Pet sitting and dog walking in Fort Worth since 2003

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The same insured, background-checked employee cares for your pets every visit — never a gig worker. Free in-home meet-and-greet, and a 100% money-back guarantee.

Official service providers of Microsoft and Oracle

DFW Pet Sitting credentials: Angie’s List Super Service Award, Nextdoor, Pet Sitters International member, 4.9 stars from 500+ Google reviews, licensed insured and bonded 100% guarantee, Yelp, NAPPS member, Facebook, and WFAA A-List
Since 200320+ years in business
1,000,000+pet sitting visits
W‑2 Employeesinsured & bonded, never gig workers

Credentials Fort Worth families can check for themselves

Corporate PartnershipsOfficial pet care providers for Microsoft and Oracle.
NAPPS Board MemberNational Association of Professional Pet Sitters.
Pet Sitters InternationalMember of the industry’s largest professional body.
Award-Winning ServiceAngie’s List Super Service and WFAA A-List honors.
1,000,000+ VisitsCompleted across the Metroplex since 2003.
  • $25 for 25 minutes, one pet
  • Extra pet $3
  • Dog walking plans from $23
  • Free in-home meet-and-greet

We cover Fort Worth from 76102 downtown out to 76177 at Alliance — the Cultural District and Arlington Heights (76107), Ridglea (76116), Tanglewood, the TCU area and Clearfork (76109), Fairmount and the near Southside (76104 and 76110), Wedgwood (76133), the Stockyards (76164), and north Fort Worth (76106, 76131, 76137, 76179). We also cover the neighboring town of Westover Hills, which has its own city government but a Fort Worth 76107 mailing address. Sitters already know Trinity Trails, Fort Woof, Sundance Square, and the streets around the Kimbell.

We’re already taking Thanksgiving and Christmas bookings. Phones 6:00am–11:00pm Central. A manager is on call 24/7 if a visit needs backup.

DFW Pet Sitting Services logo surrounded by various pets including cats, dogs, guinea pig, and other small animals we care for in the Dallas Fort Worth area

Looking for a Trusted Pet Sitter in Fort Worth?

Fort Worth is its own city with its own identity — and Fort Worth pet owners deserve a pet sitting company that understands that. DFW Pet Sitting has been caring for Fort Worth pets since 2003. We’re not a Dallas company that “also covers” Fort Worth as an afterthought. We have a dedicated Fort Worth team with sitters who live and work right here in Tarrant County.

Every pet sitter and dog walker we assign in Fort Worth 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 in the Fort Worth area, usually within 5 miles of your front door.

We are a company, not a marketplace. Your assigned sitter meets you and your animals before the first paid visit and then keeps the assignment. In a city with thirty residential ZIP codes and edges that confuse even the Postal Service, one person who knows your street and your gate is worth more than a longer list of names.

Phones are answered 6:00am–11:00pm Central and a manager is reachable after hours to arrange cover. Every visit is logged in our software, and if one needs backup there is a written protocol and more than 250 employees across the metroplex to call on.

Why Fort Worth Families Choose DFW Pet Sitting

Unlike apps like Rover or Wag where you’re hiring a stranger with a profile, our Fort Worth pet sitters are professionally managed employees. Here’s what that means for you:

Your sitter lives in Fort Worth. Our Fort Worth team covers the thirty residential ZIP codes the Postal Service delivers as Fort Worth — 76102, 76103, 76104, 76105, 76106, 76107, 76108, 76109, 76110, 76111, 76112, 76114, 76115, 76116, 76118, 76119, 76120, 76123, 76126, 76131, 76132, 76133, 76134, 76135, 76137, 76140, 76155, 76164, 76177 and 76179 — plus the neighboring Tarrant County towns that share those codes. Your sitter isn’t driving from across the metroplex — they’re right in your neighborhood. Less drive time means more time with your pets.

