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Using Rover For Pet Sitting - Travel Tip Tuesday · Travel Mug Podcast

• 0:00
  Jenn: Hey everyone.
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  Jenn: Welcome back to Travel Tip Tuesday with the Travel Mug Podcast.
• 0:05
  Jenn: I, as you know, if you've listened to last week's episode, I have recently returned from my trip to Florida, and you may or may not know that I have three animals at home.
• 0:19
  Jenn: Uh, So we have two cats.
• 0:22
  Jenn: One very senior, 18 year old cat, one 10 year old cat, and then a new dog who is like one to two years old.
• 0:31
  Jenn: So obviously I have to think about them when we travel, they need to be cared for.
• 0:37
  Jenn: So in the past we have always relied on family and friends to help us care for our animals when we travel.
• 0:44
  Jenn: But now, especially with the dog that we adopted in July, it, it feels like too big of an ask to ask someone to care for three animals.
• 0:54
  Jenn: So of course, I turn to the internet.
• 0:58
  Jenn: As one does, and I found rover.com.
• 1:02
  Jenn: So basically it's a website that connects you with pet care in your neighborhood.
• 1:08
  Jenn: So whether it's boarding, house, sitting even like drop-in visits and dog walking if if you're just at work and not traveling.
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  Jenn: So, Everything is done on the website or the app.
• 1:21
  Jenn: So from booking, communication with the person and payment is all done through them.
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  Jenn: What I really loved is the sitters have background checks.
• 1:32
  Jenn: You can read reviews, there's insurance um, for vet care or property damage to the pet owner's home if it's caused by the sitter or dog walker.
• 1:42
  Jenn: So, yeah, we've been using this service over the last couple of months.
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  Jenn: We've done a couple of different sitters and we've always had really great experiences.
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  Jenn: So the sitter that we used while we were in Florida checked in with us every day.
• 1:55
  Jenn: She sent us photos and she also took really good care of our house.
• 2:00
  Jenn: which is really,
• 2:01
  Meggan: we love that.
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  Meggan: We love, like, you know, our pets being taken care of, but also feeling secure that your house is being taken care of as well.
• 2:09
  Meggan: The lights are on someone's home and no one's gonna break in.
• 2:12
  Meggan: Like, we like that too.
• 2:13
  Jenn: Yeah, for sure.
• 2:14
  Jenn: And especially in the winter, you know, I'm not, I don't wanna be worried about my pipes freezing and bursting or something.
• 2:20
  Meggan: right, right.
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  Jenn: So Rover, I, I looked into it.
• 2:23
  Jenn: So Rover is actually available.
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  Jenn: All across Canada and in nine other countries, so U S A, Italy, the UK, France, other ones as well.
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  Jenn: And listen, I live in a small town, so if I could find multiple dog sitters in my tiny town, I'm sure you can find.
• 2:44
  Jenn: Meggan: If I could find somebody Seriously.
• 2:49
  Jenn: Yeah, I just, I, I have a lot of friends who have pets who have never.
• 2:56
  Jenn: Of this service and actually another one of my friends used Rover.
• 3:01
  Jenn: It typically they do dogs and cats.
• 3:04
  Jenn: My friend used it for her cat and her chickens.
• 3:07
  Jenn: She found someone to help her care for her chickens while she was traveling.
• 3:10
  Jenn: So it's, it is really great.
• 3:12
  Jenn: I'm gonna pop a little link in the shownotes.
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  Jenn: Um, Where if you book through it, you, you will save $20 on your first visit.
• 3:20
  Jenn: In full transparency, I will get a $20 credit as well.
• 3:23
  Jenn: Like, it's not, this is not sponsored by Rover.
• 3:26
  Jenn: We just, we had a really good experience and I think a lot of people don't know that this is out there and I can't like say enough how amazing it is to know that your animals and your, your space, your home is being cared for while you travel.
• 3:45
  Jenn: Like.
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  Jenn: It's just, it's so, such a great feeling.
• 3:49
  Jenn: So that's it.
• 3:50
  Jenn: That's all the tips that I have for today.
• 3:53
  Jenn: Yeah, if you found this episode helpful if you could share the show with a travel loving pal.
• 3:59
  Jenn: A travel loving pet parent, that would be amazing.
• 4:04
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• 4:09
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• 4:16
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• 4:25
  Jenn: Bye
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  Meggan: bye.