A sitter stays at your place.
Your pet sleeps in their own bed, eats in their own kitchen and keeps their own routine. Your house has someone in it. For animals who do not travel well, nothing else comes close.
Free to browse · Meet your sitter before you book · You pay your sitter directly
How house sitting works
The same booking either way: you find each other, you meet, you agree the details between you. Nothing is locked in until both of you say so.
Search sitters near you
Put in your postcode and your dates. You will see who offers house sitting in your area and what they charge a night.
Message and shortlist
This one is about trust more than any other service — someone will have your keys. Ask about their experience, their own commitments that week, and how often they would be out of the house.
Meet at your home
Do the meet and greet where the job is. Walk them round, show them the feeding cupboard, the alarm, the bins, the vet’s number on the fridge.
Hand over the keys
Agree the dates and the price, then leave them the keys and your pet’s profile. Everything they need — food, medication, the routine — is on it.
Offer house sitting and set your rate
Turn it on in your services and set your nightly rate. Be honest in your profile about how much of the day you can actually be there.
Read the request carefully
House sitting is a bigger commitment than the others. Check the dates, how many animals, and whether you can genuinely be at the house as much as the owner expects.
Meet at their home
Go and see it. Ask where things are, what the pet does when it is anxious, and what they want you to do about post, bins and the heating.
Stay, care and get paid
Keep the routine, post the odd moment so they can relax, and leave the place as you found it. The owner pays you directly at your agreed rate.
What house sitting usually includes
Sitters set their own terms, so treat this as the shape of the thing rather than a guarantee. What a particular sitter offers is on their profile.
Your pet stays home
No car journey, no strange smells, no other animals. For a nervous dog or an elderly cat, that alone is worth more than anything else on this page.
A lived-in house
Lights on, curtains moving, bins out. A house with somebody in it looks like a house with somebody in it.
One sitter for several pets
Two dogs and a cat cost you one house sitter, not three sets of visits. Say how many animals you have when you first message.
The practical bits
- Where it happens
- At your home
- Usually charged
- Per night, at a rate the sitter sets and shows on their profile
- Typical reasons
- Holidays, several pets, anxious or elderly animals
- Best suited to
- Pets who are unsettled by new places, households with more than one animal, and anyone who would rather the house was not empty.
How paying works right now
PetDwelling Care does not process payments yet. A sitter’s rate is shown on their profile so you both know what to expect, but the money never passes through us.
You and your sitter settle up directly — cash, bank transfer, whatever the two of you agree. There is no platform fee and no commission, and a sitter keeps everything they charge.
The trade-off is worth knowing before you book: because we do not hold the money, we cannot issue a refund or settle a payment dispute for you. Agree the amount, the dates and what happens if plans change in your messages, where you both have it in writing.
Questions people ask
Will the sitter be there all day?
Almost never, and you should not expect it — sitters have their own lives. Ask directly how long the pet would be alone at a stretch, and agree it before you book. Put it in writing in your messages.
Do I need to leave food and supplies?
Yes. Leave enough for the whole stay plus a little spare, and say on your pet’s profile what you feed and how much. Agree in advance who buys more if it runs out.
What about my keys?
Hand them over in person at the meet and greet or on the day, and get them back in person. Do not leave keys in a lockbox for someone you have not met.
Can they have visitors?
That is between the two of you, and it is much better asked than assumed. Say what you are comfortable with before the booking rather than afterwards.
Ready when you are
Search sitters near you, or set up a profile and start offering house sitting in your own neighbourhood.
