Your cat does not want to go anywhere. That is the entire argument for in-home cat sitting, and it is why DFW Pet Sitting has never run a boarding facility in more than twenty years. A sitter who lives near you comes to your house, feeds your cat, cleans the litter box, changes the water, spends real time with her, and leaves the house looking lived in. Your cat keeps her own food, her own furniture, her own windows and her own routine.
- $25 for a 25-minute visit, one cat
- Each additional cat $3
- Medication $4 a visit, sub-Q fluids $25
- Free in-home meet-and-greet before anything is booked
We are already taking Thanksgiving and Christmas bookings.
Why most cats do better at home
Cats are territorial in a way dogs are not. For a lot of them, the stressful part of you leaving is not solitude — it is being moved. A carrier ride, a strange room, unfamiliar smells and the sound of other animals will put many cats off their food and their litter box within a day. Keeping the cat in her own house removes all of that at once.
Staying home also means no exposure to other households’ animals, no shared air space, and no disruption for the cats who are older, medicated or simply set in their ways. If you have a senior cat on a twice-daily schedule, her schedule does not have to change just because you went to a wedding.
What actually happens during a cat visit
A visit is 25 minutes, and it is not just a food drop. Your sitter follows the written instructions you give at your meet-and-greet, and every visit covers the same ground:
- Fresh food measured the way you feed it, and bowls washed rather than topped up
- Water changed — and if you use a fountain, it gets checked and refilled
- Litter scooped every visit, with a full change on longer trips
- Medication given if your cat needs it
- Time with your cat: play, brushing, a lap, or quietly sharing a room if that is what she prefers
- A walk through the house — mail and packages brought in, plants watered, lights and blinds alternated, a look for leaks or anything out of place
- Photos and a written note sent to you after the visit
Your sitter checks in and out of every visit through our scheduling software, so there is a time-stamped record that the visit happened and how long it lasted. A manager watches that in the background. If a visit has not been checked in when it should be, we know before you do.
One thing worth knowing: every request — an extra visit, a schedule change, a question about your invoice — goes through our office rather than to your sitter directly. It keeps things from getting lost in a text message thread.
How often should a cat sitter come?
For a healthy adult cat, our standard recommendation is one visit a day. People sometimes assume a cat can be left with a big bowl of food and a clean box for three or four days, and the food is genuinely the least of it. The reason to come daily is water, a usable litter box, and — more than anything — having someone lay eyes on the animal. A cat who stops eating, or a male cat with a urinary blockage, is an emergency measured in hours.
We suggest two visits a day for kittens, senior cats, diabetics, cats on twice-daily medication, and households with several cats where one of them tends to guard the food bowl.
We do offer every-other-day visits, and there is a $5 surcharge per visit for them. We will also tell you honestly at the meet-and-greet when we do not think every other day is enough for your particular cat. You are free to book it anyway — it is your call — but we would rather say it out loud than not.
Cats who need medication
A large share of the cats we see are on something: a pill, a transdermal gel rubbed into the ear, an inhaler, insulin, or subcutaneous fluids for kidney disease. Our sitters are employees we train, not contractors we found in an app, and the meet-and-greet is where you physically show your sitter how you do it — which side of the mouth, which scruff, where the syringes live.
Medication is $4 a visit. Insulin injections and asthma inhalers are $10. Sub-Q fluids are $25. We ask for your veterinarian’s details and your authorization at sign-up, so that if something goes wrong at eleven at night we are not hunting for a phone number.
Shy cats, and cats who hide
Some cats greet the sitter at the door on day one. Others spend the first three visits under a bed, and that is normal. Our sitters do not drag a cat out from under furniture to get a photo. What they do instead is confirm the cat is eating and using the box, look for her without cornering her, and note it for you.
This is the part where having the same sitter every visit stops being a marketing line and starts mattering. A nervous cat learns one person’s footsteps and voice. She does not get the chance to do that if a different stranger turns up each day. If your cat has not eaten or has not used the litter box, that gets escalated to the office the same day rather than mentioned at the end of the week.
