ServicesHouse & Pet Sitting
House & Pet Sitting
Following my "connection through presence" method, I give attention to the animals I’m caring for.
Two 15-minute walks a day are included. Anything beyond that is priced separately, and the source does not say whether the 30-minute walk replaces those two or is added on top.
Prices
$100–120 / day
MinimumNot stated
Open, always: this table is never behind a click, at any screen width.
- 1 pet
- $120 / day
- Each additional pet
- + $20 / day
- No pets
- $100 / day
- This line sits under a heading the legacy site called "Petsitting Rates", and the Services index called the whole service "Pet Sitting" — which made $100/day house sitting invisible on two routes.
- 30 min walk
- $33
- 30 min run
- $45
- Entertain and make company (1 pet)
- $40 / hour
- Source, verbatim: “40 dollars per hour for the care of 1 pet”
- Drop in to feed pets or water plants
- $30
- Source, verbatim: “Drop in to feed pets or water plants: 30 dollars.”
- Take away to hike — 5 hours
- $200
- Take away to the beach — 5 hours
- $200
- Source, verbatim: “*Price for single pet (additional 50$ per pet). need your pet out of the house for longer? please contact me for additional information.”
- Single pet. Each additional pet adds $50.
- Weekends
- + $3 / hour over normal fee
- Rule not closed: this service is billed per day, so an hourly surcharge cannot be applied to it as written. It reads as copy-paste from the hourly services — a Saturday cannot be quoted from this page.
- Holidays
- 1.5× normal fee
- Cash only.
- Notation is unified in US$ here; the source mixes "$120", "40 dollars", "30 dollars" and "50$" in the same list.
Rules not closed in the source
- The weekend surcharge is stated per hour on a service billed per day. Not calculable as written.
- Whether the paid 30-minute walk replaces or is added to the two 15-minute walks included is not stated.
- Weekend and holiday stacking is not stated.
- Service area: Menlo Park–Hillsborough or Redwood City / Woodside — 94062 — the source declares two different areas. Both declarations, side by side.
- Travel beyond that area is not priced anywhere in the source, and neither is any mileage or parking cost.
What is included
Reproduced from the source, including the boundaries — the items that end in “please contact me” are the ones the source refuses to price, and they stay in the same list instead of being tidied away.
- Attentive and present pet care.
- 2x 15min walks a day (for additional walking, please contact me)
- Safety-first approach.
- Outdoor and indoor playtime.
- Engaging activities.
- Fun and light atmosphere.
- General tidy-up after care.
- Pet meal preparation (if necessary).
- Plant watering.
*References available upon request. No reference is published on the site, and none can be checked from it.
I truly enjoy playing with them, going out for walks, taking them to the beach or to the park, and giving lots of cuddles! I know how much quality time is important to them, so I make it important to myself as well.
Reproduced verbatim from the House & Pet Sitting page of the source.
Credentials for this service
Nothing on this site carries a seal, a badge or a shield. Each line below is either a sentence found in the source or the literal words “not stated”.
- Pet care credential
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The page opens with "I've been a certified animal lover" — a figure of speech, not a credential. It is not repeated in this register, and the declared experience is informal: the family dog, a roommate’s cat, 3 months of dog walking.
- CPR
Not stated on this page
Not stated
The source disagrees between pages: "Twice CPR certified" on Childcare, "CPR certified" on Companionship. Neither page names an issuing body or an expiry date.
- Background check
Not stated
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- Insurance
Not stated
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- Bonding
Not stated
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- First aid
Not stated
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- License
Not stated
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Self-declared on the source page. No third party attests to any of it, and no figure below can be checked from this site.
- 12 years of taking care of my family's dog;
- Cared for my host family's dog as an au pair;
- Cared for my roommate's cat.
- Assisted multiple families when out of town with feeding, walking, and cleaning up after their pets (cats and dogs).
- 3 months of dog walking.
- comfortable with taking to the vet, running, hiking, bathing, brushing teeth, sleeping with pets, and more!
8 photographs published on the House & Pet Sitting page of the legacy site, in the order that page used. 1 of them is a stock image and is marked as such — it is not a record of this work. None of them carries a date, a place or a photographer credit in the source; each caption describes only what is visible in the frame.
Stock photograph, not Aurora’s work. It opened the House & Pet Sitting page of the legacy site. No photographer, date, place or licence is recorded anywhere in the source.
A dog on a leash at a beach, photographed by the person holding the leash. The source states no date, no place and no name for the animal.
Aurora with a ginger cat. The source states no date, no place and no name for the animal.
The same ginger cat, a second frame. The source states no date and no place.
Two dogs on a walk, photographed by the person walking them. The source states no date and no place.
Two dogs beside a client’s gate. The source states no date and no place — but the frame itself shows a street number, a vehicle registration plate and a locatable view. See README.md.
This frame carries a street number and a vehicle plate, on the page that advertises house sitting. Published by decision of the site owner; recommended for removal.
Aurora with a dog in the evening. The source states no date, no place and no name for the animal.
A dog being petted on a lawn. The source does not name the people in the frame, and does not state a date or a place.
Reviews naming House & Pet Sitting
Transcribed from the screenshot tiles on the legacy Reviews page. Where a service has none, the absence is printed instead of hidden.
No review for House & Pet Sitting yet.
All seven reviews, their provenance and the coverage per service
The form opens with House & Pet Sitting already selected, and hands the message to your own e-mail app. A request is not a booking: a time is only held once Aurora confirms it. The source states no opening hours and no response time.