Cahill’s Critter Care

Megan and all of the Cahill’s Critter Care crew are sincere animal lovers dedicated to keeping your pets happy and healthy when you are away. It feels so good to know if you have to leave your pets, they are in the hands of people who know and love pets the way that you do. The three times I’ve used Cahill’s, I’ve come home to a neat house and happy pets. I suggest Cahill’s to my friends anytime they need pet care and I would give them a wholehearted recommendation.

We were referred to Cahill’s through our former dog walker, who after we had to take a year-​long hiatus, was booked up. We use Cahill’s for dog walking specifically.
Cahill’s has been completely professional and organized since the beginning, and has been really great about coming by on days we have had to add last minute besides our scheduled dates.
Our walker is Megan (the owner) and my dogs adore her. They seem pretty mellow and happy when we return, so she works them out! We get progress notes every day about how they did. Megan has also been great about at times dealing with one of my pups’ sensitive tummies.
I wholeheartedly recommend Megan and Cahill’s. I hope my dogs are good to her and she likes working with them and will continue to keep using her as long as my dogs need walks… which is probably a very long time!

Cahill’s Critter Care offers in-​home pet sitting and dog walking; this review is only in regards to the pet sitting as that is the service we utilized. I will say that I am very particular about our cats. We have a pet sitter in our building that I trust but she had to go out of town the same weekend as us and so I had to find a different sitter. I would never let just anyone watch our cats and I did a bunch of research before narrowing down our sitter choices since I wouldn’t know the person/​company personally, as I do with the woman in our building.
Some of the things you may want to know about Megan (the founder/​owner) is that she is Red Cross Pet First Aid Certified and Cahill’s Critter Care is a member of Pet Sitter’s International. It says these two things on the website but I also found her under members of Professional Pet Sitters of Minnesota. Now obviously, just because the agency is a member of these groups doesn’t necessarily mean it is good but I think it shows a lot in most cases and I would much prefer to utilize a sitter that can perform Pet First Aid, just in case. I am unsure if other people who work for Cahill’s have this same certification, so if you are looking for this, you may want to ask about it.
Anyway, our whole sitting experience with Cahill’s went smoothly. We were able to schedule the sitting on short notice and once I met Megan when she came into our home for the meet and greet, I could tell that she would take good care of our kitties while we were away. She mentioned numerous small things that eased my mind, such as tying up the curtain strings (which is something I do as well), so that the cats can’t get strangled (this happens!). Anyway, little things like this are important and she really showed her knowledge about cats, I felt. We were only gone for 2 days but it was totally okay with her that I called once each day to check up on the cats too.
When we arrived home our cats had been well taken care of and we had a nice worry free weekend! Not only do I recommend Cahill’s Critter Care (in particular Megan) but also just pet sitting in general — if you’ve never thought about hiring a sitter for your pet friends, you really should give it a try!