Michael and Harri

Hello, we are experienced carers who have three beautiful cats that rule our home in Espoo (02620) for the last 11 years 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛.

In total, we have around 20+ years owning pets and 3 years caring for them on Pawshake. About us: Michael and Harri are married and have been together for 12 years, with no children. We both enjoy art, music, cooking, nature and travel.

CATS. Our puuurfect services mostly include cat visits (1 x or 2 x a day) or over-night home-boarding (Espoo area only). 🐈🐈‍⬛🛏. We make sure that the usual obvious basic details such as cleaning litter boxes, feeding, watering, brushing and being with them for 15-60 minutes to play or sit depending on their character/stress level and interaction are performed to a high standard that you expect. 

We are very clean and tidy people. As part of our fee we will do light cleaning, watering house plants, light gardening duties, laundry (bed sheets if we stay overnight) and vacuuming, so you come back to a clean home, which is what everyone wants after a trip away ❤🏠🧽🧹🌱.

We are responsible with your house keys and alarm codes and will secure your house and pets from escaping. 

We travel by electric bike 🛴. We can also drive 🚗 so if you live further away and have a spare car that I can use whilst your away to travel to and from work, then I'm potentially interested to home board for you and care for your pets.

We can also administer diabetic insulin 💉 💊 and other medication orally as we have a diabetic cat ourselves.

In addition, we also have experience looking after rabbits, tortoises, rats, hamsters, birds🐀🐢 🐇🐤 and guinea pigs as well as tropical fish🐟. So contact if your pet is more unusual also.

Michael can speak conversational Finnish so please drop a message in Finnish also if you want to. Harri speaks Finnish, English and some Spanish 🇫🇮🇬🇧 🇪🇸.

We will give you a stress free, hassle free, easy, flexible and caring service to you and your pets. 🐈‍⬛🐕🐅🦔🦜🦛🐫🐘🦌🦩.

We look forward to hearing from you and let's meet to arrange a face to face introductory meeting! 🏁👍

PS: DOGS. As much as we are cat people 🦹‍♂️ We also can care for dogs 🐕🐕‍🦺🐩. Michael grew up with dogs during his childhood. However, we have some personal restrictions. We prefer walking/housesitting small/medium/large sized dogs and we can housesit with a much bigger dog if it doesn't require too much walking or is well trained on a leash. Mixed cat/dog households are no problem based on our preferences. 🚨 We have no experience walking multiple dogs at one time so we do not offer this service (please ignore the pricing). We can only accept dogs who have been trained on a leash to some degree by their owners.

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*I will always communicate with you throughout the trip if you need updates/reports and photos etc via pawshake. 📸

*A booking is only guaranteed if it is paid for through pawshake ahead of time/ or on-time. This is normally after we have a brief introductory meeting at your residence.

*Repeat customers do not need to have another introductory meeting with us, unless something has changed with your pets that we need to know about. We are happy to go free of charge to meet up with your pets again to know any changes. 

*If you book us for overnight stays we arrive to your house in the evening (around 17:00 - 20:00) then vaccate your house in the morning (around 08:00 - 12:00). If you need us to arrive earlier on the 1st day of arrival or stay later on the last day of check out, then you must book an extra visit, as its outside housesitting hours. During our stay we will spend as much time with your pet as we can and our main focus is on your pets. Please allow for some gaps where work may be involved etc and normal times outside of the house if needed.

*We can also communicate with you via WhatsApp when the caring is taking place if its easier for you.

*Our cancellation fee is semi flexible. You can cancel if you cannot travel but you may have to pay a small percentage if the booking is cancelled on short notice (within 7 days). We can discuss this however if there is a significant issue.

*key collection is generally given by the owner to us, at a convenient place or to our home in Karakallio near the date of the booking. We also can take the key at the introductory meeting if the booking is a few days away but we do not keep your keys for longer periods of time. We will always leave your key back to you in an agreed place.

*We are flexible so if you are delayed back we will continue the service and hold onto your keys.

* We give an small aftercare service, which involves us writing a message to you when your back to make sure everything was OK. 🙏👌