Pet sitting and dog walking in Allen since 2003

Looking for a Pet Sitter in Allen?

Allen is one of those North Texas cities that perfectly balances suburban family living with easy access to everything the metroplex has to offer. It’s a community where people know their neighbors, where dogs get walked on tree-lined streets, and where pet owners care deeply about who comes into their home.

DFW Pet Sitting has been caring for Allen pets since 2003. Every pet sitter and dog walker we assign in Allen is a W-2 employee of our company, not an independent contractor or gig worker. They’re background-checked, trained, insured, and bonded. And they live right here in the Allen area, usually within 5 miles of your front door.

We are not an app and not a marketplace. The sitter you meet before the first paid visit is the sitter who returns, every time. Allen is compact enough that 75002 and 75013 sit inside one working area, so keeping the same person on your house is the default rather than a favor.

Visits go into our scheduling software and the phones are answered 6:00am–11:00pm Central. If your sitter cannot make a visit, a manager reassigns it the same day from more than 250 employees on the payroll — Collin County being one of our better-staffed areas.

Our Allen Pet Sitting & Dog Walking Services

Vacation & Travel Pet Sitting — Allen is compact enough that a sitter is minutes away whether you are gone four days or fourteen. She works from the written routine you hand over at the consultation: meal times, doses, leash walks, and the play your dog expects before dinner. Dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, fish and small caged animals all stay in the house, so nothing has to be boarded around your travel dates.

Daily Dog Walking — Perfect for Allen families with puppies, senior dogs, or busy work schedules. Your dog walker commits to a consistent weekly schedule — same person, same times. We’re not “Uber for dog walkers.” If you live near Twin Creeks, Montgomery Farm, or the neighborhoods off Exchange Parkway, your walker is nearby.

Cat Sitting — Cats hate leaving home, and they don’t need to. Litter, portioned feeding, play, and medication in the house. See how a 25-minute Allen cat visit works.

Short-notice and holiday coverage — because the people who work Allen also live in and around it, we can frequently pick up a booking at short notice. The two dates that go first every year are Thanksgiving and Christmas. If yours are already set, it is worth calling well ahead.

House Sitting & Home Checks — Mail and porch packages, lights, bins, plants, and a walk-through. Most Allen clients add this onto pet visits rather than booking it alone.

What Sets Us Apart from Apps Like Rover

Unlike apps like Rover or Wag where you’re hiring a stranger with a profile, our Allen pet sitters are professionally managed W-2 employees of a company that has sat pets here since 2003. Side by side:

	Rover / Wag	DFW Pet Sitting
Who enters your home	A different contractor each time you book	One assigned sitter — the same person, every visit
Who they work for	Independent gig contractor	W-2 employee: background-checked, trained, supervised
If something goes wrong	Platform “guarantee” with exclusions	Commercial liability insurance and bonding
If your sitter cancels	You re-book and hope	Manager activates backup from 250+ DFW staff
Oversight	Nothing between you and the sitter	Every visit tracked by a manager in real time
Before your first visit	Optional chat, often skipped	Free in-person meet-and-greet, always

Cat Sitting in Allen

75002 and 75013 between them cover all of Allen, and a cat in either one is happier on her own rug than in a carrier going anywhere. The 25 minutes go to fresh water, the amount of food you actually give her, a scooped box, a little play, and a careful look at how she is holding up. A photo follows the visit.

Sitters handle pills, insulin, sub-q fluids, eye drops, and inhalers. If a cat hides in a Twin Creeks or Montgomery Farm house they have never fully mapped, they sit on the floor and wait. They do not leave without seeing the cat.

A healthy adult cat needs at least one visit a day, and kittens, seniors and cats on medication need two. We will not leave a mountain of food and a single box to cover a stretch of days; that is the arrangement which goes wrong quietly and expensively.

More on how we look after cats across the Metroplex is on our cat sitting page.

Your Home’s Security Is Our Priority

Allen notices marked vans. Our sitters don’t wear branded uniforms or drive wrapped cars, and we don’t plant a yard sign that says you are gone.

Your sitter looks like a neighbor or family member stopping by — which is the point in Twin Creeks, Montgomery Farm, Ridgeview, Waterford Parks, Star Creek, or a quiet street off Exchange Parkway. Allen is the kind of community where neighbors notice things. We want them to see a familiar, low-key presence, not a pet sitting company van. Gate codes stay with the one assigned person. We want the house to look lived-in, not advertised.

Discretion isn’t a perk. It’s standard.

Meet Our Allen Pet Sitters

You meet your assigned Allen-area sitter in your home before the first paid visit. They are a W-2 employee, not a rotating contractor. Ashley and Laura handle scheduling. A manager on duty can hand a visit to any of our 250-plus sitters — the practical difference between a company and an app. No photos on this page — you meet them in person.

Frannie

Allen-area pet sitter. “I love animals and I like knowing that my clients can feel good about leaving their fur babies in my care. Because of my work with DFW Pet Sitting I’ve found that I’m a cat person AND a dog person!”

