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Help care for our dogs and cats and help with our house in green Asturias, Spain

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Última atividade : 31 out. 2025

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UPDATE - Help needed urgently starting on 20.9.25 for 2 weeks or more. I am doing a trip to the UK to take some dogs and cats who have found homes there. Somebody was due to come and help us but she cancelled 2 days ago.
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We are a British family living in the lovely green north of Spain in Asturias. We have 6 rescued cats, 8 foster cats and we care for 7 village cats. We also have 4 rescued dogs and 1 foster dog. We are looking for somebody to help care for our pets and to help us with work around the house and garden.

We are Michael, Penelope and our son Bentley who is 16.

Our house is walking distance to Villaviciosa (600m) and 9km from a lovely beach called Rodiles. There are good bus links from Villaviciosa to Ribadesella, Llanes, Gijon and Oviedo among others. Asturias is known for mountain trails and surfing. It really is a paradise here.

The people who have enjoyed being here in the past are people who adore animals, they love being surrounded by cats and dogs and receiving all the love and affection that they like to give people. Our house is in the process of being done up so it's a little scruffy and with all of our animals it's hard for there not be some mud and pet hairs in the house so that needs not to be a problem for you.
Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado
Jardinagem
Construção/faça você mesmo
Cuidar de animais
Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras
Ajuda a cuidar da casa
Manutenção geral
Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado
Asturias is green and in places the mountains are only 15km from the beach, it's pretty stunning. We love meeting new people and have had lots of fun with Workawayers in the past. We home educate our son which former visitors have been interested to find out more about. People have also been interested in the way we live - we try to eat healthily, feed our pets healthily. We always have lots of philosophical discussions with visitors if they're up for that!
Ajuda
We need help with any of the below
1) Caring for our pets including walking the dogs, feeding dogs and cats, cleaning litter trays
2) General housework
3) Giving medication to one of our cats (it's easy, he has it with food)
4) Simple gardening
Idiomas
Idiomas
Alemão: Fluente
Inglês: Fluente
Espanhol: Fluente
Francês: Fluente
Italiano: Intermediário
Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
Please note that one person left because she was expecting formal English language tuition. It's hard for me to find time to do this but I'm very very happy to speak to visitors in English whenever they like.
Acomodação
A spare room in our house shared with a very friendly cat
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The city of Gijon is 30 minutes away by bus with museums, shops and a beach, Ribadesella is 40 minutes away, a gorgeous seaside resort, Villaviciosa, our closest town has cafes, nice shops and some nice walks. Rodiles is a beautiful beach 9km away. Oviedo, capital of Asturias, is a 30 minute bus ride away and is a pretty cultural city with museums, opera. Food in Asturias is known as being some of the best in the country. Not far away are the Picos de Europa mountains and there are other beautiful walks nearby.
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- Acesso à internet
- Acesso à internet limitado
- Temos mascotes
- Somos fumantes
- Pode hospedar famílias
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7 fev. 2023

Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (ajescribe)

We first met Alberto in 2018 when he came to do Workaway with us. And he's been back every year since and was with us during the pandemic and we all went through Covid together. He's become like our second son and he's staying with us at the moment and helping out again. Alberto is an old soul, a wonderful person, very kind, very considerate,… read more

(Excelente )

12 jul. 2022

Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Ellis)

I can't recommend Ellis highly enough. It was a last minute Workaway need and Ellis headed stright up here from Madrid and enabled us to go on our trip a week later than planned. Ellis fitted in so well and was great company. Ellis was wonderful with our animals, really caring and kind and patient. Happily Ellis learnt very quickly how to feed and… read more

(Excelente )

10 jun. 2022

Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Isabel)

Sadly we ended up having a very bad experience with Isabel. She's a nice lady and did some lovely things like help two of our dogs who had wounds and she introduced us to a product which really helps to heal animals and people. She also cooked some very nice meals for us and was conscientious in her desire to learn how to care for our animals,… read more which is what we needed her to do.

Unfortunately however it turned out that although Isabel likes animals and was happy to spend time with them and help them her goal in coming to do Workaway with us was to help us in exchange for learning English. She'd said from the start that she wanted to improve her English and we were all very happy to speak to her in English while going about daily tasks and doing activities with her. But when she arrived she really struggled to understand us and ultimately preferred to speak to us in Spanish. I offered to sit down with her and help her with pronunciation and understanding of spoken English. I spent several hours doing this over the 10 days she was here and in car journeys and on dog walks we practised English pronunciation and learnt vocabulary.

