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Turn free hours around Athens into steady pet care income. Set your own rates and keep up to 90% of every booking.
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Local know-how pays off in Athens
Athens has a humid subtropical climate with long, hot, sticky summers and short, mild winters. From June through September walkers head out early or after sunset to keep dogs off hot pavement and cut the risk of heat stress, and they watch flat-faced breeds like French Bulldogs closely on humid afternoons.
When demand peaks
Demand spikes on UGA football gamedays in the fall and around move-in and finals, when students and faculty need someone to cover dogs during long days on campus. Boarding leads over the winter holidays and spring break, while dog walking stays steady all year for desk-bound professionals near downtown.
Know your Athens areas
Most bookings cluster Five Points to Eastside. Owners look for sitters who know the area and can reach them without a long trip.
Breeds you will meet in Athens
Owners here mostly keep Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever, German Shepherd, French Bulldog. Knowing how those breeds behave, and saying so on your profile, is what turns a first booking into a repeat client.
Choose your services, set your own rates
Typical Petme rates in Athens. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Dog walking
$16 to $26 per 30 to 60 minute walk
Drop-in visits
$18 to $28 per 20 to 30 minute visit
House sitting
$32 to $50 per night
Athens areas that book the most
Petme bookings in Athens come from neighborhoods like Downtown Athens, Five Points, Boulevard, across walks, drop-in visits and house sitting.
Athens puts boarding inside its kennel definition, and 9-15-16 keeps a kennel out of a residential home occupation. You work at the owner's home in Athens: walks, drop-ins, and staying over. Athens also caps animals at one address at 2, and your own pets count toward it. Georgia does not require a state pet-sitter or dog-walker license. Working in Athens means getting an Athens-Clarke County Occupation Tax Certificate, which covers home-based businesses too. County code 4-1-2 requires a dog to be on a leash any time it is off the owner's property, so walkers keep dogs leashed on the greenway and in every park except the off-leash areas at Memorial Park and Sandy Creek. Pet-care income is self-employment income, reported on Schedule C against the platform's 1099.
Built for sitters in Athens
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
$22,000 in Protection Plan comes with every confirmed booking, so you are never on the hook alone if something goes wrong.
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Start earning in Athens
Set your own rate. $22,000 Protection Plan on every booking, cashback that keeps your clients rebooking, and fast payouts to your bank.
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