If you have cats and a dog
You do not have to pick a service. One 25-minute visit covers the whole household — the dog gets walked, the cats get fed and their box cleaned — and it is $25 for the first pet and $3 for each one after that, dog or cat. There is no separate cat sitting rate to choose and no second booking to make.
What cat sitting costs
- $25 for a 25-minute visit, one cat
- $3 for each additional pet
- $10 to extend a visit by 15 minutes
- $120 a night for an overnight stay in your home, $20 for each additional pet
- $4 for medication, $10 for insulin or an inhaler, $25 for sub-Q fluids
- $5 extra per visit if you book every other day
- $20 per visit on holidays, and $20 for anything booked within 24 hours
The meet-and-greet is free, we do not ask for a card to give you a quote, and picking up your key at that first meeting costs nothing. Every price on the site is listed on our rates page, including overnights and house checks.
Cat sitting across Dallas–Fort Worth
We are a service-area business, not a storefront. Our sitters live in the neighborhoods they cover, which is why the person who comes to your house is usually within about five miles of your front door. Pick your city below for local details, neighborhoods we cover and the sitters who work there.
- Cat sitting in Addison
- Cat sitting in Allen
- Cat sitting in Argyle
- Cat sitting in Arlington
- Cat sitting in Bedford
- Cat sitting in Carrollton
- Cat sitting in Cedar Hill
- Cat sitting in Colleyville
- Cat sitting in Coppell
- Cat sitting in Corinth
- Cat sitting in Dallas
- Cat sitting in Denton
- Cat sitting in DeSoto
- Cat sitting in Euless
- Cat sitting in Farmers Branch
- Cat sitting in Flower Mound
- Cat sitting in Fort Worth
- Cat sitting in Frisco
- Cat sitting in Garland
- Cat sitting in Grapevine
- Cat sitting in Highland Park
- Cat sitting in Highland Village
- Cat sitting in Hurst
- Cat sitting in Irving
- Cat sitting in Justin
- Cat sitting in Keller
- Cat sitting in Lake Dallas
- Cat sitting in Lake Highlands
- Cat sitting in Las Colinas
- Cat sitting in Lewisville
- Cat sitting in Little Elm
- Cat sitting in Mansfield
- Cat sitting in McKinney
- Cat sitting in North Richland Hills
- Cat sitting in Northlake
- Cat sitting in Plano
- Cat sitting in Prosper
- Cat sitting in Richardson
- Cat sitting in Roanoke
- Cat sitting in Rowlett
- Cat sitting in Sachse
- Cat sitting in Southlake
- Cat sitting in The Colony
- Cat sitting in Trophy Club
- Cat sitting in Turtle Creek
- Cat sitting in University Park
- Cat sitting in Valley Ranch
- Cat sitting in Westlake
- Cat sitting in Wylie
Do not see your city? We cover more of the Metroplex than we have pages for — check our service areas or just call and ask.
Common questions about cat sitting
Will it be the same sitter every visit?
Yes. You meet your sitter before you book, and that is the person who comes. For cats especially, this is the single thing that makes the most difference.
What happens if my sitter gets sick?
We have an emergency protocol and a manager on call. A backup sitter who has been briefed on your instructions covers the visit, and you are told — you do not find out from a photo of a stranger in your kitchen.
How do you get into my house?
Keys, lockbox codes, garage codes and smart locks all work. We collect the key at your free meet-and-greet at no charge. If we need to pick one up or drop one off later, that is $15 each time.
Can I book a single visit?
Yes. One visit, a long weekend, or ongoing service while you travel for work — there is no minimum number of visits and no membership.
How far ahead should I book for the holidays?
As early as you can. Thanksgiving, Christmas and spring break fill first, and holiday visits carry a $20 surcharge. Anything booked inside 24 hours is $20 extra as well, so early is cheaper as well as safer.
Are you insured?
Insured and bonded, and every sitter is a W-2 employee who has been background-checked. We are not a platform that connects you with a stranger and takes a cut.
Meet your cat sitter first
The meet-and-greet is free and happens in your home. You show your sitter where the food is, how your cat likes to be approached, which cabinet the litter lives in and what the vet’s name is. Nothing is booked and no card is taken until after it.