These pages are Tamara’s Home & Hound, an independent care provider on Dapple.
What it costs
Three services, three prices, the same every day of the week except bank holidays. The overnight rate covers one pet, and each extra pet is £25 a night. The introductory visit beforehand is free.
Overnight in your home
£50a night
Each extra pet
£25 a night
Bank holidays
Nights start at £60
Drop-in visits
£15 for 30 minutes · £22 for an hour
More than one pet, overnight
More than one pet, drop-in visits
Not a fixed surcharge. Tell me what is in the house when you send your dates and I will quote the visit before anything is booked.
Written into the care notes before your first night.
I stay at your house overnight, your animals keep their normal routine, and the house looks lived in while you are away. Walks are included in an overnight dog sit. The rate covers one pet; each additional pet is £25 a night.
Long enough for a proper walk, medication, or company for a dog who should not be on their own all day.
Feed, fresh water, litter tray, toilet break and ten minutes of attention. Suits most cats twice a day.
Bank-holiday rates apply on official bank holidays in England. Bank holiday nights start at £60, with the same £25 per extra pet per night. I will tell you exactly which of your nights I am treating as a bank holiday when I quote, so it is settled before you agree to anything.
Drop-in visits run within about five miles of York and overnight stays reach up to about fifteen miles. There is no travel surcharge. Further out than that, ask anyway. Whether I can take it depends on what else is in the diary that week.
Once we have met and we both want to go ahead, the payment is set up on your own booking page. The agreed deposit secures the booking, and the balance is asked for on its own date, which you can see from the start. Pay when it suits you on the day it falls due, and I never handle your card details.
Because I would like to meet your dog or your cat before I promise them a fortnight of my time. The introductory visit happens at your house, it takes about half an hour, and it is free. It is also the only way I can tell you properly whether I am the right person for them, and it is when I meet them and find out how their day already works.
Cancel more than two days before the booking starts and there is nothing to pay. Cancel inside that, and the deposit is what you lose. I don’t charge the rest of the booking on top. If I have to cancel, you get everything you have paid back in full.
Dates, your postcode, and what animals you have. I usually reply the same day, with one figure covering the whole booking.
What happens next
I reply to say whether the dates are free.
We talk it through, then I come round to meet you and your animals.
The visit is free, and you book after it if you are happy.
