Farm Sitting
I offer local farm sitting for the Cranbrook area. I have decades of experience with horses, goats, sheep and all types of dogs, functional boarding or breeding kennels, working dogs or kennel free pets. I am also happy to sit your family of small animals while you are away.
- For farm sitting further than 15 minutes from Cranbrook, travel fees apply.
- I do have my own 3 working dogs that travel with me. Unless otherwise agreed to, they will stay seperated on a crate and rotate schedule. I will require a secure space to kennel them in your home or kennel area.
- If your stock is dog broke, I am happy to move or sort them with my dogs if need be.
- I do my best to leave your property better than I found it. That means you will come home to your house as tidy as you left it, and will minimal trace I was even there.
- For locations further than 15 minutes / 25km from Cranbrook, there will be travel fees applied during the work week at $0.70/km per day.
- Without special arrangements, I am not exepting farm sits over lambing season, or during puppy welping at this time. Please reach out if you would like to dicuss further.
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Base Rate $80 / day - $50 partial day
This applies to an hour of labour per day or less. That can include feeding or turn out of livestock, a brief walk for a group of dogs per day plus feedings. I will stay in your home, care for it as if it's my own so that someone is around to watch livestock and keep dogs company.
Added Labour $25/hour
For things like mucking out paddocks or stalls, complex turn-out with mutiple blankets, multiple rotations of dogs, multiple seperate groups of dogs for excercise, any medical care for animals, or in general, a daily routine that takes more than one hour collectively per day, there will be a $25/ hour fee, rounded up to the nearest half hour.
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For farms that require more than 2 hours of chores per day or are located more than 30 minutes from Cranbrook, bookings are limited to weekends and specific arrangements during the work week. There will be limitted availability each year for these slots.