Pet sitting and dog walking in Highland Park since 2003

Looking for a Trusted Pet Sitter in Highland Park?

Highland Park is not a Dallas neighborhood. It is an incorporated town of about 8,900 people, 2.26 square miles, with its own Department of Public Safety, its own Town Hall on Drexel, its own library and its own animal control — and the expectations that come with living here extend to every service you hire, including pet care. You’re not interested in a random person from an app showing up at your home. You want a vetted professional who understands the level of discretion, reliability, and attention to detail that Highland Park homeowners require.

DFW Pet Sitting has been serving Highland Park and the Park Cities since 2003. Every pet sitter and dog walker we assign 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 Dallas area, usually within 5 miles of your front door.

We are not an app and not a marketplace. You meet the person who will be letting herself into your house before a single paid visit is booked, and that same employee keeps the assignment afterward. Because the same sitters work both Park Cities, that continuity is the point: your animals see one familiar face, and your household deals with one person rather than a rota.

Phones are answered 6:00am–11:00pm Central, and outside those hours a manager is reachable to arrange backup rather than an answering service that takes a message. One Highland Park specific: because the entire town is a single ZIP code shared with University Park and a piece of Dallas, a dispatcher working from ZIP alone can send someone to the wrong municipality entirely. Our office dispatches from the street name, and the Town’s own Department of Public Safety non-emergency line is in every sitter’s file.

Why Highland Park Families Choose DFW Pet Sitting

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

Your sitter is local. Sitters assigned in Highland Park live nearby — usually within 5 miles of your front door — not across the metroplex. University Park, Turtle Creek, and Dallas have their own pages. 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 keep their routine, and you always know who holds your key. In Highland Park, where trust and privacy are paramount, this matters more than anywhere.

We monitor every visit through our scheduling software, so the office can see that a Highland Park visit actually happened and when. If a check-in does not land, someone calls the sitter before you ever notice. With 250+ employees across the Metroplex there is always a second person who can be re-routed, and because the town is compact, a backup here is a short drive rather than a rescheduled day.

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 that protects your home and your pets.

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. Nearby coverage in University Park, Turtle Creek, and Dallas means backup is minutes away. 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 Highland Park

Vacation & Travel Pet Sitting — Highland Park families travel frequently — whether it’s a business trip, a family vacation, or a weekend away. Your 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 Park Cities families with puppies, senior dogs, or busy professional schedules. Your dog walker commits to a consistent weekly schedule — same person, same times. We’re not “Uber for dog walkers.” Whether you live along Beverly Drive, Armstrong Avenue, or Lakeside Drive, your walker knows the neighborhood. Lakeside Park and Douglas Park are the usual loops when your dog needs more than a backyard. Visits are 25 minutes.

Cat Sitting — Nothing about caring for a cat requires moving the cat. Medication, injections, fluids and inhalers get handled quietly, in the same rooms your cat already considers its own. See how a 25-minute Highland Park cat visit works.

Extended Home Care — Many Highland Park clients ask their sitters to go beyond basic pet care: bringing in mail and packages, rotating lights, watering plants, adjusting blinds, and maintaining a lived-in appearance. We treat your home with the same care we give your pets.

Short-Notice & Holiday Coverage — Highland Park is 2.26 square miles, so “local” here means a sitter who is genuinely minutes away rather than a freeway drive. That is why last-minute requests are usually workable. Holidays are the exception: Thanksgiving through New Year’s fills early in this town, and the Fourth of July fills too because of the parade traffic. Book those in advance and we will hold the slot.

House Sitting & Home Checks — Mail and porch packages, lights, bins, plants, and a walk-through. Most Highland Park clients add this onto pet visits rather than booking it alone — especially on Beverly Drive, Lakeside Drive, or the blocks around Highland Park Village, where an empty home is obvious.

What Makes Us Different From Rover and Wag

Alarm codes on Beverly Drive, a Lakeside Drive walk, and a Highland Park Village weekend 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 Highland Park 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 Highland Park

Highland Park has been its own incorporated town since 1913, and a cat here is no more interested in a car ride than a cat anywhere else. The sitters who cover these streets give oral medication, insulin, sub-q fluids, eye drops and inhalers as ordinary parts of a visit.

