Pet sitting and dog walking in Fort Worth since 2003

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 branch 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’re not an app. We’re not a marketplace. When you book with us, you’ll meet your assigned pet sitter in person before your first service. That person becomes your sitter — the same face every time, someone your pets will recognize and trust.

Phones are answered 6:00am–11:00pm Central. A manager is on call 24/7 if a visit needs backup. We monitor every single visit through our pet sitting software. If something comes up, we have a full emergency backup protocol with 250+ employees across DFW ready to step in.

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 branch covers most Fort Worth zip codes, along with nearby areas in Tarrant County. 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 get consistency, and you get peace of mind. Alarm codes, gate codes, and spare-key instructions stay with that one employee.

We monitor every visit. Our management team tracks every scheduled visit in real time. If a sitter hasn’t checked in, we know within hours — not days. Nothing falls through the cracks. Plus, the on-call manager monitors each pet sitter’s activity, and we ensure the schedule is followed.

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 branches provide additional backup depth. With 250+ employees across DFW, your pets’ care is never interrupted.

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 branch already covers. Visits are 25 minutes.

Vacation & Travel Pet Sitting — Whether you’re flying out of DFW Airport or heading out on a road trip, your Fort Worth sitter will follow your pets’ exact routine — feeding times, medications, walks, playtime, and all the belly rubs. We handle dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, fish, and small caged animals. No need to board your pets in an unfamiliar kennel.

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 — Cats hate leaving home, and they don’t need to. Our Fort Worth cat sitters specialize in feline care, including medication administration, insulin shots, sub-q fluids, and asthma inhalers. See how a 25-minute Fort Worth cat visit works.

Short-Notice & Holiday Coverage — Because our sitters live locally, we can often accommodate last-minute requests. Holiday availability is managed well in advance to make sure Fort Worth families are always covered. Thanksgiving and Christmas fill first. Call if you already have travel dates.

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, Ridglea, Tanglewood, Fairmount, Clearfork, and the TCU area, where an empty house is obvious.

What Makes Us Different From Rover and Wag

A Westover Hills gate code, a Fairmount Craftsman alarm, a Clearfork backyard on the Trinity, and a DFW Airport itinerary that can shift an hour are not a job for a stranger with a profile. You are hiring a managed W-2 employee of a company that has sat pets in Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth

Cats hate leaving home, and they don’t need to. Our Fort Worth cat sitters specialize in feline care, including medication administration, insulin shots, sub-q fluids, and asthma inhalers. A visit is 25 minutes: fresh water, food the way you portion it, a scooped box, play, and a look at how your cat is actually doing. You get a photo.

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.

Once a day is the minimum for a healthy adult. Kittens, seniors, and medical cats need two. We will not leave a pile of food and a full box over a long holiday weekend — especially when a DFW Airport trip or a weekend on the road turns into two extra nights.

Your Home’s Security Is Our Priority

We take a different approach from most pet sitting companies. Our sitters don’t wear branded uniforms or drive marked vehicles. There are no signs in your yard announcing that you’re away.

Your pet sitter looks like they could be a family member or neighbor stopping by. Nobody in your neighborhood will know you’re traveling. We don’t want to advertise at your expense — we want your house to look like someone is home.

This matters in Fort Worth — whether you’re in a ranch-style home in Westover Hills, a historic Craftsman in Fairmount, a newer build in Clearfork, or a family home in Wedgwood or Ridglea. 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 — Westover Hills, Ridglea, Tanglewood, Arlington Heights, Monticello, and the neighborhoods surrounding the Kimbell Art Museum and Fort Worth Zoo. A hub for our Fort Worth sitters.

Southside & Fairmount — Historic neighborhoods with a growing community of young pet owners. Near Magnolia Avenue and the South Main district. Sundance Square and the Stockyards are the downtown landmarks sitters already know how to work around on a walk.

TCU Area & Wedgwood — University-adjacent neighborhoods where families and professionals need reliable pet care and dog walking. Overton Park is the usual leashed loop when a TCU-area dog needs more than the block.

North Fort Worth & Alliance — Newer developments and growing communities north of downtown. Connected to our Keller and Southlake branches for seamless backup.

Clearfork & Trinity River Corridor — Beautiful area along the river with trail access that our dog walkers love.

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 in the office handle scheduling. A manager is on call 24/7 if a visit needs a backup sitter from our 250+ staff. 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. Marles 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, Westover Hills, Ridglea, Fairmount, the TCU area, Wedgwood, Clearfork, North Fort Worth, and Alliance. 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. That is the company listing, not a Fort Worth storefront. We do not have a Fort Worth office. Read the reviews, then meet your sitter in person.

