<p>My son is going to talk to someone about house sitting and watching a dog He’s not sure how much to charge per day. He’s a bargain when we watch our neighbors dog but she actually sleeps over so it’s really easy! What have you paid for this service, or what do you think would be reasonable?</p>
<p>Is he required to sleep there? check in on/walk dog once, twice, three times a day? any other duties? Depends also on area you are in.</p>
<p>will tell you that my S has house sat for 2 dogs (one old needing walks, one young needing runs a few times a day). I couldn’t believe it, but he has been paid $200 A DAY!
Owner justified it because boarding the two dogs would be $75 each, and they would have to take and pick up stressed dogs (Bay Area!) and they just felt comfortable having someone in there house. Plus I think they really like my S. Told him I’d cover for him anytime they want to pay me that much! Hope they go away again–soon!</p>
<p>The summer I house sit I was happy to have free rent. I certainly didn’t get paid. We feed our neighbor’s cat for nothing. (A little easier than a dog since it doesn’t require walking, but still…)</p>
<p>My son has made between $40-$50 a day. This was also due to what it would have cost to board the dog.</p>
<p>Here I have a college student who house/dog sits. She loves getting away from home and having my place to herself. My two dogs need moderate care, 4-5 walks, feeding and some petting while sitting on the couch watching tv 
I didnt know what to pay her, asked and she said whatever I would pay to board them. I pay 30.00 a day to board two, so I rounded up with a tip and loaded the refrig with her fave foods. She was so thrilled, so were the dogs and I.</p>
<p>Ds1 is house sitting right now, living there with one dog and is getting $200 week. He takes the dog for a walk before work, walks him when he gets home. Also feeds fish and waters lawn, collects mail and newspapers.</p>
<p>Ds2 made $50/day caring for two dogs and a cat for four days. He slept there. These are tiny dogs that don’t require walks. Also fed fish in a pond. Another gig he gets $40/day for two dogs. He doesn’t have to walk them or sleep there, but they’re crated at night, and he has to get there early, like before 7 a.m., to let them out. That’s asking a lot of a teen in the summer!</p>
<p>Wanted to add that it is a cool deal for a college student to live alone like mathmom mentions, but there are costs associated with it. If ds1 were at home we’d be providing his food, and I’d be doing most of the cooking. Living elsewhere, he’s having to buy his own food, and he can’t come and go as he pleases because he’s responsible for being home with the dog at certain intervals. That’s worth something. And yeah, the dog doesn’t get stressed out and won’t pick up anything at a kennel. I used to think that they were nuts to pay him so much, but after hearing the price of boarding a dog I think it’s a pretty sweet deal for them.</p>
<p>Housesitters here generally charge $150/day for two dogs. That would include walking/playing/feeding whatever number of times is required, and obviously, living in. I have to say that I’m surprised by some of the comments about people leaving their dogs alone overnight. Yikes. I’d never do that, crated or not.</p>
<p>My DD did dog sitting and generally was paid about $45-50 for the overnight portion plus about $10/15 for midday walks if she needed to make a trip back for that. I think the service she worked for paid her a small mileage amount, too.</p>
<p>I know the service charged the customer more as she was a full W2 employee so all those costs plus a service fee were on top of DD’s pay. It was a great college job.</p>
<p>DD watched a neighbor’s four dogs ( three under a year old and one geriatric), two cats, two turtles, and two fish tanks, and was supposed to sleep there. She was paid $50 a day, which was not worth it, but they are nice neighbors. </p>
<p>( after getting no sleep the first night because of one yippy puppy she slept at home)</p>
<p>Wow, I guess the neighbor was getting a real deal when my kids were growing up and would look after her dogs and cats for $5 a day!</p>
<p>My D got $20/day for a job that involved feeding fish twice a day last month. Now she’s watering and taking in the mail for free at another place. She’s just happy not be living at home and commuting 2 hours/day to her summer job.</p>
<p>Wow. We give our housesitters $25/day to stay here and walk our dog and feed the dog and cat. We figure they get to stay in a nice house with a pool and hot tub and not have to be in their parents’ house, lol.</p>
<p>Wowza, I pay the neighbor kid $10 a day to walk the dog 3 times! I’m not telling her about this site. BTW, my kennel only charges $18 a day too. I love where I live!</p>
<p>Funny—my D is house sitting for a month. 6000 sq foot home,enormous pool, fantastic ocean view, Bosendorfer piano, fully stocked fridge and freezer, no pets,access to the bar and wine cellar and the maid is there to make her meals and keep the place clean. They pay her $50 bucks a day. Life is good. I told her to recommend her old mom if she can’t make it next time.</p>
<p>Musicamusica, put me next to housesit that place. </p>
<p>I think it is fair to charge/pay about what it would cost for the kennel. When I had kids watch my dog at our house, I paid just over what the kennel woul have cost.</p>
<p>I 've been asking around in my area (far from the big city). I’m thinking $30 a day would be appropropriate, with a stocked fridge and one dog. My question is about the pool. Sure, I swim alone every day, but I think I would worry if we made it available to the house sitter. Am I a worrywart? (I don’t want to get into waiver signing.)</p>
<p>My kids don’t eat the house food. I don’t think they’ve been told not to, but it feels weird to them.</p>
<p>Just paid $18 a day at our lovely vet. I have NO idea what the dog’s accommodations are like…all the animals have come back alive. My B has spent $100 a day per dog for kenneling. Own TV and so on. Actually, our dog is nicer.
We just paid way too much to have a new HS grad water our two veggie beds. $15 a trip --figured she would make 6 but she made 10. It was too much but a deal is a deal. She offered to take much less if she could use me as a reference but I, of course, said she could use me and paid her the agreed upon amount.</p>
<p>Son took the job for just $40 a day. He’s happy. We had to put down our much loved dog a couple of months ago and this will be a real lift to our son’s spirits living with two labs for a week. They have a pool and they want him to eat whatever is in the fridge, which seems a little weird to me, but son was fine with that. The also have a cat, and our son loves cats as well and he said their cat looks a lot like our cat who died several years ago. The place he’ll watch is just over the hill from where we live so he can come home if he needs to. I think it’s a win-win situation.</p>