Rural home on the Surrey/Sussex border
Introduction
Hi - We have been married for 32 years with two grown up children. My husband is a former Director of an Advertising agency and I retired last year as Chief Executive of a large animal charity. We have always had pets in our lives as children and adults. We love to travel but enjoy staying in a home environment and caring for an assortment of pets. Our own dogs, cats and chickens prefer to stay at home and be looked after by fellow animal lovers!
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Our home is half way between Guildford and Horsham (9 miles either way) and probably requires a car. There is a local shop to get basics and Cranleigh is just 3 miles away with M&S, Sainsburys , a weekly market and fantastic butcher and fishmonger. There are some lovely off-road walks and pubs direct from the house. Plenty to see in the area and good cinema and theatre in Guildford and Horsham . We are 3 miles from Cranleigh and only 45 minutes from Gatwick airport or the beach at West Wittering. There are 4 bedrooms but one is used as a study, two bathrooms and a downstairs cloakroom. Spacious well equipped kitchen leading with double doors to the garden, seperate utility room with washing machine & dryer, dining room for 8 and lovely sitting room with open fire and widescreen TV. Downstairs has underfloor heating. There is a seperate annexe in a courtyard environment - mainly used by the cats!
Show more...Responsibilities
Two flat coated retrievers aged 5 years and 18 months requiring feeding, playing and either one big ( hour / hour and half) walk or two shorter (45 mins). Wooster ( son of Lulu) is a good boy but never leave a shoe out - he loves a good chew!) We have 2 acres enclosed area with fenced area for chickens who require food and water and letting in and out of their house am and pm plus fresh eggs to eat! Three rescue cats; Mercy, Piper and Moët who all need feeding, play and cuddles. The house leads onto a bridle way with lovely safe walks including about 30 mins across fields to a lovely dog friendly pub with good food.
Show more...Meet the pets
Lulu
6 years
Wooster
2 years
Mercy
11 years
Piper
4 years
Moet
4 years
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This my was my first house sit and such an enjoyable experience!! Henni and Lulu are well behaved and loving and introduced me to the concept of dog friendly pubs. There are all kinds of opportunities for walks in the country and the dogs never caused me any anxiety with regards to running off. Sally left me explicit instructions and contact numbers for information around the neighbourhood and local walks. I would highly recommend this shit especially if you enjoy the country living. Annette Pelletier
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We’ve just spent a very enjoyable 4 weeks in Sally and Raoul’s lovely home looking after Hinnie, Lulu and Mercy. Sally is very well organised and a good communicator and left very useful notes to help us with the care of the pets and also other useful information regarding the house and local area. The house is situated in beautiful countryside with lots of lovely dog walks on the doorstep, which Hinnie and Lulu took great pleasure in showing us! Both the dogs and Mercy the cat are absolutely gorgeous - well trained and very affectionate, we enjoyed lots of cuddles over our stay and were very sorry to leave them behind at the end! We would definitely be happy to return for another sit here in the future.
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This housesit was fantastic. Sally and Raoul made us very welcome as did Hinny and Lulu. Sally is a very good communicator and her notes and maps for walking Hinny and Lulu were very useful. We found the home clean and very comfortable and it was close enough to points of interest to enable us to see the area without compromising our responsibilities of looking after the animals. The dogs love being walked and playing outside with the throw ball. We really enjoyed this sit and would highly recommend Sally for future house sitters. We would go back in a heartbeat.
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Sally & Raoul