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

Fort Worth’s Best Spots for Dogs

Fort Worth’s parks, river trails, and west-side neighborhoods make it a paradise for pet owners. Here are the spots our sitters recommend:

Fort Woof Dog Park — Fort Worth’s first off-leash dog park, and still one of the best. Two large fenced areas — one for big dogs, one for small — with benches, water stations, and poop stations throughout. Located east of downtown inside Gateway Park. A reminder: all dogs must be up to date on vaccinations. 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 — Over 100 miles of paved and unpaved trails running along the Trinity River through the heart of Fort Worth. Perfect for longer dog walks with water access points along the way. 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 — A popular off-leash park in south Fort Worth near Hulen Mall. Separate large and small dog areas, shaded seating, and a fun community atmosphere. Great alternative to Fort Woof if you’re on the south side. Same rule: we don’t do off-leash parks on the clock. You can take that session together.

Panther Island Pavilion — While not a dog park per se, this area along the Trinity River is a fantastic spot for leashed walks with your dog, especially on a cool morning. Beautiful downtown Fort Worth skyline views.

Overton Park — A TCU-area favorite for a leashed neighborhood walk: shade, open lawn, and a route that doesn’t require a drive across town.

The Stockyards & Sundance Square — Landmarks, not off-leash parks. 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.

The most important thing is: get out, and enjoy Fort Worth with your dog. We also regularly serve nearby Southlake, Keller, Arlington, Bedford, Hurst, Euless, and Colleyville. Coverage follows your address, not the map. Call and we’ll match you with the closest sitter regardless of the city line.

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

How much does pet sitting cost in Fort Worth?

A standard drop-in visit is $25 for 25 minutes, one pet. Extra pet is $3. Dog walking plans start at $23. We’re transparent about pricing — unlike apps that add service fees on top, our price is your price. See the rates page or call (214) 574-7387.

Do I get to meet my pet sitter before booking?

Absolutely. Every new client gets a free in-person meet-and-greet with their assigned Fort Worth pet sitter. You’ll walk through your home together, go over your pets’ routines, show where supplies are kept, and make sure everyone — including your pets — is comfortable.

Do you have a Fort Worth office I can walk into?

No. Fort Worth is a city we serve, not a storefront. There is no Fort Worth street address, no lobby, and no map pin for a branch. Sitters travel to clients’ homes. Your assigned sitter comes to your home in the Cultural District, Westover Hills, Ridglea, Tanglewood, Fairmount, the TCU area, Wedgwood, Clearfork, North Fort Worth, Alliance, or wherever you live in Fort Worth. Phones are answered 6:00am–11:00pm Central. A manager is on call 24/7 if a visit needs backup.

Are your Fort Worth pet sitters background-checked?

Yes. Every employee undergoes a thorough background check before they’re hired. They’re also bonded and covered under our company’s commercial liability insurance. We don’t use independent contractors.

What happens if my pet sitter has an emergency?

We have a documented emergency replacement protocol. Our manager is notified immediately, contacts you, and assigns a qualified backup sitter from the Fort Worth area. Our nearby Southlake, Keller, and Arlington branches provide additional backup depth. With 250+ employees across DFW, your pets’ care is never interrupted.

Can you give my pet medication?

Yes. Our sitters are trained to administer oral medications, insulin injections, sub-q fluids, eye drops, and asthma inhalers. We’ll go over the medication routine during your meet-and-greet so the person who shows up already knows the cabinet, the fridge, and the cat who hides in a Ridglea or Westover Hills home.

Can my dog walker take my dog to Fort Woof or Trinity Trails?

If you’d like a leashed park walk, yes. Fort Worth has incredible outdoor options, and our walkers love taking advantage of them. During your meet-and-greet, you can discuss your preferred walking routes — whether that’s a neighborhood loop, Trinity Trails, Trinity Park, Overton Park, Panther Island Pavilion, or the stretch near Clearfork. We don’t do off-leash parks on the clock — even at Fort Woof or ZBonz. If you want off-leash time there, that’s a visit you do together. We customize to your dog’s needs and energy level.

I live on the edge of Fort Worth near Keller/Southlake/Arlington. Can you still serve me?

Yes. We have dedicated branches in Southlake, Keller, Arlington, Bedford, Hurst, Euless, and Colleyville — all bordering Fort Worth. We’ll match you with the closest sitter regardless of which branch they’re technically in. Call us and we’ll figure out the best fit.

Do you offer overnight pet sitting in Fort Worth?

We offer extended visits and can customize a schedule that works for your pets’ needs. Call (214) 574-7387 or contact us to discuss overnight options for your specific situation.

How is DFW Pet Sitting different from Rover or Wag?

Rover and Wag are marketplace apps where you hire individual freelancers. We’re an established company with W-2 employees, professional management, visit monitoring, emergency backup protocols, and commercial insurance. Your sitter is vetted, trained, and supervised by our team — not just reviewed by strangers on an app.

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.