One person, every time. The pet sitter you meet at your free consultation is the only person who will ever enter your home. No rotating strangers. Your pets stay on their schedule, and you know the name of the one person entering your home. Alarm codes, gate codes, and spare-key instructions stay with that one employee.

The visits are checked. Each one is tracked in real time, so a check-in that does not arrive gets chased the same day. Across a service area this size, that supervision is what stops a missed visit from becoming a discovery.

Real insurance and bonding. Every sitter is covered under our company’s liability insurance and bonding. This isn’t a $1 million “guarantee” from an app — it’s actual commercial coverage. We do NOT use independent contractors.

Emergency backup that works. Life happens. If your sitter has an emergency, we don’t leave you scrambling. Our manager activates our emergency replacement protocol, notifies you immediately, and sends a qualified backup sitter from the Fort Worth area. Our nearby Southlake, Keller, and Arlington teams provide additional backup depth. Because more than 250 sitters are on our payroll across the metroplex, a problem on our end does not become your problem.

Pet Sitting Services We Offer in Fort Worth

We offer pet sitting and dog walking services in Fort Worth and the surrounding Tarrant County areas this team already covers. Visits are 25 minutes.

Vacation & Travel Pet Sitting — A flight east out of DFW or a drive west into the hill country, your animals notice the difference in the house long before they notice you are gone. Your Fort Worth sitter keeps the schedule intact: meals when they normally happen, medication on time, walks, and play. Dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, fish and small caged animals all stay home. Nothing gets boarded to make the trip simpler.

Daily Dog Walking — Perfect for Fort Worth 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.” Whether you live near the Cultural District, in Westover Hills, or along the Trinity River, your walker is nearby — and Fort Worth’s trail system means they’ll never run out of great routes. Trinity Trails, Trinity Park, Overton Park, and the stretch near Clearfork are the usual leashed loops when your dog needs more than a hallway.

Cat Sitting — Nothing about looking after a cat requires putting her in a car. Pills, insulin injections, sub-q fluids and inhalers get handled at home, quietly, on her terms. See how a 25-minute Fort Worth cat visit works.

Short-Notice & Holiday Coverage — Thirty residential ZIP codes is a lot of ground, and it is covered by sitters who already live on it, so a late request usually finds somebody nearby rather than somebody across the county. Thanksgiving and Christmas are the exception and they go first. Call while the dates are still tentative.

House Sitting & Home Checks — Mail, porch packages, lights, bins, plants, and a walk-through. Most Fort Worth clients add this onto pet visits rather than booking it alone — especially in Westover Hills and Ridglea (76107 and 76116), Tanglewood, Clearfork and the TCU area (76109), and Fairmount (76104 and 76110), where an empty house is obvious.

What Makes Us Different From Rover and Wag

A gate code in Westover Hills, an alarm panel in a Fairmount Craftsman, a Clearfork backyard that opens onto the Trinity, and a flight time that can slide an hour — that is a lot of specific knowledge to hand a stranger with a profile. The person who holds all of it is one of our own employees, on payroll and insured, and this company has been sitting pets in Fort Worth since 2003. Side by side:

Rover / WagDFW Pet Sitting
Who enters your homeA different contractor each time you bookOne assigned sitter — the same person, every visit
Who they work forIndependent gig contractorW-2 employee: background-checked, trained, supervised
If something goes wrongPlatform “guarantee” with exclusionsCommercial liability insurance and bonding
If your sitter cancelsYou re-book and hopeManager activates backup from 250+ DFW staff
OversightNothing between you and the sitterEvery visit tracked by a manager in real time
Before your first visitOptional chat, often skippedFree in-person meet-and-greet, always

Cat sitting in Fort Worth

A cat has no interest in a car, a carrier, or a room full of other people’s animals, and none of it is necessary. Fort Worth sitters give medication, insulin shots, sub-q fluids and asthma inhalers at your house. A visit runs 25 minutes: fresh water, the portion you use, a freshly turned litter box, play if she wants it, and a frank read on her condition. A picture of her goes out at the end.

