Get paid to look after dogs in Lausanne
Board dogs overnight, run a doggy daycare, or cover walks and drop-ins across Lausanne. Boarding runs CHF 45 to CHF 85 per night, and you keep up to 90% of every booking.
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Local know-how pays off in Lausanne
Lausanne owners book overnight boarding and daytime daycare around work trips and holidays. Sitters who can host from a home or apartment near a park stay busy through the year.
When demand peaks
Boarding fills up around school holidays and business-travel periods, while daycare runs steadily through the working week.
Know your Lausanne areas
Ouchy, Pully and Lutry read as one continuous lakefront to an owner, so a sitter anywhere along it is in range. Uphill it splits: Chailly, Epalinges and Le Mont feel far to someone on foot and close to someone with a car. Renens, Prilly and Malley run on the train and the metro and supply a lot of the student and EPFL households. Name the stop by your door and say whether you will collect.
Breeds you will meet in Lausanne
Owners here mostly keep Bernese Mountain Dogs, Labradors, Border Collies, French Bulldogs. 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
Lausanne mixes francophone locals with EPFL and IOC international staff. Sitters comfortable in both French and English fill their schedules faster.
Lausanne is vertical, and a boarded dog notices
Lausanne is built on a slope, and that decides more about boarding here than any other local fact. A flat in Chailly or Epalinges sits a long climb above the water, while Ouchy and Sous-Gare are level and busy. Owners will ask how you get the dog out and how steep the last two hundred metres are, and an honest answer beats a vague one. The m2 metro makes the climb for you, which is why sitters on that line pick up requests from the whole city. For walks, the Bois de Sauvabelin above the centre and the lakeside path from Ouchy toward Pully and Lutry cover almost everything, giving you shade or flat ground depending on the dog you are hosting.
Choose your services, set your own rates
Typical Petme rates in Lausanne. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Dog boarding
CHF 45 to CHF 85 per night
Doggy daycare
CHF 50 to CHF 80 per day
Dog walking
CHF 20 to CHF 40 per 30 to 60 minute walk
Drop-in visits
CHF 20 to CHF 35 per 20 to 30 minute visit
Lausanne areas that book the most
Petme bookings in Lausanne come from neighborhoods like Ouchy, Chailly, Pully, across boarding, daycare, walks, and drop-in visits.
Lausanne sits in Canton Vaud. Canton Vaud requires dog owners to complete a training course for certain breeds. No specific sitter license for occasional care. For small and medium dogs, no sitter permit is generally required.
Built for sitters in Lausanne
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
CHF 20,000 in Protection Plan comes with every confirmed booking, so you are never on the hook alone if something goes wrong.
Dog Sitting Jobs in Lausanne
What new sitters ask before signing up on Petme in Lausanne.
How much can I earn dog sitting in Lausanne?
Dog boarding on Petme in Lausanne runs CHF 45 to CHF 85 per night, with daycare and walks adding daytime income. You set your own rate per service, and you keep up to 90% of every booking.
What protection do I get on dog sitting bookings?
Every confirmed Petme booking, including boarding and daycare, includes CHF 20,000 in Protection Plan for the dog in your care, at no cost to you or the owner. The same cover applies across Ouchy and Chailly.
Can I board dogs in an apartment in Lausanne?
Yes. You set your own house rules: the dog sizes you accept, how many dogs at once, and whether your home suits high-energy breeds. Many Lausanne sitters board small and medium dogs from a flat near a park in Ouchy or Chailly.
What is the difference between dog boarding and doggy daycare?
Boarding is overnight, billed per night, while the owner travels. Daycare is daytime only, billed per day, for owners at work. You can offer either or both and set a separate rate for each.
Do I choose which dogs and bookings I accept in Lausanne?
Yes. You review each request, arrange a meet first if you want, and accept or decline. No assigned bookings and no minimum hours, whether the owner is in Ouchy or Chailly. You set your rates and availability per service.
When does overnight dog sitting peak in Lausanne?
Around the weeks owners are away: the summer holidays, Christmas and New Year, and the ski season and February sports week. Lausanne owners book those dates well ahead, so opening your calendar for them early is what fills a new host's first season. Winter stays mean more indoor time and grittier walks, so agree the walk and drying routine at the meet and greet.
Do Lausanne owners message in French or English?
French first, since the canton is francophone. The universities, EPFL and the sports federations around Ouchy bring a large English-speaking population, and those owners look specifically for a sitter who will run a booking in English. Put both on your profile, and send the daily photo updates in whichever language the owner writes to you in.
Is dog boarding a practical part time income in Lausanne?
It suits a part-time schedule because the work is measured in nights rather than hours. A boarding week over the school holidays plus a few weekends can be the bulk of a month. You set the nightly rate for your own home, decide how many dogs you host at a time, and turn down the dates that clash.
Start earning in Lausanne
Set your own rate. CHF 20,000 Protection Plan on every booking, cashback that keeps your clients rebooking, and fast payouts to your bank.
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