About Us

Pet & Property Sitters was established in 1994 by a retired teacher looking to do something with her spare time in retirement.  The business soon took off, leading her to recruit sitters to work with her, and eventually her daughter to work alongside and eventually take over the business. 

At the time I was running an admin and marketing support business called Rapport Admin Solutions after an intial career in events and tourism.  This business lead me to work with Pet & Property, eventually being offered the opportunity to take the business over myself.  Being a farmers daughter with a life long passion for dogs, cats, and well any animal, I jumped at the opportunity!

I have now run Pet & Property Sitters for nearly 20 years, growing the business and recruiting a fantastic team of friendly, reliable sitters and matching them with our regular and new clients.  You name it, we have seen it, done it, laughed about it! There is no point working with animals if you have no sense of humour. For nearly 10 years I set off and did live in sitting myself as I did not believe in employing anyone to do something that I had done myself.  During these years I gathered a wealth of first hand experience of the reality of pet sitting which has proved to be invaulable as I bring new people and clients to our team.  I have seen companies come and go, claiming to have re-written the pet sitting book but firmly believe our longevity is based on our traditional values.

During the Covid pandemic we lost everything.  Our entire business was wiped out overnight.  During that time I started another small business in order to support Pet & Property and to try and ensure our sitters could stay in employment afterwards.  And so Lilybet Loves was born! 

Lilybet Loves sells a variety of personalised goods home and pet items along with our extremly popular gonk collection.  Who knew that we would swap from pets to gonks?! As Pet & Property continues to come back to life after the pandemic we have become mainly a local festive business but now look forward to combining our little shop onto our website so that our clients can treat themselves while treating their pets!

Outside of work I live in Harrogate with my two Jack Russell terriers who like to be out and about causing as much trouble as possible!  We split our time between patrolling our local area to being back on the farm where I grew up!