My experience comes from years of being drawn to and getting on well with all sorts of animals, but my main experience comes from a number of House-sitting jobs I've had in New Zealand over the past year. I've looked after dogs - young and very old, birds, chickens, fish and cats over the past year and enjoyed every second! I'm living on the NSW Central Coast and am available any time. I have copies of a couple of references from the NZ website I went through for the house sitting if you'd like to see them :-)