Pet sitting and dog walking in Hurst since 2003

Looking for a Trusted Pet Sitter in Hurst?

Hurst is the heart of the HEB mid-cities — a commuter-friendly community with deep Texas roots, established neighborhoods, and the kind of relaxed lifestyle that makes it perfect for pet owners. Positioned right between Dallas and Fort Worth with easy highway access in every direction, Hurst residents are practical people who value reliability. That’s exactly what you should expect from your pet sitter.

DFW Pet Sitting has been caring for Hurst pets 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 Hurst area, usually within 5 miles of your front door.

You are not booking a stranger off a profile. The sitter assigned to your house comes out and meets your animals first, then keeps the job. Hurst is compact enough to drive across in a few minutes, so keeping one sitter on one house is straightforward rather than a scheduling favor.

Visits are recorded in our scheduling software as they happen, phones are answered 6:00am–11:00pm Central, and a manager is awake and reachable outside those hours. When a visit needs covering there is a set protocol and more than 250 employees across DFW to draw on.

Why Hurst Families Choose DFW Pet Sitting

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

Your sitter lives in the mid-cities. Our Hurst team covers Hurst, Bedford, Euless, Colleyville, North Richland Hills, and Southlake. Your sitter lives in the HEB area, not across the metroplex. 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 see a familiar face every time, and you never wonder who let themselves in.

Every visit is accounted for. The schedule is tracked live, so an absent check-in raises a flag with a manager within hours instead of surfacing days later. That supervision is the piece an individual sitter cannot offer.

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.

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. Bedford and Euless are literally next door, and our Colleyville, North Richland Hills, and Arlington teams are all 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 Hurst

Vacation & Travel Pet Sitting — A flight out of DFW or a car headed somewhere farther, the schedule at home does not move. Your Hurst sitter runs the day off your instructions: meals at the right hours, medication on time, walks, play, and the attention your animals expect. Dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, fish and small caged animals all stay in the house instead of a kennel.

Daily Dog Walking — Perfect for Hurst 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 Chisholm Park, along Pipeline Road, or in the neighborhoods off Precinct Line, your walker is nearby. Chisholm Park, Hurst Community Park, and Smith-Barfield Park are the usual leashed loops when your dog needs more than a backyard. Visits are 25 minutes.

Cat Sitting — A cat on a daily dose is not an exception here; it is most of the caseload. Insulin, sub-q fluids and inhalers are all routine, handled at your house on her clock. See how a 25-minute Hurst cat visit works.

Short-Notice & Holiday Coverage — 76053 and 76054 together are a short drive end to end, so a sitter is rarely far from a late request. Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two weeks that close out early. If your dates are already on the calendar, get them to us now rather than in December.

House Sitting & Home Checks — Mail, porch packages, lights, bins, plants, and a walk-through. Most Hurst clients add this onto pet visits rather than booking it alone — especially in the established neighborhoods along Pipeline Road, Precinct Line Road, and the residential streets near Chisholm Park and North East Mall, where an empty house is obvious to neighbors who have lived next door for years.

What Makes Us Different From Rover and Wag

Pipeline Road and Precinct Line at the wrong hour, older neighborhoods that do not read the way a map suggests, and a flight time that can move — that is not an assignment for whoever grabs it first on an app. The sitter who arrives is our employee, on payroll, backed by a company that has worked Hurst 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 Hurst

A cat does not need to be relocated in order to be looked after well. The Hurst sitters give oral medication, insulin injections, sub-q fluids, eye drops and inhalers without treating any of it as unusual. Each visit runs 25 minutes: water, the portion you measure, a clean box, a stretch of play, and a real look at her condition. A photo goes out afterward.

Sitters handle pills, insulin, sub-q fluids, eye drops, and inhalers. If a cat hides in a house along Pipeline Road, a Precinct Line ranch, or a home near Chisholm Park or North East Mall 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 cat, with two for kittens, seniors and cats on medication. Heaping up dry food and leaving one box to manage a holiday weekend is not something we will do, particularly when a flight out of DFW turns into two more nights than you planned.

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

Your Home’s Security Is Our Priority

We stay inconspicuous. Sitters do not wear branded clothing or drive marked cars, and nothing goes in your yard. Hurst neighborhoods are established and people know the usual rhythm of a block, so an unremarkable car is worth more than any signage.