A visit is 25 minutes: fresh water, food portioned the way you portion it, a scooped box, some play, and an honest look at how the cat is actually doing. You get a photo. In Highland Park we also do the mail and the packages by default, because a full box on a Drexel or Beverly porch is the clearest possible signal that nobody is home.

Sitters handle pills, insulin, sub-q fluids, eye drops, and inhalers. If a cat hides in a Beverly Drive spare bedroom, a Lakeside Drive study, or a house off Armstrong Avenue, they sit on the floor and wait. They do not leave without seeing the cat.

Once a day is the floor for a healthy adult cat. Kittens, seniors and anything on medication need two. We will not leave a mountain of dry food and a full box over a long weekend and call it coverage, and we are especially firm about that in this town, where a Love Field or DAL-adjacent trip has a habit of turning into two extra nights.

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

Your Home’s Security Is Our Priority

Nothing about a visit is advertised. Our sitters wear no branded clothing and drive nothing marked, and we do not put a sign in your yard. On these blocks, where a housekeeper, a lawn crew and a pool service may all come through in the same week, the aim is that your sitter reads as one more expected car in the driveway rather than a notice that the house is empty.

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

In Highland Park, this isn’t optional — it’s essential. Your home is a significant asset, and the neighborhood warrants the highest level of discretion. Our sitters understand this. They blend in, follow your instructions precisely, and maintain your home’s appearance as if you never left. Whether you’re on Beverly Drive, Preston Road, or Mockingbird Lane, discretion isn’t a perk — it’s standard. Alarm codes, smart locks, cameras, and gate codes stay with the one assigned person.

Neighborhoods We Serve in Highland Park

Highland Park is a town, not a Dallas neighborhood and not part of University Park. It was incorporated in 1913, it covers 2.26 square miles, and roughly 8,900 people live in it, about three miles north of downtown Dallas. The detail that matters most for anyone who walks a dog here: when the town was laid out, 20 percent of the developed land was set aside for park space, and the Town still says that tradition shapes its character. That is why a place this small has eight parks, and why almost every block is within a few minutes of one.

The whole town sits in a single ZIP code — 75205 — which it shares with University Park and with a small slice of the City of Dallas. All three print “Dallas, TX” on the envelope.

Lakeside Drive and the creek side

Lakeside Park at 4601 Lakeside Drive is the reason people move here. Fourteen-plus acres along Turtle Creek, between Beverly Drive and Armstrong Parkway, with walking paths, benches the whole way, the bridge on top of the Turtle Creek Dam, the Teddy Bear statues and the Read Memorial. The Town finished a round of improvements in 2024. Duck feeding is an official amenity, which is worth knowing if your dog has opinions about ducks — ours mostly do. Back yards on Lakeside Drive run down toward the water, and this is the loop our walkers use when a dog needs more than a lap of the block.

Beverly Drive, Armstrong Avenue and Douglas Avenue

These are the wide, shaded, almost entirely residential streets that make up the middle of town. Douglas Park at 4500 Douglas Avenue, between Armstrong and Bordeaux, was redesigned in 2021 with a single path running the length of it — the cleanest short out-and-back in Highland Park. Fairfax Park and Abbott Park fill in the blocks east of Preston. There is also a Davis Park here, which is a genuine trap: University Park has a Davis Park too, at 4519 Drane Drive. When you book, give us the street. We will not guess.

Prather Park and the Town Hall blocks

Prather Park sits at 4500 Drexel Avenue, across Euclid Avenue from Town Hall, with paths and benches along Hackberry Creek and a pickleball court tucked in among the big trees. Flippen Park is a block-sized pocket at 4421 North Versailles Avenue — a gazebo, a fountain and a reflecting pool, surrounded on all sides by houses. Residents can reserve the gazebo for weddings, so if a visit lands on a Saturday afternoon in spring, your sitter may be walking past one. Connor Park completes the town’s eight.

Highland Park Village, Preston Road and Mockingbird Lane

The town’s commercial edges. Parking around the Village is tight and turnover is watched, so a sitter who lingers at the curb gets noticed. Preston Road and Mockingbird Lane are the boundaries where Highland Park hands off to University Park to the north and to Dallas to the south and west. The Turtle Creek corridor and the Katy Trail begin just past the southern line.

