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House Sitting Preferences
  • 2 - 4 weeks, 1 - 2 months, 2 months +
  • Dog(s), Bird(s)
Preferred Locations
  • QLD: Brisbane, Central Coast, Northern, South Eastern   TAS: ALL  
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  • 2025: 31 Jan - 15 Feb | 1 Mar - 31 May

Home/Pet Carers Extraordinaire

75, Retired IT & Accounting Professional

75, Retired Nurse

Your home and any pets would be our top priority.
Please allow us to introduce ourselves. We are a retired couple with professional backgrounds, Jan having a distinguished nursing career and Doug with a background of accounting and IT.

We both have current National Police Checks and both have current Working with Vulnerable People checks.

We have lived overseas in Asia for 5 years in the 80's and 90's and NZ during the 60's fulfilling work commitments. We have 2 well settled children and 7 grandchildren and love dogs.

We are currently in Brisbane Queensland.
We are both members of Lions Clubs International and have been for the past 44years.

Most of our housesits now come from resits or word of mouth referrals..

Having owned a Golden Retriever for some 14 years, we would love to hear from anyone looking for a responsible couple to look after your property and pets.

References are available from previous house sits.

We are more than willing to make contact either by Skype, FaceTime or video Messenger or simple telephone calls and be rest assured you would not be disappointed if we do housesit for you.

Kind Regards
Doug & Jan

Reviews (10)
No rating We recommend Doug & Jan to anyone who require housesitters. We still keep in contact.
IAN AND DIANNE (Mt Wedge Elliston SA, Jul 2017 - 1 month 2 weeks)
Doug and Jan are the most wonderful house and pet sitters. During our first conversation Doug put us at ease with his genuine understanding and care about looking after our 1 year old dog who has plenty of energy and still in training. Our dog is anxious around strangers, and she warmed to Doug and Jan instantly. They also took the time to meet our dog with us before we left. Their experience with dogs was clear as they gave ours so much love and kept up her routines. We came home to an ... MORE
 
LOUISA (Kangaroo Point QLD, Jul 2024 - 1 week 2 nights)
Doug and Jan are the most wonderful people you would ever want to meet. Anyone who manages to engage this couple for a housesit can be confident their home and any pets are being managed by capable, caring and happy people who love their housesitting role, and love animals. They totally won over my cantankerous dog who is missing them. Doug and Jan will be welcomed back to my house anytime
 
SALLY (Buderim QLD, Jun 2024 - 2 weeks 5 nights)
Doug and Jan were truly wonderful. Our little dog Max was so happy and well cared for when we arrived home. (In fact he was quite unsure initially as to who to align with). We arrived home to a lovely curry for dinner and with everything clean, pool and garden healthy. What more could one ask for? We would highly recommend Doug and Jan and intend to have them back to look after Max and our house whenever we go away.
 
SUE (Clayfield QLD, May 2022 - 2 weeks 2 days)
Doug and Jan are the perfect house sitters one could ask for. Communication was right on the money.We knew straight away we could rest easy on our holidays and leave our darling pet dog and the house in great care.Thanks again guys ..we would highly recommend Doug and Jan
 
CHAD (Riverside TAS, Dec 2021 - 15 days)
Doug and Jan took great care of our house and dog while we were away. It was nice to come home to a clean house and happy dog.
 
JOAN (Wurtulla QLD, Apr 2021 - 1 week)
Wonderful house sitters. Definitely would love to have them again if our calendars align.
 
ALICIA & BRUCE (Pirrinuan QLD, Jul 2018 - 2 weeks 5 days)
Thanks Alicia and Bruce. Trust you are keeping well. We are currently in Tasmania and just hope that we can get back to the mainland and Queensland. Cheers Doug & Jan
No rating I was very lucky to have Doug & Jan look after my home & dogs for almost a month while overseas. They were everything you could hope a housesitter would be. I came home to a spotlessly clean house & more importantly 2 very calm, happy, well loved pups. They even went above and beyond & did some extra jobs I'd asked them to help with. Communication was excellent. I would recommend Jan and Doug to anyone who wants a stress free carer for their furry friends & possessions.
REBECCA (Cowwarr VIC, Jun 2017 - 3 weeks)
No rating Doug and Jan communicated with me prior to the housesit so I knew where they were and when they would be arriving, they called in and met me and my 'family' prior to the housesit and they arrived in the morning before I left which was reassuring for me. The communication while I was away was fantastic, I always knew what was happening with my dogs with Doug answering all my messages within an hour or so. I returned to my home absolutely spotless with three dogs all very happy to see me and ... MORE
ROBYN (Leopold VIC, May 2017 - 5 days)
No rating The first thing I would say is "If you want to have a peace of mind knowing that your pets and house are cared for and have a guilt free holiday" you should see if Doug and Jan are available to house sit for you. Even though I only met them on Skype for the first time I knew that they were the right choice for us after talking to them for couple of minutes. They took excellent care of our house and our pets while we were away. I don't think our pets missed us at all - especially Finn. They ... MORE
JYOTHI (Woodvale WA, Oct 2016 - 6 days)
 
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