The person coming and going looks like a relative or a friend, because nothing identifies her as a pet sitter. Your neighbors see ordinary traffic at the house, which is precisely what we want them to see.

This matters in Hurst, where homes are in established, long-standing neighborhoods along Pipeline Road, Precinct Line Road, and the residential areas near Chisholm Park and North East Mall. Hurst is a community where people have lived for years — neighbors know each other and notice when something’s different. A familiar, low-key presence at your home while you’re away fits right in. Discretion isn’t a perk — it’s standard.

Meet our sitters

You will meet one of our dog walkers or pet sitters who live in the Hurst area — 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.

Our Hurst sitters work only within a 5-mile radius of where they live, covering Hurst and the HEB mid-cities. The person you meet is the only person entering your home.

What clients say

Hurst 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, Hurst clients among them. Read the reviews, then meet your sitter in person.

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

Pet-Friendly Spots Our Hurst Sitters Love

Hurst packs seventeen parks into a city you can cross in fifteen minutes, and a good number of them are built for walking rather than watching. These are the ones our sitters use:

Chisholm Park — 2200 Norwood Drive, and the anchor of the whole system. Athletic fields, a basketball court, three large picnic pavilions, two playgrounds, an aquatics center, restrooms, open green space, and a walking trail that loops the pond. The pond is part of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Neighborhood Fishin’ program, one of only five stocked ponds in the DFW area — catfish through the summer, rainbow trout through the winter — and the bank access is genuinely good. It is a rare park where you can sit and fish with a dog settled beside you. Smoking is limited to the paved parking areas under Municipal Code 19-3. Our sitters’ first pick in Hurst, and we keep dogs leashed here.

Hurst Dog Park — 900 TCC Road, tucked behind the Hurst Animal Services and Adoption Center. Completely fenced, with three separate runs that divide large dogs from small ones. Every run has its own water station with a dog bowl, a bottle filler for the human, and — the detail that wins people over — a hose for washing off a dog who found the mud. Waste stations are spread through each run. Open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. most days, and 1 to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays, because the mornings are set aside for mowing. Weather closures go out on the city’s rainout line at 817-788-7323. The city asks visitors to fill in any hole they find, since digging is a genuine hazard for dogs and people both. On the clock our sitters keep every dog leashed, so we walk the perimeter rather than turning dogs loose inside.

Hurst Community Park, Smith-Barfield Park, and Vivagene Copeland Park — The three we rotate through when a dog needs a change of scenery. Hurst Community Park at 601 Precinct Line Road has the most open ground, plus sand volleyball and a walking trail. Smith-Barfield at 640 Pleasantview is the best-equipped of the three, with tennis, pickleball, restrooms, and a trail. Vivagene Copeland at 501 Pecan Drive is the quiet one, shaded and rarely crowded, which suits a nervous dog or a senior who would rather not meet anybody.

The North East Mall corridor — Not a park, but it is how most of Hurst navigates. If you live in the streets off Precinct Line, Pipeline, or Grapevine Highway, this is the landmark we will use when we talk through your route at the meet-and-greet, and there are patios nearby if you want to end a walk sitting down.

Ready to meet your Hurst 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.

Hurst Neighborhoods We Serve

Hurst is compact, which is exactly why the sitter who covers it can genuinely know it. Two ZIP codes, 76053 in the south and 76054 in the north, and a street grid most people learn in a week. Here is how we think about the city when we assign your visits.

North of Harwood, around Chisholm Park and Norwood Drive (76054) — The established northern half, with Chisholm Park at 2200 Norwood as its center of gravity and Mayfair Park a little further down the same street. Larger lots, older trees, and the quietest walking in the city. Rickel Park on Bluebonnet and Wan-Ka-Kani Park on Shady Lane sit in the middle of these blocks.

The Precinct Line corridor — Precinct Line Road runs the length of Hurst and anchors three city facilities: Hurst Community Park at 601, Library Park at 901, and the Hurst Athletic Complex at 2104. If you live off Precinct Line you are never more than a few minutes from open ground, and your sitter is already driving it.

Pipeline Road and the older south side (76053) — Heritage Village Plaza sits at 841 West Pipeline with the concert stage and the public art, and the residential blocks behind it hold Jaycee-Baker Park on Belmont, Vivagene Copeland Park on Pecan Drive, and Windmill Park on Cheryl Avenue. Lots of long-time owners here, and a lot of cats.

