Get paid to look after dogs in Zurich
Board dogs overnight, run a doggy daycare, or cover walks and drop-ins across Zurich. Boarding runs CHF 55 to CHF 95 per night, and you keep up to 90% of every booking.
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Local know-how pays off in Zurich
Zurich 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 Zurich areas
Handovers decide who gets booked. An owner in Oerlikon or Schwamendingen will take the S-Bahn across town with a dog on a lead without thinking about it, while an owner in Witikon with a car and a crate is working to a different map. Name the tram or S-Bahn stop nearest your door and the areas you will collect from, and requests stop arriving from the wrong side of the lake.
Breeds you will meet in Zurich
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.
What an overnight stay looks like in a Zurich flat
Zurich housing is mostly flats, so the dogs that get boarded here usually belong to owners with nobody upstairs to ask. Households in Seefeld, Enge and Hottingen hand the dog over the evening before an early flight and collect on a Sunday. What they ask about first is your space and your routine: how many stairs, whether there is a lift, where the dog sleeps, and where you go at seven in the morning. If you live near the Zürichberg woods, the Allmend Brunau or the Limmat path through Wipkingen, put it in writing, because a boarded dog needs two or three real walks a day and the owner wants to picture them. The February ski week and the summer break are when the requests stack up.
Choose your services, set your own rates
Typical Petme rates in Zurich. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Dog boarding
CHF 55 to CHF 95 per night
Doggy daycare
CHF 60 to CHF 90 per day
Dog walking
CHF 25 to CHF 45 per 30 to 60 minute walk
Drop-in visits
CHF 25 to CHF 40 per 20 to 30 minute visit
Zurich areas that book the most
Petme bookings in Zurich come from neighborhoods like Seefeld, Enge, Wipkingen, across boarding, daycare, walks, and drop-in visits.
Zurich sits in Canton Zurich. SKN (Sachkundenachweis) required for walking large-breed dogs in Canton Zurich. For small and medium dogs, no sitter permit is generally required.
Built for sitters in Zurich
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 Zurich
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Dog sitting jobs near Zurich
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Start earning in Zurich
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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