Pet Sitter Job in Santa Cruz, New Mexico

We live about 1/2 hour north of Santa Fe, NM in a beautiful "artist's" home. My husband is having hip replacement surgery in Los Angeles over the holidays and we'll be in LA for 16 days beginning Thursday, December 22nd and returning Saturday afternoon, January 7th. We would, of course :) like a loving, responsible, VEGETARIAN or vegan person (yes, the pets eat meat) or couple to stay in our home while we're in Los Angeles. We have 2 cats (one courageous and one a scaredy cat), plus the neighbor's 2 dogs (a chihuahua and a big mutt) have adopted us, as has the neighbor's cat -- so all together 5 pets (more or less -- if you're not here regularly during the day, the dogs will go back to the neighbor's house). Across our dirt driveway are 24 grazing sheep in the apple orchard (all brown now as it's winter -- but if it snows it's all spectacular!)