Pets & farm animals

Our eldest dog is Maisy. She is a 9 year old golden retriever and is absolutely adorable. She loves pats and 4 or 5 blocks is the limit for walks. Maisy has very good manners generally and should be no trouble to look after. Our younger dog is May. She is a 4 year old Maremma sheep dog fostered then adopted from the RSPCA in June this year. May is very gentle and loves pats also. She has suffered trauma (neglect and starvation) before joining our family, so needs a calm environment and we are still working on some of her manners around human food - she will sometimes attempt to eat from the table and often attempts to eat our food if we are sitting on the couch. Otherwise, May is a very sweet dog and very gentle with Maisy, Damien the cat, our teenage kids and any visitors we have had. If May is stressed, she will cower and will take herself outside. Our cat, Damien, is a 3 year old rescue tabby cat. He has been part of our family since June last year. Damien is a friendly cat, provided we respect his boundaries. He likes to rub his face against us, will often sit next to us and sleep at our feet at night. He can be too assertive toward the dogs at times. He will lie in wait, pounce and hiss at them every so often, so both dogs are quite wary of him. He doesn’t like to be picked up or carried, although sometimes we do if he is intimidating the dogs, preventing them from coming inside.

House Tasks

Please give love to our animals. They are used to being fed twice daily and the dogs like going for a short walk (about 4 blocks).