Get paid to look after dogs in St. Gallen
Board dogs overnight, run a doggy daycare, or cover walks and drop-ins across St. Gallen. Boarding runs CHF 40 to CHF 75 per night, and you keep up to 90% of every booking.
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Local know-how pays off in St. Gallen
St. Gallen 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 St. Gallen areas
The valley is long and narrow, so the catchment runs east to west along the bus and train line rather than in a circle. Bruggen, Winkeln and Gossau sit on one side, Heiligkreuz and Wittenbach on the other, all a short ride from the centre. Rotmonten and St. Georgen climb the slope and feel further than the map suggests. Name the stop nearest your home and say whether a car can pull up outside.
Breeds you will meet in St. Gallen
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.
St. Gallen boarding suits dogs that like weather
St. Gallen sits in a high valley, colder and wetter than the lowland cities, and winter here is a real season rather than a few grey weeks. Owners ask whether you will still walk a dog in snow, because the answer separates one sitter from another. The routes are there: the Drei Weieren above St. Georgen, the Sittertobel gorge on the west side, and the Rosenberg woods behind the Altstadt. University terms and conference travel pull households out of Rotmonten and Tablat for a week at a time, and those are boarding bookings rather than daytime ones. Say what you own in the way of boots and a coat, and mean it, because the dog will be out in it.
Choose your services, set your own rates
Typical Petme rates in St. Gallen. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Dog boarding
CHF 40 to CHF 75 per night
Doggy daycare
CHF 40 to CHF 70 per day
Dog walking
CHF 18 to CHF 35 per 30 to 60 minute walk
Drop-in visits
CHF 18 to CHF 30 per 20 to 30 minute visit
St. Gallen areas that book the most
Petme bookings in St. Gallen come from neighborhoods like Altstadt, Rotmonten, Bruggen, across boarding, daycare, walks, and drop-in visits.
St. Gallen sits in Canton St. Gallen. No specific sitter license in Canton St. Gallen. For small and medium dogs, no sitter permit is generally required.
Built for sitters in St. Gallen
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 CHF 20,000 for eligible vet costs, subject to its terms.
Dog Sitting Jobs in St. Gallen
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Dog sitting jobs near St. Gallen
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Start earning in St. Gallen
Set your own rate. Protection Plan up to CHF 20,000, cashback that keeps your clients rebooking, and fast payouts to your bank.
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