Angela Laws is the 72-year-old social media and community manager at TrustedHousesitters, representing the heart and soul of this Sharing community. Angela has been with the company from the very beginning, combining her love for pet sitting with her full-time job. TrustedHousesitters is a membership-based house and pet sitting platform bringing together a worldwide community of home and pet owners and pet-loving sitters. Now in over 130 countries, TrustedHousesitters has helped make Generation Share possible by being our global sponsor.

We’re delighted to sponsor Generation Share, spreading the word that we are here to enable our community to share an exchange of value and trust.

Travelling owners share their homes and pets and, in doing so, pet lovers are able to travel more while pets stay happy at home. TrustedHousesitters is a unique platform, built on pure sharing. No money changes hands between members, it’s a completely altruistic arrangement. That’s the beauty of it. This is a community that builds friendships around the world, connecting like-minded animal lovers.

I started pet sitting as a way to heal after losing my beloved dog, Holly. My first sit was for a cocker spaniel, Charlie, who belonged to a young widow. She’d lost her husband to cancer and didn’t want to put Charlie into kennels, so I looked after him while she went away on business. It was the most cathartic thing I had ever done. I wanted animals in my life, but I knew the time wasn’t right for me to have another pet of my own. Sitting helped me find joy again.

Not long after, a young man called Andy Peck contacted me. He was starting TrustedHousesitters based on the idea that he would build a community of pet lovers that adored animals so much, they would care for them for free. Connecting with people just like me with a passion for animals, helping people and sharing trust – I had to be involved.

TrustedHousesitters doesn’t just help dog and cat owners, we help all creatures great and small. We share this planet with animals; we don’t own it and we should look at them as beings to be kept safe, whether in the wild or at home.