Isabel knew that my son and I were due to go away in the second half of June which was one of the main reasons we needed a Workawayer to come. My partner works long hours and has a heavy workload when he gets home and can't look after the animals on his own. The trip we were due to do required a lot of planning and the English tuition that Isabel required, contributed to me being very behind on the planning. 4 days before the trip she asked if I could give her an English tuition session and I explained that I wouldn't have time since I needed to plan the trip.

She said that the deal was that I would teach her English for 14 days in exchange for her looking after our animals for 14 days (this had never been my understanding). She said that she wasn't interested in being in Asturias, nor in free accommodation or food, only in learning English. I explained that that wasn't how Workaway worked, that normally people help out in exchange for accommodation and food and an exchange of life experiences and so on. I explained that most people who come to us do so because of their love of animals and desire to spend time in Asturias. I explained that if I'd known from the start that she expected me to give her private English tuition on a regular basis I would never have been able to agree to it since I just don't have time. I'd anticipated speaking lots of English to her while we went about daily activities and that for many people would have been a very helpful way of improving their spoken English.

In the end she left after 10 days and 4 days before our trip. As a result we don't have anyone to help care for the animals and have had to cancel our trip.

Today on day 10 she'd finally got the hang of caring for the animals and I would have been able to let her do tasks on her own. Until now I've been explaining how to do everything which has been time consuming which is fine and I understand that for some people it takes longer than others, but it means, in effect, that we've had very little help.

In summary this experience wasn't a good one for us. I think our profile clearly shows that we are not an English language teaching service and I think Isabel has really misunderstood the spirit of Workaway. To leave us just when she was able to start helping and knowing that it was going to lead to us cancelling our trip was very upsetting.

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7 fev. 2023

Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (ajescribe)

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12 jul. 2022

Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Ellis)

(Excelente)

10 jun. 2022

Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Isabel)

(Negativo)

3 out. 2018

Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Larissa)

Larissa was just a delight to have here. She was here when things were very busy with lots of foster dogs and I was organising lots of adoptions, she went out of her way to help and support what I was doing. Larissa has a really lovely, gentle nature, she was great with the pets and so considerate and kind towards all of us. She's also great… read more

(Excelente)

2 out. 2018

Deixado pelo Workawayer (Larissa) para o anfitrião

I really enjoyed my time staying with Penelope, Michael, Bentley andtheir lovely dogs and cats for 2,5 weeks this August. They live in a spacious house just right outside the city of Villaviciosa, up the hills, with stunning views and beautiful nature just around the house. My tasks included helping to feed the animals in the mornings, some… read more

(Excelente)

23 fev. 2018

Deixado pelo Workawayer (Madii) para o anfitrião

This was a great first workaway experience for me. Tasks included preparing animal food and feeding them, walking more active dogs on long walks, and taking the older dogs on a shorter walk. I also cleaned around the house and cooked meals. I loved all of the animals unique personalities and having them sleep on my bed. Pepe and Michael are a very… read more

(Muito Bom)

7 dez. 2017

Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Jelle)

We really enjoyed having Jelle stay with us. He fitted in incredibly well, he's very adaptable, didn't mind that our heating system had packed up in a colder than normal November. He did lots to help us in the garden and was great with the pets. He is lots of fun to be with and we enjoyed listening to his music collection. A very interesting guy… read more

(Excelente)

6 dez. 2017

Deixado pelo Workawayer (Jelle) para o anfitrião

I had a really good time with this lovely family in the natural paradise called Asturias.
I really felt like a part of the family, and the animals were lovely.
Michael is full of funny stories and has a full library of interesting books, so don't worry about bringing something to read if you're coming here!
Bentley is an energetic boy who's… read more

(Excelente)

1 set. 2017

Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (Noelia)

Noelia was wonderful, looked after our pets really well, was very very reliable and competent. She also did a great job of helping out with cleaning. She was great company and it was great to meet her. Highly recommended.

(Excelente)

1 set. 2017

Feito pelo anfitrião para o Workawayer (RICHARD)

Richard stayed with us in August 2017 for a couple of weeks. He is a big animal lover and looked after the dogs and cats here with kindness and lots of consideration. He also helped do things in the garden including things I hadn't asked him to do but he noticed they needed doing and volunteered, which was great. He did cleaning in the house too.… read more

(Excelente)

28 ago. 2017

Deixado pelo Workawayer (RICHARD) para o anfitrião

A hugely generous, active and inclusive family living in a spacious home on a hill above a great town called Villaviciosa. Five dogs and eight cats living there with Pepe, Michael and Bentley.

Beach activity, mountain walking and evenings out to Gijon and other local festivals made this a fantastic experience for me and some lovely friends. Pepe,… read more

(Excelente)

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Help care for our dogs and cats and help with our house in green Asturias, Spain

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