# About us

## Get to know BuddyGuard

Find out more about us - how we started, what are our values and why we do what we do

### Meet **Winner**    The mastermind behind **BuddyGuard’s creation**

Motivated by the need to ensure proper care for Winner while we traveled, in 2020, we searched for alternatives to pet hotels. A quick look showed us that such a service did not yet exist in Bulgaria.

Winner was adamant that this had to change. He demanded we find him a sitter who would walk him and spoil him with treats... So, following our boss’s orders, we said, “Why not?”

We embraced his idea, and thus, in the summer of 2020, BuddyGuard was founded in Sofia, becoming the first professional pet-sitting company in Bulgaria!

### The **BuddyGuard** Platform

Over the years, we’ve gained experience caring for more than 1,500 pets and their owners! We’ve enjoyed countless wet noses, wagging tails, and purring faces. To help even more people, we decided to create a platform enabling pet owners across the country to access the services of trained and caring sitters.

Our sitters are people who choose to spend their free time in the company of the creatures they love most — animals!

Thank you for reading this, and we are thrilled to welcome you to the growing BuddyGuard family!

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>  This is how Kristina Vodenicharova and Kostadin Mihaylov began developing BuddyGuard together. The two invested around 10,000 BGN in purchasing vehicles for their pet sitters, which are still in use today, printing brochures, renting a small office in the Darvenitsa neighborhood of Sofia, and rolling up their sleeves to turn BuddyGuard into a major platform.

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>  Our concerns were about whether we could maintain the standard we already had and the reputation we built with many happy clients. That’s why our idea is to provide training to every sitter, ensuring that every pet owner feels confident and trusts us. Our goal is for this service to expand nationwide, and that would be impossible without owners feeling secure in us.

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>  BuddyGuard has other competitive advantages. Their policy includes insurance of up to 30,000 BGN, which covers not only the pet but also the owner’s property from the moment the request is made. ‘Trust, security, and transparency are what we aim for,’ say Vodenicharova and Mihaylov.

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