How much for watching our dog?

[solobiker]

Thanks for your advice. As you can tell I was trying to multi-task in my above post..what the heck is "agrre" supposed to be??? Agree, and I hope I don't have a 13# bread....breed would be better. Whooops...I was on the phone with my Mom at that time.

[Aggie_Ama]

We pay $16/dog to be boarded at the vet. This is a 8 lb miniature schanuzer and a 18 lb miniature schnauzer. We also pay an extra $2/day to have the bigger one get her thyroid supplement. And this is for sharing a cage since they cannot stand to be separated. My vet doesn't charge based on weight which is bad for me, good for my mom with a Rottweiler. Mostly they stay with my parents, on a long trip we usually give them some money to have a night out.

[makbike]

I pay $15/dog/day at the kennel I use. I hire the young girl across the street (11years old) to take care of my cats, rabbit and chinchilla. I gave her $7.50/day. Pet sitters in this area charge $20 per day and add on extra fees for extra services.

[mupedalpusher]

My son is housesitting for $15 per day and food! For a 20 year old that's a good deal, he makes extra money in addition to his day job, plus the stock the fridge for him so he doesn't buy food all week. He does have other chores, they fill 3 hummingbird feeders twice a day, several plants to take care of and a cat. But like he said, it's easy money and great FOOD!

[Dogmama]

I pay $22/one hour visit. If they're watching Zack, I want them to stay because he doesn't have a doggie door. That is $125 per 18-24 hour visit. For our vacation in August the pet sitter will cost the same as our plane tickets.

BUT - I don't worry about them and that is priceless.

[xeney]

Wow. We have three large dogs. We are going on vacation soon, and for a week away it is going to cost us over $500 to board them. That is partly because the kennel has odd ours so they will wind up being there for ten days -- every kennel we've used has had this issue, it seems, they open late, are closed on some weird day in the middle of the week, etc., so the dogs' vacation is always longer than ours.

When we used to have a pet sitter stay here to watch the dogs and our two cats, we paid her $45 a day, the same that our old kennel used to charge (before they raised their rates to about $90 a day for the three dogs). We aren't using her anymore because last time she did not feed our cats.

Boarding the animals always costs us more than whatever we pay for our own hotel. I will never have three dogs again.

(When our neighbors watch the cats, they don't charge. We all trade off cat watching. Dogs are more labor intensive, though.)

[tulip]

I was toying with the idea of perhaps eventually maybe possibly getting a dog from the pound when I move into my house. This thread is a good one, because I do like to travel. I think I'll wait until my travel bug subsides, if that ever happens. Plus, the last time I had a dog, you just let it do its business and kept moving. I'm really glad dogowners cleanup after their dogs, but I really don't know if I'd be up to that task. Makes me appreciate paying dogwalkers $$ for doing it instead.

The neighbor has a nice cat who seems to like to hang out on the porch. I've only been to the house a few times for the inspection, etc., but that cat has come to visit almost every time. I think I'll borrow it.