Man, for my dog to go to an in home boarding facility here it’s 50 euro a day. Luckily she goes and stays with a friend, I pay her in checking her horses while she’s away.
South Central Kentucky, 50.00 a day visit 2x a day 2 elderly tiny dogs (puppy pad trained) and 4 inside cats, 4 barn cats. So only feed and scoop cat boxes.
Chicago suburbs with two cats and a dog. The dog is a little bit “special handling requirements” (doesn’t do well with other dogs) and both cats have some special (but minimal) health requirements (one needs a pill crushed up with wet food 2x a day, the other has an ear gel put in daily). We pay $50/day for someone to stay at the house and manage the pets (and it’s $35/day when the dog isn’t there - as she’s the majority of the time consuming tasks like walking 4x a day). We get a stellar deal because it’s a friend of ours and we have the house set up for her convenience (we’ll buy food based on a grocery list provided by her, leave meals for her, etc). We have a dog walking service that we’ll use occasionally and for 30 minutes it ends up being something like $20. Again, pricy - so ultimately it’s easier for us just to pay for someone we know and trust to stay at the house.
We booked pet / house sitters with Pawshake a few times now and paid anywhere from $35 (new sitter with no reviews yet - who happened to be the best one we had yet) to $60 for overnights (which includes insurance). There was also a neighborhood kid who was willing to do two potty breaks + feeding for $25 / day.
We have two dogs with no special requirements. It’s definitely always been cheaper than boarding them, and they do get to stay in their familiar home and use our yard.
Care for the dogs was always decent as far as we could tell, but one of the sitters completely failed to water our plants for two weeks, so everything was dried to a crisp when we got home :(.
We are in Calgary, Alberta.
These numbers are all over the place! I’ll chime in next month. My neighbor is going to pay me to farm sit for 9 horses who are in stalls 12 hrs/day or so, but I don’t know how much she plans to pay yet. It will be a significant amount of work because she’s one of those horse people who insist on things being done a certain way, aisle swept, etc.
Personally, I have a sharing arrangement with a different neighbor. I pet sit their dog and 2 cats pretty regularly, and she pet sits for me less often, but I have more animals (2 dogs, 4 horses, chickens). When I go away, I leave the horses out 24/7 so she really doesn’t have to do much for them but make sure they have water, hay, and no one is obviously hurt. No money changes hands either way.
Just a tiny bit of advice, find out beforehand how much she intends to pay you. It would be a shame to work so hard and she not pay you what the job is worth. I’ve seen it happen before and it ruined a very close friendship.
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Mango20, if you’re in CT, PM me…
I pay $50 a day for someone to live here while we’re gone - Seattle area. I have 2 dogs, 2 cats (barn cats), and 8 horses (all live in turnouts with shelters/stalls 24/7). But often if someone is housesitting it’s related to me being away at a horseshow with 4-5 of the horses. So the barn duties are usually less than my normal load. With that being said, my usual housesitter still did the job for 50/day when we went on [our only ever] family vacation a few years ago and she had 9 horses and the dogs (the cats don’t really count since they’re barn cats that just need their food topped off once a week or so).
Not in CT. I know she has paid a teen to work at $10/hour while supervised, so I’m assuming it will be more than that, for probably 3 hours of work per day, unsupervised. She does have a regular farm sitter, so I’m assuming I’ll be paid the same. It’s a few weeks away, so I’ll discuss it with her first.
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When I lived in western Canada, I made $50 a day farm-sitting. Involved feeding dogs (they had the run of the farm during the day, so no walks), staying overnight at the house, and doing night check/hay top-up at the barn.
