Doggy daycare jobs in Surrey, on your terms
Host a small group in Surrey and earn CAD 30 to CAD 55 per day. The city allows 3 animals at an address.
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Local know-how pays off in Surrey
A doggy daycare day runs indoors from November to February. Rain falls on 22.2 January days here, 252.4 mm of it, and the group tracks every millimetre of it through the back door. A towel stack beats boots, because Surrey's daytime high stays above freezing on all but about three days a year. Summer flips it: four July days pass 30C and the group moves to shade.
When demand peaks
Weekday cover fills when Surrey schools reopen January 4, and again after the March 30 restart. Regulars pause across the December 21 to January 1 shutdown and through the March 15 to 25 break, when the house is full anyway. KPU's January 6 to April 28 term holds the rest of the winter.
Know your Surrey pickup areas
Hosts sit in Cloverdale and Fleetwood, where a house has the indoor floor area a small group needs. The owners buying weekday care are in City Centre and Guildford, where Zoning By-law 12000 allows an apartment resident only a telephone-and-records business, so those dogs cannot be covered at home.
Breeds you will meet in Surrey
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
Expect Punjabi in your messages, most of it out of Newton. Across Surrey 122,525 people speak Punjabi most often at home, the city's largest non-official home language, and Newton's population is 58% South Asian.
What a dog daycare job in Surrey actually involves
Surrey lets most businesses run from home, and its excluded list covers automotive services and tow-truck operations, not animal care. The zoning rules for a house or duplex keep a home occupation inside 25% of one floor, with no employee from outside the family and nothing about the business visible from the street.
Drop-off and pick-up
Owners in Surrey drop off on the way to work and collect on the way home, so a fixed window at each end of the day matters more than a long list of rules. A short handover at the door covers food, meds and any quirks.
The day at your place
A morning walk, supervised play, a rest period where the dog can switch off, water down all day and a second walk before pick-up. Two or three photos through the day tell the owner it went well.
Your headcount
Start with one or two dogs you know get along. Two things set your ceiling: the space you have, and the limit Surrey puts on animals at one address, which the regulation note on this page spells out. Count your own dog against it before you agree to a second guest.
Choose your services, set your own rates
Typical Petme rates in Surrey. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Doggy daycare
CAD 30 to CAD 55 per day
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
Overnight boarding
CAD 45 to CAD 75 per night
Run the Surrey numbers. Two daycare regulars four days a week is 8 dog-days; at CAD 43 a day that is CAD 344, and you keep up to 90%. Most of it lands on the work week.
Surrey areas that book the most
Dog daycare in Surrey is booked by City Centre and Guildford apartment households, and the weekday group sits at a host's house in Cloverdale or Fleetwood.
British Columbia licenses neither dog walkers nor pet sitters. The Surrey Animal Responsibility Bylaw, 2017, No. 19105 caps any real property at three dogs over eight weeks. Section 7 licenses every dog over three months, and section 37 confines off-leash to designated areas. 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. The Surrey code caps one address at 3 animals (Surrey Animal Responsibility Bylaw). Your own dogs count.
Built for sitters in Surrey
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.
Protection Plan for eligible vet costs
Owners booking through Petme have the Protection Plan, up to CAD 32,000 for eligible vet costs, subject to its terms.
What Surrey owners look for in a daycare host
Daycare owners are choosing a place their dog will spend most weekdays. They look past the rate.
Your space, honestly described
Fenced yard or not, stairs, other pets in the home, and how many dogs you take at once. A clear description of a Surrey apartment with two walks a day gets more bookings than a vague "lots of space".
Weekday consistency
Owners want the same days every week. If you can hold Monday to Thursday, say so. A host who is open the same days is easier to build a routine around than one with a changing calendar.
How you handle a rough day
What happens if two dogs do not get along, if a dog will not settle, or if it is too hot to be outside. Owners want to hear a plan, not a promise.
How to start earning in Surrey
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 Surrey 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.
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Set your own rate. Protection Plan up to CAD 32,000, cashback that keeps your clients rebooking, and fast payouts to your bank.
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