Sitters handle pills, insulin, sub-q fluids, eye drops, and inhalers. If a cat hides in a Ridglea bungalow, a Westover Hills ranch, a Fairmount Craftsman, or a Clearfork townhome 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 eyes on her at least once a day. Kittens, cats past their teens, and any cat on a prescription get two visits. Filling the bowl to the brim and leaving the box is not coverage, and it fails worst precisely when a short trip stretches past its return date.

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

Your Home’s Security Is Our Priority

We do this without advertising it. No branded uniform, no lettering on the vehicle, no sign in your yard. Fort Worth neighborhoods vary enormously from one block to the next, and in every one of them an unmarked car draws less attention than a logo.

Your sitter reads as a friend or a relative arriving, not as a service call. Nobody on the block is told that you are away, and the house keeps the appearance of being lived in — which is most of the reason to have somebody come by at all.

This matters in Fort Worth — whether you’re in a ranch-style home in Westover Hills (76107), a historic Craftsman in Fairmount (76104), a newer build in Clearfork (76109), or a family home in Wedgwood (76133) or Ridglea (76116). Discretion isn’t a perk — it’s standard. Gate codes, alarm codes, and spare keys stay with the one assigned person.

Neighborhoods We Serve in Fort Worth

Fort Worth is a big city, and we focus our coverage where we have the strongest team of local sitters:

Cultural District & West Fort Worth (76107, 76116) — Arlington Heights, Monticello, and the streets around the Kimbell Art Museum (3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., 76107) and the Fort Worth Zoo (1989 Colonial Pkwy., 76110) sit in 76107; Ridglea is 76116; Tanglewood is 76109. Westover Hills belongs on this list, but it is worth being precise about it: Westover Hills is a separate incorporated town with its own government, not a Fort Worth neighborhood, and the Postal Service does not accept “Westover Hills” as a mailing name at all — every address inside it is written Fort Worth, TX 76107. We cover it either way. This is a hub for our Fort Worth sitters.

Southside & Fairmount (76104, 76110) — Historic neighborhoods with a growing community of young pet owners. Magnolia Avenue and the South Main district are 76104; Fairmount runs on into 76110 as you move south and west. Two of the city’s six dog parks are in this pocket. Sundance Square (76102) and the Stockyards (76164) are the downtown landmarks sitters already know how to work around on a walk.

TCU Area & Wedgwood (76109, 76133) — University-adjacent neighborhoods where families and professionals need reliable pet care and dog walking. The TCU campus has its own USPS code, 76129, but the houses around it are 76109; Wedgwood is 76133. Overton Park, 3500 Overton Park Dr East, 76109, is the usual leashed loop when a TCU-area dog needs more than the block — a linear park of about 48.68 acres, roughly a mile long, that the city says links Tanglewood and Overton Park in the north to Foster Park in the south.

Trinity Park — 2401 University Drive, 76107, about 252 acres, and the first park the City of Fort Worth ever bought: roughly fifty acres straddling the Clear Fork, purchased in 1892. The WPA shelter, duck pond, playground, grills and trails are all still there, along with the boarding station for the Forest Park Miniature Railroad. It is the easiest place in the city to give a dog a long leashed loop without leaving the Cultural District.

North Fort Worth & Alliance (76106, 76131, 76137, 76164, 76177, 76179) — Newer developments and growing communities north of downtown, from the Stockyards in 76164 up through 76131 and 76137 to Alliance in 76177. One wrinkle worth knowing: Fort Worth city limits also reach into ZIP 76244, but the Postal Service addresses 76244 mail as Keller, so if your Alliance-area address says Keller you are almost certainly still inside Fort Worth. Connected to our Keller and Southlake teams for backup.

