Pets + Pet Sitting
Over the years we’ve developed our own kit to take with us to every house sit we complete. From dog walking gear to pet sitting website memberships, these products are our pet care and house sitting essentials.
Rover
We love using Rover to find paid pet sitting gigs – use this link to set up your profile as a pet sitter and earn a £15 credit on your account!
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Trusted Housesitters
We can’t thank Trusted Housesitters enough for starting our pet sitting journey back in 2017! Use this link to receive 25% off your membership.
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MOO business cards
We love using MOO to create professional business cards for our pet sitting business. The quality is incredible and they’re perfect for giving our details to dog owners when we’re out on walkies. Use our link below to receive 25% off your first order with MOO!
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Dicky Bag
Our Dicky Bag is our favourite item for dog walks in the countryside! A portable, odour-free bin for holding empty and full dog poo bags, for those times when bins are few and far between. The Neoprene style is water resistant and is machine washable at 30 degrees!
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Dicky Bag disks
These Dicky Bag disks have been designed to fit the Medium – Extra Large Dicky Bags, to keep the bag smelling fresh!
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Dicky Treat bag
This treat bag has a small slot at the top for quick-to-grab treats, and we find it’s roomy enough for a lot of them! Your four-legged friends will thank you.
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Earth Rated dog poo bags
We’re so happy every time we arrive at a pet sit to find Earth Rated dog poo bags. They’re big and strong, so no mess is getting out, and they’re made from recycled plastic too!
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Beco compostable dog poo bags
We love finding Beco bags at a house sit – especially these compostable ones. They can be disposed of in home compost bins, so we feel good knowing we’re doing our bit for the planet!
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Earth Rated dog poo bag dispenser
The most elegant poo bag dispenser we’ve ever seen! This design from Earth Rated is sleek and easy to fill, AND has a hook on the back to carry full bags.
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ChuckIt! balls
The ultimate ball for endless games of fetch with four-legged friends! These Chuckit balls are ridiculously bouncy and buoyant, and their bright colour makes them easy to find (no more rooting through tall grass!) They’re made to last with an extra-thick rubber core, and the smooth surface means we can easily wipe it clean and put it back in our bag – good as new for our next doggo pals!
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Foldable dog bowl
We always carry a silicone bowl on our dog walks. Small enough to fold and fit in a bag, and has a carabiner to clip onto a belt loop.
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Flexi lead 5m
We love Flexi leads for those times when dogs can’t be let off lead, but we want to give them a little more freedom. This 5 metre Flexi is good for small and tiny dogs.
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Flexi lead 8m
We find an 8 metre Flexi is good for walks in the countryside, when there aren’t many other people and dogs around and we can give dogs more freedom to roam.
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Ruffwear shock-absorbing dog lead
This lead is great for walking big or strong dogs – the bungee element takes the shock out of a sudden pull, so you can stay on your feet!
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Ruffwear harness
This Ruffwear harness is heavy duty but lightweight, with 6 adjustment points so you can tailor it to fit any dog. Our trip-pawd buddy Leah has this harness and it’s fantastic for helping her on our walkies!
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Beco dog bowl
This elegant bamboo bowl from Beco is lightweight and great to take from place to place, if you want something more sturdy than a foldable silicone bowl.
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Tick remover
If you’ve ever had to remove a tick using tweezers, you’ll know how difficult it is. After a particularly stressful experience at a pet sit, we invested in a tick tool and couldn’t believe how well it worked! Now we safely remove ticks from ourselves and our four-legged friends in seconds!
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Ring security camera
If we ever need to leave pets at home for a short time when pet sitting, for example to do our food shopping, we set up this sleek and subtle Ring camera system to remotely monitor the pets from our phones while we’re out. We can speak through the camera via our phones too – in the past we’ve used this function to tell a dog to get down from a dining table…
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Apple TV
An Apple TV lets us log into all our streaming accounts – Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ etc. – in one small, portable device. This means at pet sits we can plug in our Apple TV and instantly watch anything through our accounts, meaning we don’t have to log into the home owner’s, and we can start watching our favourite shows straight away without messing up their watch history!
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OTTY pillow
We discovered OTTY pillows at a house sit in 2021 and immediately invested in some for ourselves. They have foam pieces inside so you can remove or add more to adjust the firmness. We now bring ours to every house sit so we know we’ll always have a comfortable pillow to sleep on.
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Multi port charger
We bought this ultra sleek multi-port charger after completing so many pet sits in older houses where there were too few wall outlets to charge all our gear! This charger plugs into the wall and has four ports (2 USB-A and 2 USB-C) for charging multiple devices simultaneously, including our laptops, all from one outlet!
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Apple AirTag
These little trackers from Apple allow you to track things from your iPhone. We clip one onto a dog’s collar when we’re out on walkies while pet sitting, for peace of mind just in case a dog decides to chase after something and runs off!
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Head torch
Whenever we’re out for night time walkies while pet sitting, we take this bright head torch with us so we don’t have to rely on our phones being charged to use a torch! We can see where we’re walking on narrow countryside paths and it alerts drivers to our presence when walking along dark roads with our four-legged friends.
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Dog car seat belt
It’s vital to ensure dogs we’re pet sitting are secure in our van if we need to drive them anywhere. This dog seat belt clicks into a normal seat belt slot, and simply clips onto a dog’s harness (NEVER on a collar) so we know our pooches are safe and comfortable.
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Hi vis arm bands
For late night dog walks, or long hikes into the evening, we attach these reflective velcro bands to our arms and bags. We make sure we’re visible from all angles with the placement of these bands to alert drivers, horse riders and other walkers to our presence in low light, ensuring we’re safe while out and about.
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