Anyone on here use a dog sitter, for example someone that comes stays at your house to watch Fido while you are away? If so, what do you pay per animal and what do you expect or require from the sitter?
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Dog Sitting
- Thread starter DirtySouth
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The kids use my wife.
My Dogs have a speech impediment, you tell them to sit, you're have a big pile in the middle of the floor
I did pet sitting for a few years. $15-20 per visit(Typically around 30 mins), $75 for Overnights.
I used to do it for free for friends but I got too attached to the dogs. Dogs make better friends than people.
Yeah, loosing clients was the worst part, especially when it happened suddenly without being able to say good bye to the fur babies. Walking a dog 5 days a week for over a year, and then "puff", just gone.
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I just did a Dog sitting for a buddie he took his family to Florida, 2 weeks ago, his dog had allot of issues but he told me ahead of time, so I made my 2nd floor into a Dog free area, I gated anything that could hurt the dog, please don't make the mistake that I did a took my dog to a day care center, my dog came out of there with diarrhea and had to be rushed to the emergency room. If you live in or by a subdivision there are people there that will come to your house and walk and feed your dog.
We pay $50/day for house sit and watch three dogs. I feel better knowing that someone I know is at the house vs sending the dogs to the doggie daycare. They feed them twice a day, and let them out a couple times per day.
We use the friend of my younger daughter - she stays at our house - we have a large fenced yard so no walking involved - pay is $250 per week for 2 dogs.