Clearfork & Trinity River Corridor (76107, 76109) — Clearfork and Waterside sit on old Edwards Ranch land in 76109, with Trinity Trails access straight off the back of the neighborhood. The corridor runs north from there through Trinity Park (2401 University Drive, 76107) and on to Panther Island (76102). The trail access is exactly why our dog walkers like this stretch.

We also have separate pages covering nearby Southlake, Keller, Arlington, Bedford, Hurst, Euless, Colleyville, and North Richland Hills for pet owners on the edges of Fort Worth. Coverage follows your address, not the map. Call (214) 574-7387 or text (214) 360-7367 if you’re not sure about your area.

Meet Our Fort Worth Pet Sitters

You will meet one of our dog walkers or pet sitters who live in the Fort Worth area — in your home, before the first paid visit. They are a W-2 employee, not a rotating contractor. We employ pet lovers who work in their immediate neighborhoods, usually within 5 miles of their homes. 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.

Lisa L, one of our Fort Worth-area sitters, put it this way:

“I like working with DFW Pet Sitting because of the variety of furry friends I interact with. 🙂 I enjoy watching and caring for my clients’ pets. This job makes me feel like I am on vacation when I spend time in different environments. I also like and appreciate the flexibility of the job. Great part-time job for a single mom or stay-at-home mom.”

Thanks for the kudos, Lisa!!

Terri R joined DFW Pet Sitting in November 2012. She is one of our company’s most tenured and experienced pet sitters. Pet sitting is so much more than a job for her. It’s her passion, her inspiration, her life. She connects with her clients, both human and furry ones. She becomes an extended family to each household that she meets.

Terri has gone through it all with her extended pet families: health, sickness, potty training, laughs, tears… She loves documenting her experiences in the form of creative writing. She is a published author of many pet-related articles. You can find her work at https://petsitterimagines.blogspot.com/, https://terririmmer2018.blogspot.com/, and her portfolio is all stored at https://rimmersportfolio.blogspot.com/.

Terri loves that she gets to have a flexible schedule along with close and personal relationship-building with her clients. Meeting new pets is the highlight of her life. Every pet is different. Every pet sitting visit is different. No two days are alike. It never gets boring being a professional pet sitter and dog walker.

Terri is a proud parent of a 12-year-old calico cat, Marbles. Marbles has quite a personality! Her favorite thing is when Terri cleans the house. That’s when Marbles gets to explore behind furniture that gets moved around, hide in new drawers that usually stay shut, or crawl into open spaces that are usually hidden. Daily brushing is a daily routine for both Terri and Marbles. Watching TV snuggled up on the couch is one of their favorite pastimes.

That’s the kind of passion that makes our Fort Worth team special. Our Fort Worth sitters work only within a 5-mile radius of where they live, covering the Cultural District and Westover Hills (76107), Ridglea (76116), Fairmount (76104 and 76110), the TCU area and Clearfork (76109), Wedgwood (76133), north Fort Worth (76106, 76131, 76137, 76164, 76179) and Alliance (76177). The person you meet is the only person entering your home.

What clients say

Fort Worth families review us on the same Google listing as the rest of DFW — 4.9 stars from 500+ reviews. The reviews are for the company as a whole, Fort Worth clients among them. Read the reviews, then meet your sitter in person.

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Fort Worth’s Best Spots for Dogs

Fort Woof dog park in Fort Worth

Fort Worth’s parks, river trails, and west-side neighborhoods give pet owners a lot to work with. Here are the spots our sitters recommend:

Fort Woof Dog Park — 751 Beach St., 76111, inside Gateway Park on the east side. Fort Worth’s first off-leash dog park, and still the best-known: a 3.4-acre run for large dogs and a separate 1.6-acre run for small ones, with agility courses, water fountains, shaded shelters and waste stations. Dog Fancy named it the No. 1 dog park in the nation in 2006, and CityVoter called it the best in the Metroplex in 2009. Two things to plan around: Fort Woof is closed every Thursday for scheduled maintenance, and it can close after rain when the city judges the ground too saturated. Gates are open 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. otherwise. The small-dog side is for dogs under 40 pounds, puppies under four months of age are not permitted at all, and no food or drink is allowed inside. We don’t do off-leash parks on the clock — even here. If you want off-leash time at Fort Woof, that’s a visit you do together.

