Earn walking dogs around Burnaby
Start with a few walks around Metrotown and Brentwood and grow as your calendar fills. Walks in Burnaby run CAD 20 to CAD 35 per 30 to 60 minute walk, and you keep up to 90% of every booking.
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Local know-how pays off in Burnaby
Burnaby walking is a rain job, not an ice job. Vancouver International's 1991-2020 normals record 162.1 mm of rain in January and no nights below -20C. Snow totals 36.6 cm a year and lies 1 cm deep on four January days. July highs reach 22.4C and rain falls on six days, so midday walks shift to early morning.
When demand peaks
SFU's term on Burnaby Mountain runs September 9 to December 7, then January 5 to April 12, and midday walks up there track those weeks. Reading break, February 16 to 21, thins them out. Requests climb again when Burnaby schools reopen January 4 and parents are back on the SkyTrain.
Know your Burnaby routes
Metrotown and Brentwood are town centres on the SkyTrain, so one walking route covers several dogs without moving the car. Capitol Hill is the other kind of work, a 203 m hill above Hastings Street where one walk is one dog and the driving eats the hour.
Breeds you will meet in Burnaby
Owners here mostly keep Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever, German Shepherd, French Bulldog. Knowing how those breeds behave, and saying so on your profile, is what turns a first booking into a repeat client.
Bilingual owners book faster
Some owners will message you in Mandarin or Cantonese. Burnaby counts 25,565 residents who speak Mandarin most often at home and 19,090 who speak Cantonese, and 16,060 who can hold a conversation in neither English nor French. A saved Chinese greeting in your first message saves a round trip.
What a dog walking job in Burnaby actually involves
Most Burnaby routes are rain routes, so a towel by the door beats a salt wipe. Dogs stay on a leash of 2 m or less on every street and in every park except the designated off-leash areas, which include Confederation Park and Barnet Marine Park. Central Park and the Burnaby Lake trails carry a lot of the walking.
Before the first walk
You meet the owner and the dog, agree the pickup time and the route, and check the harness, the leash and whether the dog pulls or reacts to other dogs. In Burnaby that meet-and-greet is where most repeat clients are won.
During the walk
Leash on, waste bagged, water offered on longer loops, and a check of the pavement before you head out on a hot afternoon. Owners want to know the dog was walked, not driven around a parking lot for twenty minutes.
After the walk
Paws wiped, water topped up, the dog settled inside and the door locked as you found it. Then a photo and a line about how it went. That message is what turns one booking into a standing weekly slot.
Choose your services, set your own rates
Typical Petme rates in Burnaby. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Dog walking
CAD 20 to CAD 35 per 30 to 60 minute walk
Drop-in visits
CAD 20 to CAD 35 per 20 to 30 minute visit
Doggy daycare
CAD 30 to CAD 55 per day
Dog boarding
CAD 45 to CAD 75 per night
House sitting
CAD 45 to CAD 75 per night
Here is the arithmetic for Burnaby: three clients, four walks each a week, CAD 28 a walk. That is 12 walks and CAD 336 in a week, from two short windows a day. You keep up to 90% of it.
Burnaby areas that book the most
Dog walking bookings in Burnaby come from the Metrotown and Brentwood towers, where apartments make up 53,550 of the city's 101,140 occupied dwellings.
British Columbia licenses neither dog walkers nor pet sitters. Burnaby's Animal Control Bylaw 1991 licenses every dog over four months (s.3) and caps a leash at 2 m in public (s.5). A dwelling unit holds three dogs (s.6), and a home business needs a City licence. Pet-care income is self-employment income, reported on form T2125 with your T1 return. GST/HST registration is required once taxable revenue passes the CAD 30,000 small-supplier threshold in four consecutive quarters.
Built for sitters in Burnaby
Keep up to 90%
You set your rate. Petme keeps a low service fee, and you keep up to 90% of every booking.
Full schedule control
No assigned shifts and no minimum hours. Accept or decline each request and pause your profile whenever you need to.
Protected on every booking
CAD 32,000 in Protection Plan comes with every confirmed booking, so you are never on the hook alone if something goes wrong.
What Burnaby owners look for in a walker
Owners read profiles the way they read reviews of a daycare. Four things get you the first booking.
Named neighborhoods
A profile that says which Burnaby neighborhoods you cover beats one that says "anywhere". Owners search for someone close, and a short travel time is what makes a recurring walk work.
A regular slot
Owners want the same walker at the same time each day. Say which weekday windows you can hold, and you will be chosen over a walker with a wider but vaguer calendar.
Dog experience, stated
Which breeds you have walked, whether you are fine with a strong puller or a reactive dog, and what you do when one dog will not walk. Specifics win. So does a photo of you with a dog.
How to start earning in Burnaby
1. Download Petme
Download the Petme app from the App Store or Google Play.
2. Build your profile
Add photos, a short bio, and the Burnaby neighborhoods you cover.
3. Verify your ID
Complete identity verification so owners can trust your profile before they book.
4. Set your rates and accept bookings
Set your own rates per service, choose your schedule, and accept the bookings you want.
Dog walking jobs in Burnaby
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Start earning in Burnaby
Set your own rate. CAD 32,000 Protection Plan on every booking, cashback that keeps your clients rebooking, and fast payouts to your bank.