Doggy Daycare Jobs in Basel

Turn your days at home in Basel into daycare income

Set your headcount, your hours and your rate for daycare in Basel. Doggy daycare in Basel runs CHF 50 to CHF 80 per day, and you keep up to 90% of every booking.

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CHF 50 to CHF 80
per day of daycare in Basel
Up to 90%
of every booking kept by the sitter
CHF 20,000
Protection Plan for eligible vet costs
4.9 / 5
average sitter rating on Petme
A local edge

Local know-how pays off in Basel

Basel 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 Basel pickup areas

The heaviest daycare demand sits in the flat-dense quarters of Kleinbasel, St. Johann, Gundeldingen and Iselin, with a second cluster out in Riehen, Binningen and Allschwil. Say which tram or bus line you live near. In Basel that one detail decides more bookings than the size of your garden.

Breeds you will meet in Basel

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.

Daycare in Basel

Daycare across the Rhine, on tram time

Basel is compact and almost everyone moves by tram, which shapes how daycare gets booked. Owners in Gundeldingen, Iselin and St. Johann want a host within a few stops of their line, because the drop-off happens on the way to work and the pick-up on the way home. A lot of those working days belong to the pharma and research sites, and they are long. Hosting here usually means flat living, so the rhythm is a morning walk by the Rhine, a longer midday round in the Lange Erlen or the Allschwiler Wald, then rest. Hosts in Riehen, Binningen and Allschwil pick up families from the green edge of the city, and trade-fair weeks add short-notice days to an otherwise regular schedule.

Rates in Basel

Choose your services, set your own rates

Typical Petme rates in Basel. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.

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

Overnight boarding

CHF 45 to CHF 85 per night

Where demand is strongest

Basel areas that book the most

Petme daycare bookings in Basel come from neighborhoods like Grossbasel, Kleinbasel, St. Johann, where commuting owners book recurring weekday days and add boarding around business travel.

Basel sits in Canton Basel-Stadt. Canton Basel-Stadt requires a dog license (Hundebewilligung) for all dog owners. No specific sitter license required for occasional pet care. For small and medium dogs, no sitter permit is generally required.

GrossbaselKleinbaselSt. JohannGundeldingenBruderholzRiehenBirsfeldenAllschwilBinningenBottmingenBachlettenIselin
Why Petme

Built for sitters in Basel

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.

Common questions

Doggy Daycare Jobs in Basel

What new sitters ask before signing up on Petme in Basel.

How much do doggy daycare hosts earn per day in Basel?
Doggy daycare on Petme in Basel runs CHF 50 to CHF 80 per day. You set your own day rate and headcount, and you keep up to 90% of every booking.
What protection comes with daycare bookings?
The Petme Protection Plan offers up to CHF 20,000 for eligible vet costs for the dog in your care, subject to its terms. The same terms apply across Grossbasel and Kleinbasel.
What does a doggy daycare day involve?
Owners drop off in the morning and pick up after work. You provide a safe space, supervised play, water, rest time, and photo updates through the day. Most Basel hosts take a small group they can manage comfortably.
Do I need a yard or a commercial space for daycare in Basel?
No. Many Petme hosts run daycare from a home or an apartment with regular walk breaks, from Grossbasel to Kleinbasel. You set how many dogs you accept at once and whether your space suits high-energy or large breeds.
Can I set my own daycare schedule and headcount in Basel?
Yes. You choose your days, your hours, and how many dogs you host at a time, and you accept or decline each request. No assigned shifts and no minimum hours, whether owners come from Grossbasel or Kleinbasel.
What does a winter daycare day look like in Basel?
Mostly indoors, in shorter bursts. A Basel winter day runs on indoor play and rest with brief outdoor breaks inside the daylight window, towels by the door, and grit wiped off paws after every trip out. Daycare follows the working week, so it holds steady all year and picks back up each January once commuters are back at their desks.
Can I take daycare bookings in Basel part-time?
Yes. You open only the weekdays you want and close the rest, so the work sits alongside a part-time contract, a shift pattern or studies. Every request is yours to accept or decline, and you set the day rate and the number of dogs you take at once. Nothing is assigned to you and there are no minimum hours.
Which language do Basel owners write in?
Mostly German, with Swiss German spoken at the door, though Basel has a large international workforce and plenty of owners message in English. Put your languages on your profile. Households from the nearby German and French communes often write in a second language too, so saying so widens who contacts you.
Am I employed by Petme if I host daycare in Basel?
No. You work for yourself and each booking is an arrangement between you and the owner, which is why you set the rate, the days and the headcount. If you are living in Basel as a foreign resident or a student, ask your cantonal authority what independent side income your situation allows before you start taking dogs.
Nearby cities

Doggy daycare jobs near Basel

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