Trinity Trails — the Tarrant Regional Water District, which built and maintains the system, puts it at more than 100 miles of trail running through 31 neighborhoods and 21 city parks, along the more than 2,000 acres TRWD oversees on the Trinity River. TRWD’s own answer on dogs is short: yes, dogs are welcome on a leash, and clean up after them. Our dog walkers especially love the stretch near Clearfork and the section through Trinity Park. On the clock we keep walks leashed here.

ZBonz Dog Park — 6950 W. Camp Bowie Blvd., 76116. This is the big one, and it is on the west side of town rather than the south: ten fully irrigated acres built on the former Z. Boaz Golf Course, divided into roughly seven acres for large dogs and three for small, with two shelters, various agility items, pet fountains and two aerated ponds. ZBonz is closed every Wednesday for scheduled maintenance and, like Fort Woof, can close after rain. Same rule on our side: we don’t do off-leash parks on the clock. You can take that session together.

Fort Worth’s four smaller dog parks — almost everyone knows Fort Woof and ZBonz; the city runs four more that hardly anyone mentions, all open 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Bark Park at First Flight, 2700 Mercedes Ave., 76107, is about 3,200 square feet just off West 7th Street; the city recommends it for small dogs only and says large dogs are not a good fit for the space. Fire Station Dog Park, 1601 Lipscomb St., 76104, sits in Fire Station Park near Hemphill and Allen in Fairmount, beside the skatepark, playground and community center. Calhoun Dog Park, 409 E. Annie St., 76104, is a small fenced run with covered seating inside Calhoun Park near South Main. Palmilla Springs Dog Park, 2957 Plumbago Dr., 76108, is a small fenced area with a bench and a waste station in Palmilla Spring Park, north of I-30 and west of Chapel Creek Boulevard, with a paved walking trail, playground and covered pavilion around it. If you live in Fairmount, on the Southside, off West 7th or out past Chapel Creek, one of these is closer than either of the big two.

Panther Island Pavilion — 395 Purcey St., 76102, a Tarrant Regional Water District venue on the Trinity River just north of downtown. Not a dog park, but a good leashed walk on a cool morning with the skyline behind you. Check the event calendar first: the pavilion and the main sections of Trinity Trails around it close for large events, and it is where the city’s Fourth of July celebration is held.

Overton Park — 3500 Overton Park Dr East, 76109. A TCU-area favorite for a leashed neighborhood walk: shade, open lawn, trails, tennis courts, and a route that doesn’t require a drive across town. The Cassco Land Company deeded the original strip in 1959 out of the historic Edwards Ranch — the same ranch land Clearfork was later built on — and it now runs about 48.68 acres.

The Stockyards & Sundance Square — landmarks, not off-leash parks. The Stockyards sit north of downtown on the 76164/76106 line; Sundance Square Plaza is at 420 Main Street, 76102, in the middle of a 37-block downtown campus that runs live music in the plaza most Wednesday through Sunday evenings. If your dog is comfortable on a leash around crowds, these are the downtown Fort Worth walks families ask about. We keep them leashed and skip them when it’s too hot or too packed.

One Fort Worth rule that catches new residents out: since June 26, 2018 the city has required a registered microchip for every dog and cat in Fort Worth. If your pet is microchipped, the city says you do not also need a pet license; if it is not, the license is what gets your pet home. Fort Worth Animal Care & Control handles both at 4900 Martin St., 76119, or by mail with a copy of a current rabies vaccination certificate. The city’s dog parks enforce the same thing at the gate — every dog must be licensed with a current rabies tag, and dogs owned by Fort Worth residents must carry city-issued tags from Animal Care & Control. We go through all of it at the meet-and-greet so none of it is a surprise while you are away.

