Swansea pet sitting work: campus streets on one side, Gower on the other
Swansea runs from a university campus set in a park to the edge of the Gower peninsula in a short drive. A sitter here can keep short weekday visits in the streets above the bay and still take a week of boarding out towards Mumbles. Set your own rates and keep up to 90% of every booking.
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Local know-how pays off in Swansea
Swansea has a wet maritime climate with rain spread across the year, frosty spells in winter, and short winter days that leave a narrow window of daylight. Walkers who carry a raincoat and a towel, plan sheltered routes on the wettest days, and hold their slots through the drizzle keep the regulars that fair-weather walkers lose.
When demand peaks
Demand peaks over the summer holidays and across Christmas and New Year, with a second wave on the February, May and October half-terms and the bank-holiday weekends. Boarding and house sitting lead when owners travel; walking, daycare and drop-in visits carry the commuting week.
Know your Swansea areas
Most bookings cluster Mumbles to Uplands. Owners look for sitters who know the area and can reach them without a long trip.
Breeds you will meet in Swansea
Owners here mostly keep Labrador Retriever, Cocker Spaniel, French Bulldog, Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Knowing how those breeds behave, and saying so on your profile, is what turns a first booking into a repeat client.
Two sources of work, one diary
Sketty and Uplands sit between the Singleton Park campus and the city centre, flats and terraces with doors close together, which suits a round of short weekday visits. Mumbles and Killay lie further west with houses and gardens, so boarding and daycare are easier there, and Mumbles is where a walk runs onto the coast path rather than round a park. Mayhill and Townhill are the steep hillside streets above the bay, where a walk is a climb and a short round covers a lot of doors. Offering the lot means you can keep visits going in term time and still take a full week of boarding once term ends.
Choose your services, set your own rates
Typical Petme rates in Swansea. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Dog walking
£10 to £16 per 30 to 60 minute walk
Drop-in visits
£10 to £16 per 20 to 30 minute visit
Doggy daycare
£16 to £28 per day
Dog boarding
£22 to £36 per night
House sitting
£28 to £45 per night
Built for sitters in Swansea
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
£20,000 in Protection Plan comes with every confirmed booking, so you are never on the hook alone if something goes wrong.
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Set your own rate. £20,000 Protection Plan on every booking, cashback that keeps your clients rebooking, and fast payouts to your bank.
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