Home visits for your animals

Little Dolittle provides a home visit service for the following animals:​

• Cat

• Rabbit

• Poultry

• Fish

• Tortoise/turtle

• Guinea pig

• Hamster                       

• Gerbil      

• Insect                                     

• Mouse

• Ferret

• Degu                

• Amphibian                                                                     

   

Pricing

Home visit prices (based on a maximum of 30 minutes per visit):

 

£14.00 for one daily visit

 

£22.00 for two daily visits

 

For visits of longer than 30 minutes, price on application.

 

Each visit includes:

• Feeding and watering

• Cleaning

• Exercise and handling

• Giving medication (if necessary)

• Other services, including watering plants, collecting post, putting out bins, etc.

 

Service area and mileage cost

Little Dolittle provides home visit services within a 4-mile radius of Tibshelf, measured as a one-way trip. While no mileage fees are charged for visits located within Tibshelf itself, all other visits incur a travel charge of £1.00 per mile. Additionally, any home visit located between a 2 and 4-mile radius of Tibshelf will incur a £5.00 surcharge per visit. Please note that we are unable to accept bookings for any location exceeding this 4-mile limit.

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Enclosures and equipment

Little Dolittle cannot be held liable for costs relating to damage to cages and animal enclosures, accessories (such as lighting, etc). If lighting or heating provided by the customer stops working then Little Dolittle will do its best to replace the item but the cost must be reimbursed by the owner on their return. 

 

Food

Little Dolittle requests customers to supply their own dried/live/frozen food, hay/straw, fruit, vegetables and plants to cover the duration of the booking. In the event that additional items need to be purchased (pet food, litter, cleaning supplies or other necessary items that contribute to the health and wellbeing of your pet), Little Dolittle will purchase these and retain a receipt. The pet owner is responsible for reimbursement of these items within 7 days of the customer’s return.

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Keeping you updated

As part of the boarding and home visit service, we are happy to send you regular updates on your pet(s). We know they are a big part of your family and you miss them. We regularly share pictures/videos of the pets in our care on our social media pages and/or website. We ask all customers to let us know via our booking form if they would prefer that we do not share pictures/videos of their pets. We ensure that all of the pictures and videos we share do not serve to identify the owner/property. For your security, no photos/videos are shared on social media until after you have safely returned home.

 

Booking

New customers are required to complete both a booking form and a pet registration form for our first visit. For all subsequent visits, returning customers must submit a new booking form; however, a new pet registration form is only necessary if your pet’s information has changed since our last visit.

 

An initial free visit will be organised at your home after receipt of the booking form. This will be an opportunity to introduce your pet(s) to Little Dolittle, discuss the requirements of your pet(s), share any concerns, key drop-off arrangements, alarm/padlock codes, location of pet’s supplies at customer’s home, discussion of other services required (watering plants, collecting post, putting bins out, etc). Full written instructions are required from the customer (via the booking form/pet registration form) to ensure that the expected services are delivered.

 

For new customers, we do request a non-returnable deposit of £20.00 to secure the booking. Please refer to our terms and conditions for payment information.