Couple of Pet-Sitter Questions

cosmicpixie · Member Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 100

In a couple of months we are going on vacation to see my family. The four ferrets will stay behind since it will be too hot for them to travel. We usually have our next door neighbor babysit them for us. Has anybody used a pet sitter or is a pet sitter. And anybody know what the going rate of pay is for a pet sitter for small animals is? Thanks

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tuttifrutti · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject:

Whenever we go we usually just get a neighbor. we pay a little over 10 dollars a day, only that will probably go up now, since we have more than a dog and a cat. it will probably be 15 now, because we have 2 possums, a gecko, and a snake. I really don't know the going rate, or what you would pay for 4 ferrets. the only problem you might encounter that i know of is people afraid of the ferrets. i don't know why any pet sitters would be, but neighbors may be.

horse_child · Member Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 433

Everyone that lives one "our" mountain will pet sit for everyone else. We have 16 birds, 1 rabbit, 1 horse, 2 dogs, and 2 cats. We pet sit for a neighbor iwth 1 dog and 2 cats, another with 1 dog, and another with 2 dogs, a cat, and 6 horses. We all just take turns. It works really well. Maybe you can work something like that out in your neighborhood?