The real point is to get out and enjoy this city with your dog. Dedicated teams also cover Southlake, Keller, Arlington, Bedford, Hurst, Euless, and Colleyville. City limits here are genuinely confusing in places, so we assign by street address instead. Call and you get whichever sitter is closest to your door.

Ready to meet your Fort Worth 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.

Frequently Asked Questions About Pet Sitting in Fort Worth

Which Fort Worth ZIP codes do you serve?

Thirty of them, all inside city limits: 76102, 76103, 76104, 76105, 76106, 76107, 76108, 76109, 76110, 76111, 76112, 76114, 76115, 76116, 76118, 76119, 76120, 76123, 76126, 76131, 76132, 76133, 76134, 76135, 76137, 76140, 76155, 76164, 76177 and 76179. Fort Worth is the largest city on this site by area, so the list is long and the edges are complicated — the next two questions deal with the parts that trip people up.

My mail says Fort Worth, but am I actually in the city?

Possibly not, and the edge is genuinely confusing. City limits reach into 76244 even though the Postal Service addresses 76244 mail as Keller. Going the other way, 76117 is Haltom City, 76148 is Watauga, and 76180 and 76182 are North Richland Hills — USPS will accept “Fort Worth” as the city name on mail to all four, but the city limits there are not Fort Worth. It rarely matters for service: we cover 76180 and 76182 from the North Richland Hills team and 76244 from Keller.

My ZIP is 76101. Why can’t you find my address?

Because nobody lives in it. 76101, 76113, 76136, 76147, 76161, 76162, 76163, 76181 and 76185 are Fort Worth PO-box-only codes with no homes in them. If that is the ZIP printed on your mail, give us the street address instead and we will place you properly. The TCU campus is a similar case — it has its own USPS code, 76129, while the houses around it are 76109.

I live on the edge near Keller, Southlake or Arlington. Can you still serve me?

Yes. We have dedicated teams in Southlake, Keller, Arlington, Bedford, Hurst, Euless and Colleyville, all bordering Fort Worth. We match you with the closest sitter regardless of which team she is technically on, so an address on the boundary usually gets a shorter drive rather than a longer one.

What does pet sitting cost in Fort Worth?

$25 for a 25-minute visit with one pet, $3 for each additional pet, and dog walking plans from $23. In a city this large the temptation would be to charge by distance, and we do not — the rate is the same on the far west side as it is downtown, with no fee added at the end. The rates page lists every service.

Tell me about Fort Woof before I take my dog there.

It is at 751 Beach Street, 76111, inside Gateway Park on the east side — Fort Worth’s first off-leash dog park and still the best known. A 3.4-acre run for large dogs, a separate 1.6-acre run for small ones, agility courses, water fountains, shaded shelters and waste stations. Dog Fancy named it the number one dog park in the nation in 2006 and CityVoter called it the best in the Metroplex in 2009. Gates are open 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.

What are the rules and closures at Fort Woof?

Two closures to plan around: it shuts every Thursday for scheduled maintenance, and it can close after rain when the city judges the ground too saturated. On the rules — the small-dog side is for dogs under 40 pounds, puppies under four months are not permitted at all, and no food or drink is allowed inside the enclosure. Worth checking conditions before you drive over rather than after.

And ZBonz on the west side?

6950 W. Camp Bowie Boulevard, 76116 — the biggest of them. Ten fully irrigated acres built on the former Z. Boaz Golf Course, split into roughly seven acres for large dogs and three for small, with two shelters, various agility items, pet fountains and two aerated ponds. ZBonz closes every Wednesday for maintenance and, like Fort Woof, can close after heavy rain.

Will my sitter take my dog into an off-leash park?

No — not at Fort Woof, not at ZBonz, not anywhere. We keep dogs leashed on every paid visit, without exception. A sitter cannot reliably recall a dog she has known for a week off a crowded three-acre run, and food and treats are banned inside these enclosures anyway, which removes the one tool that might help. That session is a good one to take with your dog yourself.

