Our own pet sitters
Very sad and very nice experiences
As we planned to stay in Perou for a whole month, travelling from Lima to Arequipa, Cuzco, Machu Pichu and Titicaca lake, we had to find a solution for our 3 pets. Our vet's assistant could not take them for so long and we did not want to put them in pension.
We did not knowpet sitting organizations existed. We subscribed to Nomador, chose a couple in their sixties, who had lost recently their german shepherd. It was their first experience as pet
sitters, as everybody must start one day, I selected them. A very bad idea !
This firstexperience became a nightmare.
Although instructions were very clear -"call us if anything happens"- that couple sent us photos everyday, affirming "everything is OK", but they never warned us our biggest dog, Foudre, fell ill suddenly, and that they had taken him 3 times to the vet.
They pretended later on they "did not want to spoil our holidays". What a lie ! They warned us probably only because our vet told them he will send us a mail to let us kow what was happening.
When they called us, our beloved dog was dying ! Foudre passed away that very night (lymphom). We received our vet's mail just after our sitter's call.
It was too late to come back to Provence and be near him, but we were so sad we did not make any more tourism, we cancelled our expedition to Puno and Titicaca lake.
We had left a huge dog apparently in good health, we found on our way back a jar with his ashes ! For sure our sitters were not responsible for Foudre's illness, but they had not respected their parole, keeping silent instead of telling us the truth.
A few months later, we were very anxious when it was time to find new pet sitters for Nuage and Zig our cat. We wanted to go to Croatia, then later on to see friends in Toscana (Italy).
We were more lucky that time and the following ones too : all our sitters were experienced and charming.
They cuddled Nuage & Zig, then Zig & Tahoe (after Nuage's death), then Tahoe, Zia & Zoé, (new kittens adopted after Zig's loss), who looked obviously happy on the daily pictures we'd asked for and received !
So far, we've welcomed young sitters, in their thirties, from Norway, England, Ireland, Australia or Canada, older ones from France, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, New Zealand or USA.
One of our Nomador sitters, Liv, came from Norway with her partner and sat with another couple of friends. Claude & Marilyn were french. Marc and his wife from Belgium.
Members of Trusted house sitters, Stéphanie, a canadian from Québec, cared for Tahoe with her 2 years old little girl. To help us after a late minute cancellation, she managed to buy a car in order to reach our home in one day, although she was staying with friends in Britanny !
In 2024, Felicity and Steve, a couple of "Kiwis" from New Zealand stayed 10 days while we were in Italy. 
In may 2024 Janine and Jan, a retired couple from Belgium, looked after our menagerie while we were sitting in Hampshire (England).
In september 2024, Jean-Luc & Patricia, who live 2 hours drive from us stayed 9 days with our pets while we were sitting in Biot (France). They shared a week end with a couple of friends. We had lunch together a month later, in Sète. We shared a ride in their boat on Etang de Thau.
Fanny came a third time in march 2025 with Eric, her partner, and their golden retriever. Tahoe was delighted to meet again Taïa. We used to have 2 dogs in the past. It's so nice to see them play together all day. 
Another sitter, named Fanny too, came alone for a few days, Yannick, her partner, brought their cat Nala during the week end. This fantastic tortoiseshell feline behaves like a dog, is used to walk in fields with a harness, comes when called. She chose to use the cat tree without any protest from Zia & Zo&, she slept in the same room as Tahoe. I was rather anxious of our pets'reaction towards her but everything went smooth.
While we were visiting Albania,
Isabelle came in september 2025 with her father, Philippe, 90 years old. Both enjoyed making long walks around.
At Xmas 2025, Laura came with her mother, her little girl and her blind cat, brought from Perou where she was a teacher. Our own cats and our dog welcomed that poor cat very nicely.