Two Highland Park rules worth knowing before you book

First, the Town licenses pets. Each household is limited to three adult dogs and cats combined, an animal counts as an adult at three months, and every pet needs an annual Town license with proof of rabies vaccination on file. The registration fee shows up on your next water utility bill. Only dogs, cats and small animals such as fish are permitted; the ordinance prohibits wild animals, fowl, cattle, swine, goats, apes, monkeys and exotics. Second, the Town publishes guidance on urban wildlife including coyotes and bobcats. Both are real here, both are most active at dawn and dusk, and both are a reason a small dog on a long retractable leash at 6 a.m. is a bad idea. Our sitters walk short-leash in this town as a matter of policy, not preference.

Meet Our Highland Park Pet Sitters

You meet your assigned Highland Park-area sitter 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.

Our Highland Park sitters work only within a 5-mile radius of where they live, covering Beverly Drive, Armstrong Avenue, Lakeside Drive, Preston Road, Mockingbird Lane, and the blocks around Highland Park Village. The person you meet is the only person entering your home.

What clients say

Highland Park families review us on the same Google listing as the rest of DFW — 4.9 stars from 500+ reviews. Those reviews cover the whole company, Highland Park visits included. Read the reviews, then meet your sitter in person.

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Highland Park’s Best Spots for Pet Owners

Highland Park and the surrounding Park Cities are among the most dog-friendly neighborhoods in Dallas. Here are the spots our sitters recommend:

Lakeside Park — A beautiful park along Turtle Creek in the heart of Highland Park. Shaded walking paths, manicured grounds, and a peaceful setting. One of our sitters’ favorite spots for daily dog walks — and one of the prettiest walks in all of Dallas.

Douglas Park — 4500 Douglas Avenue, between Armstrong Avenue and Bordeaux Avenue. The Town redesigned it in 2021 and ran a single path the length of the park, which makes it the cleanest short out-and-back in this part of town. Landscaped, quiet, and rarely crowded.

Katy Trail — Just south of Highland Park, this iconic 3.5-mile rails-to-trails path connects through Uptown and Knox-Henderson. Great for longer leashed walks and one of the most popular dog-walking trails in Dallas. Our walkers use this trail regularly. Details on the Dallas page.

Where Park Cities dogs go off leash — for off-leash time, Highland Park dogs generally end up in City of Dallas parks, and Dallas Park and Recreation runs eleven of them. The two most convenient from here are Barry Annino Dog Park (Bark Park Central) in Deep Ellum and the White Rock Lake dog park at Mockingbird Point, 8000 Mockingbird Lane, which has separate large and small paddocks, dog washes and a gated dog launch into the water. Check before you drive: Mockingbird Point closes every Monday for maintenance, NorthBark in far North Dallas closes every Tuesday, and every Dallas dog park closes on rain days. The city’s Dog Park Hotline and Rain Out Line is (214) 614-6711. Dallas rules cap you at three dogs at once, ban food and treats inside the fence, and require pinch, prong and spiked collars to come off at the gate. We keep client dogs leashed while we’re on the clock, so the off-leash outing stays yours.

Highland Park Village — While dogs can’t go inside most shops, the walkable outdoor area is a beautiful spot for a leashed stroll. Some restaurants on the periphery offer pet-friendly patio seating.

The same sitters also work University Park, Turtle Creek, and Dallas. Town limits do not change who gets assigned to you. Call and the closest available sitter is the one you get.

Ready to meet your Highland Park 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 Highland Park

Is Highland Park part of Dallas?

No. Highland Park is its own incorporated town — it has been since 1913 — with its own government, its own police and fire service and its own park system, all inside 2.26 square miles about three miles north of downtown Dallas. Roughly 8,900 people live here. The confusion comes from the mail: the town shares ZIP code 75205 with University Park and a small slice of the City of Dallas, so every envelope reads “Dallas, TX” regardless.

You cover University Park too. Which page should I be reading?

Either, honestly — the same sitters work both towns and the pricing is identical. We keep them separate because they are separate municipalities with different park systems and different street patterns, and because people here do not treat the two as interchangeable. If your address is north of Lovers Lane or near SMU, the University Park page will look more familiar. Turtle Creek residents should start on the Turtle Creek page.

