Countryside House and Furry Friends Sitting Services

07/26/2025

Sleepover with these boys tonight! Theres a lady pup too but shes in her plush bed getting her beauty sleep in silence away from the snoring boys 😂❤️

Such sweet pups ❤️

07/21/2025

We are booked for the month of July! Thank you so much everyone for your support!

We aren't taking any clients for the week of 8/9-8/17. We're going to take a few summer days for ourselves 😄

Come August we're (very likely) to have a change. Haven is thinking (very strongly) about going back to public school. With this we will still take clients but we will have to slow way down because I will be returning to the workforce. We will still take a couple of clients throughout the month but it will be a handful, not the bushel we normally take.

If we already booked you for August etc, we have you covered, don't worry! Again, we're not stopping completely!

Thank you so very much for all of your support it has meant so much to us!

07/10/2025

Hey y'all! We have daily openings through the rest of July! We only have one overnight spot open for July! We are completely open for August and the rest of the year! We only have one overnight available for August!Thank you so SO much for trusting us with your pets and homes! We truly appreciate it!

We do have openings for the end of June and July! You can message us here on Facebook, you'll either talk to Patricia (mom) or Haven (shes trying to learn and take up more of the admin side!) or you can text two5four-5twothree-8seventwo7.

Phone number goes to moms phone- both of us will be able to respond. We'll try to remember to tell you who you're talking to (mom will be double checking texts for dates to keep calendar straight!)

We do have multiple references.

Remember we do overnights now starting at $100 (regardless of the amount of animals you have) $150 for holidays!

We will go as far as an hour and a half away from Gatesville for overnights if its at least 3 consecutive nights or more. If you are this far from Gatesville please try to book a month in advance.

**We won't be doing overnights for Christmas week-- Haven goes between two households in that short span and adding an overnight would be a lot. We WILL continue regular daily care that week**

Homesteads/ranches run between $50-75 this depends on if we have bottle babies, birthing mamas or any other type of special thing to do.

Regular prices are $35/day for the first pet, $5/day/pet after that (up to $50)- if you have 15 cats for example (-❤️ you our biggest kitty client-) we're not going to count by head 😂 we try to stay with 20 miles of our house/Gatesville

Regular prices include twice a day feeding, watering, playing for 30 minutes (we're usually there longer), walking, watering garden, checking mail and packages and putting them somewhere safe, and litter boxes.

If you want more than two visits a day its $5/extra visit/day..

07/08/2025

07/07/2025

Haven is at her first youth camp this week! We're praying for a fun, safe week and that she makes new friends and learns good stuff!

Triton and I will be caring for our clients while Haven is out being a kid and enjoying summer for a few days!

07/05/2025

🛟⛑️If you're going to Kerr Co or other areas with severe flooding to help with the rescue/respite efforts and need someone to check on your pets here, let us know. We'd like to try to help out! 🏡🐾

Its just Triton and I this week but we can handle a couple of places.

07/05/2025

Committed to the job 🤣 Let me paint you a funny (after the fact), weather story friends, in light of the neighboring devastation

Haven is in Austin shopping with her cousins and aunt For a girls day.
We're overnighting at a ranch with horses, cows, goats, pigs, chickens, dogs and cats. It stopped raining for 1.5 hours after 2 days and 6" of rain so I took the opportunity to run out and check the ranch animals. One of the pigs got out of its pen and was hanging with the goats and the pasture is a mess with 4" deep mud and I'm trying to rush the fence fix and feeding before it rains again. So I get JR and Triton out to help me. We get the pig back in its pen, secure the fencing and drive a t-post deeper into the mud. We get that done before it starts raining, not too hard, went pretty smooth and the pig was nice. I'm feeling pretty optimistic at this point. 🙄

I fill the buckets while the guys take the feed to the correct places so we can move faster than the encroaching clouds. All we have left is the horses, the cows and the alpaca 😑

Haven and I came up with a system that *usually* works with the horses if they're pastured with the cows we shut the pasture gates and funnel one horse at a time through (otherwise, its slightly chaotic). I tell Triton to let one horse through, he does. Its the mildly spicy mare (the little one, you know what I'm saying); she trots up to her stable all nice and is suddenly like "I am NOT going in there. Theres water. Ain't doing it." I fought with her for 5 minutes and she just was not going to do it. So I decide "fine, I'll just put her in this little blocked off piece of pasture." And thats what I do... To prepare that piece I had to close some gates. To close the gates I had to go through mud. The mud there is shin dip, sucky and sticky so my boots got stuck, one left my foot and got mud and water in it all over my sock up to my knee. I couldn't move. Triton had to save me before I became like the horse in the Neverending Story. While the country neighbors got to hear me yell about how much I LOOOOVE the moment and my husband joked about about a free mud bath 😑🤬

The mare was standing in the driest spot like "wth are you doing, quit fooling around and bring my food."

I'm covered in mud. The other, not little horses 👀, go up beautifully and without acting like a diva and eat peacefully.

The cows and alpaca get their food and everyone (but me) is happy.

Its margherita time now, right?

The end!

07/05/2025

Triton, big brother/oldest kiddo is back from the military! He wants to help us out while hes waiting for school to start so we're opening our books for July! If you need a pet/house sitter at all this month Triton is available!

07/02/2025

We have last minute daily openings for the dates between 7/7-7/18! We also had an overnight in August open up! Let us know if you need us to watch your home or pets during this time!

06/27/2025

We are booked for overnights in July and August, and are completely booked out for July. We’ll be available for daily services starting 8/11! If you have any questions, feel free to message us or contact two54-5two3-8727. Hope you have a wonderful weekend! - Haven and Trish