Where do your Fort Worth dog walks usually happen?

On the Trinity Trails. The Tarrant Regional Water District, which runs the system, puts it at more than 100 miles of trail through 31 neighborhoods and 21 city parks, along the 2,000-plus acres TRWD oversees on the Trinity River. TRWD’s answer on dogs is short: welcome on a leash, and clean up after them. Our walkers particularly like the stretch near Clearfork and the section through Trinity Park.

We are in the TCU area. Is there a walk that does not need a drive?

Overton Park, 3500 Overton Park Drive East, 76109. It is a linear park of about 48.68 acres, roughly a mile long, and the city describes it as linking Tanglewood and Overton Park in the north to Foster Park in the south — shade, open lawn, trails and tennis courts. The Cassco Land Company deeded the original strip in 1959 out of the historic Edwards Ranch, the same ranch land Clearfork was later built on.

Can a dog be walked downtown or in the Stockyards?

On a leash, yes, though these are landmarks rather than parks. Sundance Square Plaza sits at 420 Main Street, 76102, and the Stockyards are north of downtown on the 76164 and 76106 line — both are places our sitters already know how to work a walk around. Panther Island Pavilion at 395 Purcey Street, 76102, makes a good cool-morning walk with the skyline behind you, but check the event calendar: the pavilion and the main sections of Trinity Trails nearby close for large events, and it hosts the city’s Fourth of July celebration.

Do you ever move my pet somewhere else?

No. Fort Worth clients get the same in-home service as everyone else — feeding, water, litter, medication, a leashed walk from your own door, real time with your animals, and a check of the house before the sitter locks up. There is no kennel, no daycare and no transport. Your pets stay on their own ground the whole time you are gone.

Can I meet whoever is assigned to me?

Yes, and it costs nothing. Before the first paid visit she comes to your house, meets the animals, walks the yard and the gate, looks at the alarm, and writes your routine down as you describe it. In a city where drive times vary this much, it also lets us confirm which of our sitters is genuinely closest to you.

Are your Fort Worth sitters employees, background-checked and insured?

All three. Every sitter is a W-2 employee of DFW Pet Sitting Services, cleared a background check before her first shift, is bonded, and is covered under our commercial liability insurance. We have more than 250 employees across the metroplex and none of them are contractors. With a marketplace freelancer, screening is whatever the platform decided to do and the liability question comes back to you.

Can your sitter give medication?

Yes — oral medication, insulin injections, sub-q fluids, eye drops and inhalers are all routine work. The drug, the dose, the timing and your veterinarian’s details are written into your file rather than left to memory, and if a dose has to hold to a specific hour we build the visit schedule around it instead of fitting it into a route.

What if my sitter has an emergency while I am traveling?

Another trained employee takes the visit and we contact you rather than leaving you to find out. Fort Worth is large, so this is exactly where having 250-plus employees earns its keep — there is depth on every side of the city. Your instructions are held centrally, so a substitute arrives knowing the entry, the portions and the details that matter.

Why not book a Rover or Wag sitter instead?

Because those are marketplaces of individual freelancers and we are a company with staff. We have worked Fort Worth since 2003, we employ and insure our sitters, we supervise the work, we monitor visits, and we have someone to send when a visit is at risk. The 4.9-star average across more than 500+ Google reviews is one accountable business being judged over two decades.

We’re Hiring Pet Sitters in Fort Worth

Love pets and live in the Fort Worth area? DFW Pet Sitting is hiring W-2 pet sitters and dog walkers throughout Fort Worth — including the Cultural District, Westover Hills, Southside, TCU area, North Fort Worth, Clearfork, and surrounding neighborhoods. We’re looking for reliable pet lovers with flexible schedules who can accommodate visits within 5 miles of their home. Apply on our jobs page.

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