What do you charge in Highland Park?

The same as everywhere else we work: $25 for a 25-minute visit with one pet, $3 for each additional pet, and dog walking plans from $23. We do not price by neighborhood, and we do not quote a Park Cities rate. Anyone who charges you more because of your address is charging for the address. The rates page has the full list.

Can I meet the sitter first?

Yes — free, at your house, before anything is booked. She will meet the animals, walk the yard and the gate, look at the alarm panel, and get your instructions in her own handwriting. It also lets you take the measure of the person who will be alone in your home. We would rather you spend twenty minutes on that now than wonder about it from a hotel later.

Discretion matters to us. Who actually comes into the house?

One of our own W-2 employees, background-checked before she was hired, bonded and covered by our commercial liability insurance. Not a subcontractor, not a stranger who answered a listing. We do not post photographs of client homes, we do not discuss whose house we are in, and we do not leave anything at the door that signals the owners are away. On a 2.26-square-mile town where people know each other, that restraint is part of the service.

Do our pets have to leave the house?

Never. Every visit happens in your home — feeding, walks from your own front door, litter, medication, water, playtime and a look around the property. Nothing is boarded, nothing is transported, and your dog is not put into a group with animals we do not know. Pets keep their routine, their bed and their territory, which is most of the reason in-home sitting works.

What is the best walk in Highland Park?

Lakeside Park, at 4601 Lakeside Drive along Turtle Creek — fourteen-plus acres of shaded path and manicured creek frontage, and the walk our sitters mention first. When the town was platted, twenty percent of the developed land was set aside as park space, and the Town still credits that decision for the character of the place. It is why somewhere this small supports eight parks and why almost no block here is more than a few minutes from one. Wherever the route goes, the dog is on a leash for the whole visit. We do not walk dogs off leash here or anywhere else, and that is not a setting you can turn off.

Is there somewhere quieter for a dog who does not like crowds?

Douglas Park, at 4500 Douglas Avenue between Armstrong and Bordeaux. The Town redesigned it in 2021 and ran a single path the length of the park, which makes it the cleanest short out-and-back in this part of town — landscaped, quiet and rarely busy. For a reactive or elderly dog it is a much easier outing than a trail with cyclists on it.

Can your sitter give injections and medication?

Yes. Oral medication, insulin, sub-q fluids, eye drops and inhalers are all standard for our staff, and we take the details in writing — drug, dose, timing, and your veterinarian’s name and number — instead of trusting a verbal handoff. If the schedule is strict, we build the visit times around the doses rather than fitting the doses into a route.

What happens if our sitter cannot make a visit?

We cover it with another trained employee and you are told before you have a chance to wonder. The Park Cities sit in the middle of our densest coverage, so a substitute is close by. Your pets’ instructions are stored with us, not carried around in one person’s head, so whoever steps in already knows which door to use and how the alarm is armed.

We have an alarm system, a housekeeper and a lawn crew. Can you work around all that?

That is the normal situation in these houses, and it is worth twenty minutes at the meet-and-greet. We log alarm codes and how you want the system left, note which door to use, and learn the days other people are on the property so a sitter is not disarming a panel while a lawn crew has the side gate open. If you would rather we avoid overlapping with your housekeeper entirely, we schedule around her.

How is this different from hiring through Rover or Wag?

Those platforms connect you to an individual and then step back. We are a Dallas-area company that has been doing this since 2003, we employ our sitters, we supervise them, and we answer for the visit if something goes wrong. There is a manager to call, a backup sitter to send and an insurance policy behind the work — none of which exists when the arrangement is between you and a freelancer.

We’re Hiring Pet Sitters in Highland Park

Love pets and live near the Park Cities? DFW Pet Sitting is hiring W-2 pet sitters and dog walkers in Highland Park. We’re looking for reliable, discreet pet lovers with flexible schedules who can accommodate visits within 5 miles of their home. Nearby University Park, Turtle Creek, and Dallas have their own pages. Visit our jobs page for details.

Nearby areas we cover

We also have local pet sitters living in University Park, Turtle Creek, Dallas, Lake Highlands, Addison and Richardson. Every sitter works within about five miles of home, so you get the same person on every visit. See all 50 cities on our pet sitting service areas page.