Stay in and care for pets across Long Beach

Requests reach you from owners near the Long Beach areas listed on your profile, and you accept or decline each one. There are no assigned shifts, so every booking you take sits at a distance you chose.

You are not hired by a company. In Long Beach owners book you, you decide which requests to take, and payment runs through the app to your bank account instead of a payslip.

You are not locked to a single vertical. Offering both widens the requests that reach you in Long Beach, and because you set each rate yourself you can price the one you prefer more attractively.

This is the page for offering the service, not buying it. Owners looking for house sitting in Long Beach search by address and see who covers their area; sitters come here to set rates and take bookings.

House sitting on Petme in Long Beach runs $48 to $110 per night. You set your own nightly rate, and with sitter cashback you keep up to 90% of every booking.

Every confirmed Petme booking, including house sitting, includes $22,000 in Protection Plan for the pet in your care, at no cost to you or the owner. The same cover applies whether you stay in Belmont Shore or Naples.

Yes. Petme recruits sitters across Long Beach year-round, from Belmont Shore to Naples, and owners send booking requests directly to sitters in their area. There is no vacancy list to wait on: you create a profile, set the areas you cover, and accept the requests you want.

No. Petme sitters must be 18 or over, so under-18s cannot take bookings yet. From 18 you can start without formal experience: you need a smartphone with the Petme app, to pass ID verification, and a profile that describes the pets you have cared for, including your own.

It fits part-time schedules well because you are self-employed: no assigned shifts, no minimum hours, and you set your own rate. Many Long Beach sitters take a few bookings a week around a job or studies and scale up or down as their calendar allows.

You stay in the owner's home and keep their pet's routine: feeding, walks, play, and company overnight, plus basics like mail and plants if asked. Owners book it so their pet stays in familiar surroundings while they travel.

With house sitting you go to the owner's home; with boarding the pet comes to you. House sitting suits pets that do better in their own space, and it is billed per night the same way.

Yes. You review each home and pet, arrange a meet first if you want, and accept or decline. You set your nightly rate and your available dates, whether the home is in Belmont Shore or Naples. No assigned bookings and no minimum nights.

Demand peaks over summer and the winter holidays when residents travel, plus a steady commuter baseline year round, with dog walking and drop-in visits leading in this dense, work-from-office metro. That pattern shapes house sitting bookings in Long Beach across the year. Long Beach has a mild coastal climate with warm, dry summers and a cooler marine layer most mornings.

No formal qualification is required. You need to be 18 or over, have a smartphone with the Petme app, and pass ID verification. Experience helps you win your first house sitting bookings in Long Beach, so it is worth describing the pets you have looked after, including your own, on your profile.

Owners in Long Beach mostly keep Labrador Retriever, French Bulldog, Chihuahua, Pit Bull mix, Goldendoodle. Saying on your profile which of those you have stayed with helps owners choose you, because most are looking for someone already comfortable with their dog's size and energy.