What Allen Clients Say

Allen families review us on the same Google listing as the rest of DFW — 4.9 stars from 500+ reviews. Read the reviews, then meet your sitter in person.

Read our Google reviews · Call (214) 574-7387 · Text (214) 360-7367

Where Our Allen Sitters Walk

Allen embraces pet owners with well-maintained parks, trails, and community spaces. Here are the spots our sitters recommend:

Celebration Park — Ninety-seven acres on North Angel Parkway, with sports fields, tennis and pickleball courts, a playground and sprayground, two rentable pavilions and a good stretch of walking trail. The loops here are wide and mostly shaded in the late afternoon, which matters in a Texas July.

Allen Station Park — A hundred and twenty-five acres on North Cedar Drive. Baseball and softball complexes, a BMX track and skate park, a playground and accessible parking. Our sitters like the perimeter trail because it is flat, well lit and easy on older dogs.

Spirit Park — Seventy-five acres of tournament fields, hike-and-bike trail, fitness stations, public art and a treehouse-style playground. A genuinely pleasant walk. To correct something you may read elsewhere, including an earlier version of this page: Spirit Park does not have a fenced dog park. Allen’s off-leash park is The Bark Yard.

The Bark Yard — Allen’s dedicated dog park at 510 South Jupiter Road, with three rotating paddocks so the ground gets a rest, shaded areas for bigger dogs and agility features sized for small ones. Worth knowing about for your own weekends. One thing we will always be straight with you about: we do not take client dogs off leash while we are on the clock. Not at The Bark Yard, not anywhere. A dog who has never met us has no reason to come back when called, and that is not a risk we will take with your animal.

Bethany Lakes Park — On East Bethany Drive, with a lake loop that stays interesting for dogs who like to watch water birds. The park also holds Allen’s memorial to members of the U.S. Armed Forces, where engraved bricks are installed twice a year.

Dayspring Nature Preserve — Ten quieter acres on Comanche Drive in 75013, with trails, open space, a shaded playground, picnic tables, benches and grills. Our first choice for a reactive or nervous dog, because you can usually find a stretch with nobody else on it.

Allen’s trail system — The city passed a hundred miles of trail and is still building. The Rowlett Trail extension added another 1.67 miles, and a southern extension of Watters Trail has been approved with work due to finish by summer 2026. Between Bel Air, Cottonwood, Exchange, Mustang Creek, Ridgeview, Rowlett Creek, Shallowater, Stacy and Storybook, most Allen homes sit within a short walk of a paved trailhead — which is a large part of why midday walks here are easy to schedule.

Allen is Tree City USA — and has been every single year since 2002. That is not trivia so much as an explanation for why the shade cover on Allen’s older streets is as good as it is, and why summer midday walks are more comfortable here than in some newer suburbs to the north.

There are also PetSmart and Petco locations in Allen that host adoption events, training classes and vaccination clinics — a convenient stop, and a good place to meet other Allen pet owners.

Ready to meet your Allen pet sitter in person? The in-home consultation is free, there is no obligation, and you will know exactly who is caring for your pets before you ever book a visit.

Allen Neighborhoods We Serve

Allen covers two ZIP codes, 75002 and 75013, and we staff both. Coverage follows your address rather than the city line, so the honest answer to “do you come to my street” is almost always yes.

We regularly work in Twin Creeks, Star Creek, Montgomery Farm, Watters Crossing, Suncreek, Bethany Lakes, Cottonwood Bend, Waterford Parks, Custer Meadows, Bradford Crossing, Country Meadows, Spring Meadow, Stacy Ridge, Quail Run, Rolling Hills, Glendover, Windridge, Walden, Bethany Ridge, The Orchards and Greenville Heights, along with the newer building west of Alma and north of Ridgeview.

If your neighborhood is not on that list, it is not a problem — it usually means we have simply not written it down yet. Give us your address instead of your subdivision and we will tell you which sitter is closest.

Midday Dog Walking in Allen

A great many of our Allen clients are not traveling at all. They are at an office in Plano or Richardson, or on back-to-back calls at home, and their dog has been holding it since seven in the morning. A midday visit breaks that up: a bathroom break, a real walk, fresh water, and a few minutes of company from someone the dog knows.

Dog walking in Allen starts at $23. Your walker commits to the same days and the same rough arrival window each week, and it is the same person every time — not whoever happened to accept the job that morning. Because your walker lives in Allen rather than driving in from another county, the window stays tight even when Central Expressway does not cooperate.

For puppies and for dogs on medication we will often suggest two shorter visits rather than one long one. We would rather tell you that than sell you a single walk that does not actually solve the problem.

How It Works — Three Steps

One. You text or call. Tell us your address, your dates and what your animals need. Texting is genuinely easier for most people: (214) 360-7367 is monitored day and night. Phones are answered from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Central at (214) 574-7387, and a manager is on call around the clock.

