I board two dogs when I travel. It’s usually about $1,000 a week.

$70 is the overnight rate at The Dog Stay in downtown Silver Spring.

For those of you using non residential boarding facilities please ask if they have staff on site 24/7. If they don’t, don’t use them.

I pay a neighbor $50 per day/night. I do the same for them.

Yes, that's roughly the going rate, OP. Dog boarding is never cheap. If you shop around you might get the nightly rate down to $50. There's Dogtopia and a bunch of other professional boarding companies out there.

When Rover launched 10years ago they used their cartel power to raise amateur dogsitting to $35/day standard. Add 10 years of ratcheting and inflation.

This is what we pay our Rover sitter who only boards one dog at a time in their home. There are a few options that are cheaper and I don't like them (multiple dogs, super young boarders who seem inexperienced, etc) and a few more expensive for seemingly no reason. I'd say it is squarely average.

I pay $120/night for my dog sitter (our dog stays at her house) but I also 100% trust her and do not worry at all when my dog is with her.

A friend of mine does this. She retired at a young 60 and boards a max of 3 dogs in her home/huge backyard. She is booked 100% of the time. So, she earns $300 per day cash. Only friends/friends of.

She goes to yoga class daily after the morning walk. This is the retirement I look forward to.

This is what I want to do when I retire. I love dogs and it’s good money.

Anonymous wrote:My dog walker lives in my house with my two dogs. He charges $100 per night. He sends updates daily. He runs his own dog walking/sitting business.

Sounds great - he's probably gone most of the day working, maybe they get breakfast, midday break, and then the evening with sitter?

Sounds right to me - exurbs.

this is crazy, I can't believe all of the responses above saying it's normal. Maybe for a 50lb+ dog on Christmas when they get outings/enrichment. My gosh

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Anonymous wrote:I am close in DMV. I was quoted double that from multiple sources. I found a house/dog sitter.

That would be almost $1000/ week? I should be a dog sitter geez.

Sure if you can live on $50k a year.

That is what we pay for a cage free boarding.

The lady is a dog trainer and only boards her clients’ dogs. Our baby sleeps in a crate in her bedroom. They have pack walks every morning. She has a fenced dog obstacle course where the dogs run, play and roam freely when the weather permits. She caps the boarders to 6 at max (she has 2 dogs herself). My baby never comes back smelling like the kennel.

It is pricy but well worth it for us.