave to the day you are back, the kind of visit, how many a day. Overnights are counted by the night.
Extras and small print
Everything that can change the price.
This is the whole list. Nothing is added for a nervous cat, a special diet, a muddy dog or a house with a lot of plants.
- Up to three pets from the same homeFree
- Fourth and further pets, per visit£3
- Injection (insulin and others), per visit£4
- Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day and bank holidays, per visit+£8
- Booked with less than 48 hours' notice+£5
- Chickens, morning and evening pair of visits£20
- Key holding, coded and insuredFree
- First visit and registration, up to 45 minutesFree
- Cancellation with 48 hours' noticeFree
- Cancellation inside 48 hourshalf price
- A tradesman let in and waited for, per hour£24
- Vet run in an emergencythe visit price, plus the vet
Paying
One invoice per trip, every visit on it, sent the day you are home.
Each visit is listed with its date, time and sitter, so the invoice matches the notes on your phone. Pay by bank transfer or card link within seven days. Standing weekly bookings are invoiced on Fridays. Cancel with forty-eight hours' notice at no charge; inside that, half the visit price, because the slot was held for you. Keys come back within two days of the booking ending unless you ask us to keep them.
- Cancel free with 48 hours' notice
- A vet run in an emergency is the visit price plus the vet's bill, settled when you are home
- Christmas and New Year book by November
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.