Two. You meet your sitter, at home, for free. They come to your house, meet your animals, learn the alarm code, the quirks, the hiding spots and the vet’s name, and write it all down. No obligation, no charge. If the fit is not right, you tell us and we send someone else.

Three. That same person does the visits. One sitter, one key, one relationship. If they are ever genuinely unable to come, a manager who has already been briefed on your home covers it — never an unvetted stranger.

Frequently Asked Questions About Pet Sitting in Allen

Which Allen ZIP codes do you serve?

Two — 75002 and 75013. Allen is compact enough that both are comfortably inside our normal working area, and our sitters here also cover the adjoining Collin County cities. If your address sits on the line with Plano, McKinney or Fairview, the closest available sitter is what decides who comes, not the city boundary.

What are your rates in Allen?

$25 for a 25-minute drop-in with one pet, $3 for each additional pet, and dog walking plans starting at $23. The same price list applies in every city we serve, with no distance charge and no fee appended at checkout. The rates page lists each service, or call (214) 574-7387.

Does Spirit Park have a dog park?

No, and we want to correct that plainly because you may read otherwise elsewhere — including in an earlier version of this page. Spirit Park is seventy-five acres of tournament fields, hike-and-bike trail, fitness stations, public art and a treehouse-style playground, and it makes a genuinely pleasant leashed walk. But Allen’s off-leash park is The Bark Yard, not Spirit Park.

Where is Allen’s dog park?

The Bark Yard, at 510 South Jupiter Road. It has three rotating paddocks so the ground gets a rest, shaded areas for bigger dogs and agility features sized for small ones. It is worth knowing about for your own weekends — with the paddock rotation the footing there holds up better through a wet spring than most.

Will my sitter let my dog off leash at The Bark Yard?

No, and we will always be straight with you about this: we do not take client dogs off leash while we are on the clock. Not at The Bark Yard, not anywhere. A dog who has never met us has no reason to come back when called, and that is not a risk we are willing to take with your animal.

What is the best walk for an older dog?

Allen Station Park, a hundred and twenty-five acres on North Cedar Drive. Our sitters like the perimeter trail specifically because it is flat, well lit and easy on older dogs — there is no climb to manage and no uneven footing to worry about. The park also holds baseball and softball complexes, a BMX track and skate park, a playground and accessible parking.

And for a dog who needs shade in the summer?

Celebration Park, ninety-seven acres on North Angel Parkway. The loops there are wide and mostly shaded in the late afternoon, which matters a great deal in a Texas July. There are also sports fields, tennis and pickleball courts, a playground and sprayground, and two rentable pavilions if you are making an afternoon of it.

Anywhere quiet, away from ballfields and crowds?

Dayspring Nature Preserve — ten quieter acres on Comanche Drive in 75013, with trails and none of the noise. For a nervous or reactive dog it is the easiest outing in the city. Bethany Lakes Park on East Bethany Drive is another good option, with a lake loop that stays interesting for dogs who like watching water birds, and it holds Allen’s memorial to members of the U.S. Armed Forces where engraved bricks are installed twice a year.

Does my pet leave the house?

Only on a leash with the sitter. There is no facility, no boarding, no daycare and no van full of other dogs. Feeding, fresh water, litter, medication, play and a look over the house all happen inside your home, and it is locked when the sitter leaves.

Can we interview the sitter beforehand?

Yes, free of charge and before any paid visit. She comes to the house, meets your animals, walks the yard and the gate, checks the alarm panel, and writes your routine down while you explain it. You are deciding whether to trust her with a key, and twenty minutes now is worth more than reassurance later.

Who will be in my home?

A W-2 employee of DFW Pet Sitting Services who cleared a background check before her first shift, is bonded, and is covered by our commercial liability insurance. Not a contractor, not a freelancer. The company that hired, trained and insured her is the company you are calling.

Who gives my dog his insulin while we are away?

Yes — oral doses, insulin, sub-q fluids, eye drops and inhalers are all standard. The medication, the amount, the timing and your veterinarian’s contact details go into your file in writing rather than being remembered. Time-critical doses get the visit windows built around them, so mention it when you book.

What is your backup if my sitter cannot come?

Another trained employee takes the visit and we tell you it happened rather than letting you find out. Allen sits in the middle of one of our most heavily staffed regions, so a replacement is close by, and your instructions are stored centrally so she arrives already knowing how to get in and what your animals need.

Why hire you instead of a Rover sitter?

Because a marketplace is a directory of individuals, and we are a business with staff. We employ and insure every sitter, we supervise the work, we keep documented care instructions, and we have someone to send when a visit is at risk — none of which a platform arranges for you. We have been doing this since 2003, and our 4.9-star average from more than 500+ Google reviews belongs to the company.

We’re Hiring Pet Sitters in Allen

Looking for pet sitting work in Allen? We’re hiring W-2 pet sitters and dog walkers who live close to the homes they visit — Twin Creeks, Montgomery Farm, Ridgeview, Waterford Parks, Star Creek, Exchange Parkway, and nearby. Apply on our jobs page.

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