About Melissa & Rick
How did we get started as pet and house sitters?
As global pet and house sitters, we travel the world looking after your pets and homes when you go on your adventures. This type of travel provides us with opportunities to meet some pretty cool people and their pets and to experience cities, regions, countries, and cultures in a deeper way than traditional holiday travel.
Our first sitters were a dream: they were classic cat lovers, great communicators, and they left our home in better condition than we left it for them. They shared their pet sitting stories with us, and it didn’t take long to realize that we could also become pet and house sitters.
Just as our first sitters assured us that our cats and home would be well cared for while we were away, we want you to feel secure and confident that your pets and home will be looked after as if they are our pets and home.
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Rick is an engineer by training, and he loves to fix things and make them better (ideally faster, if that’s possible). Rick was born in Alaska grew up overseas in Germany, Pakistan, Ghana, and Greece. He can communicate in German, French, Greek, and Spanish, and isn’t shy about talking to anyone about anything. He has extensive experience with horses, sheep, exotic birds, large snakes, dogs, and cats.
So far, on our journey, we’ve had the privilege of looking after cats, dogs, goats, geese, chickens, snakes, fish, and donkeys. We are happy to say that all pets and homeowners have asked us to return for repeat sits at every single sit we’ve completed. Happy pets and happy humans are our goals.
The pet and house sitting lifestyle has introduced us to some lifelong friends, both human and animals. Maybe we can be your pet’s next new friend?