Travelling with your dog is lovely, it allows you to see everything at another speed, to make encounters utterly different from those you did before and to orientate your days differently. Although there are many pet-friendly places around the world, there will always be situations in which we must leave our friend to be able to see more freely.
Just think of a museum, a concert, a nature reserve, diving. In many cases, we can leave the dog in the hotel or in the house where we are staying, in others it is more appropriate to entrust it to a dog sitter.
How to Find a Pet Sitter When You Travel
Some various ways and platforms can help you when we need someone to keep our dog company while we travel.
Ask the hotel or who rented the house from us if you know a dog sitter:
A dog-friendly facility has a network of connections, so you likely know someone who does this job or who has friends who are passionate about dogs who can take care of our friend for a few hours. Usually, I trust a suggestion given in person. I doubt that someone will expose themselves in this way being able to crack the relationship with a client, on such a delicate topic.
Pawshake:
Pawshake is a well-organized platform that allows you to find a pet sitter throughout Europe and also in many non-European countries. Each pet sitter has a description, indicates what it can offer, if it lives with animals, if it has a house with outdoor space, for what it is available.
Not all of them are accepted as petsitters, company screening is required to be approved. It has a reasonably widespread coverage, not only in large cities but in many small towns. It is also possible to meet the pet sitter before actually leaving the pet to him.
The service also provides veterinary coverage during the stay. Also, all payments are channelled through the site, which guarantees additional security because at any time you can report any problems encountered to Pawshake. The service is available both desktop and app.
Petme:
This service is mainly Italian. It is a verified platform that brings together petsitter and customer, from the possibility of providing the service at the home of the owner or pet sitter, also in this case you pay via the platform, they accept both credit card that bank transfer
Yoopies:
this French platform allows you to find any service you need, from cleaning service to babysitting to dogsitter, let’s say that in this article we will only deal with help for animals. It is an international platform so you can find support in many European countries and beyond that in Italy. It always maintains the review system and payment guarantees.
Trustedhousesitters:
This service is entirely different, in reality, I will write an ad hoc article, but maybe someone can also serve it while reading this post. Trustedhousesitters allows you to find a house-sitter, that is, a person who will move to your home while you are travelling and who will take care of your pets. It is very useful for those who do not want to give their additional pet stress and do not want to retire it.
It is a free service, that is, you provide accommodation in your home for free, and the person takes care of the dog and the house. The platform is based on the network and on ensuring their seriousness, but I will talk more about it elsewhere.