Echo Hills, Bellaire, and Redbud — Three pockets each built around their own small park: Echo Hills Park on Heneretta, Bellaire Park on Greenway Drive, and Redbud Park on Redbud Drive. These are walk-to-the-park neighborhoods, which is why midday dog walking is our most requested service in them.

Around North East Mall and the TCC Road area — The commercial heart of the city, and also where the Hurst Dog Park and the Animal Services and Adoption Center sit on TCC Road. Apartments and townhomes here mean a lot of dogs with no yard, and a lot of clients who need somebody at midday every weekday.

One thing worth saying plainly: Hurst’s leash ordinance, Section 4-40, makes it unlawful to let a dog run at large anywhere in the city, and it exempts cats. Our sitters walk every dog leashed regardless, but it helps to know the rule is not just our preference.

How It Works — Three Easy Steps

Step 1: Get in touch
Call (214) 574-7387, text (214) 360-7367, or book online. Tell us your address, your pets, and the days you need covered. The texting line is monitored day and night.

Step 2: Meet your sitter, free
We match you with a sitter who lives near you and set up an in-home consultation at no charge. You will meet the person, walk them through feeding, medication, and where the leash lives, and hand over a key. No obligation, and no commitment to book.

Step 3: We take it from there
Your sitter follows the plan you set, and management watches every visit in real time. Photos come to you after each visit, so you see how the day actually went rather than taking our word for it.

Nearby cities this team also covers

Hurst, Bedford, and Euless are the HEB — three city names on one continuous street grid, where a sitter can cross two city lines on a single route without noticing. We staff them as one area for that reason. The same team also works North Richland Hills to the north, Colleyville and Grapevine to the east, Keller and Southlake beyond them, and Arlington and Irving to the south. Each of those has its own page. Coverage follows your address rather than the city line, so call with the address and we will tell you which sitter is closest.

Frequently Asked Questions About Pet Sitting in Hurst

Do you cover all of Hurst?

Yes — 76053 and 76054, which between them account for the whole city. Hurst is compact enough that you can drive across it in about fifteen minutes, so there is no far corner our sitters struggle to reach. The same team covers the neighboring mid-cities linked above, which is why the travel time between visits stays short even on a busy day.

What will it cost?

One pet, 25 minutes, $25. Each additional pet is $3, and dog walking plans open at $23. Our price list is the same in Hurst as it is anywhere else we work, with no fee added at the end and no charge for mileage inside the city. The rates page has every service listed, or ring (214) 574-7387 and ask for a straight quote.

Which park do your sitters use most?

Chisholm Park at 2200 Norwood Drive, without much competition. It is the anchor of a system of seventeen parks and it has a walking trail that loops the pond, plus athletic fields, a basketball court, three large picnic pavilions, two playgrounds, an aquatics center, restrooms and real open green space. We keep dogs leashed there, which the trail is well suited to anyway.

Is it true you can fish at Chisholm Park?

You can, and it is unusual enough to be worth knowing about. The pond is part of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Neighborhood Fishin’ program — one of only five stocked ponds in the DFW area — with catfish through the summer and rainbow trout through the winter, and genuinely good bank access. It is one of the rare parks where you can sit and fish with a dog settled next to you. Smoking is limited to the paved parking areas under Municipal Code 19-3.

What should I know before taking my own dog to the Hurst Dog Park?

It is at 900 TCC Road, behind the Hurst Animal Services and Adoption Center — fully fenced, with three separate runs dividing large dogs from small. Every run has a water station with a dog bowl, a bottle filler for you, and a hose for rinsing off a muddy dog. Hours are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. most days but 1 to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays, because the mornings are reserved for mowing. Weather closures are announced on the city rainout line, 817-788-7323.

Will my sitter turn my dog loose in the runs?

No — our staff keep every dog leashed while they are on the clock, so we walk the perimeter rather than going inside the enclosures. That off-leash time is yours to spend with your own dog. One request from the city worth passing along if you do go: fill in any hole you come across, because digging is a real hazard for dogs and people both.

My dog gets bored on the same route. Do you vary the walks?

We rotate. Hurst Community Park at 601 Precinct Line Road, Smith-Barfield Park and Vivagene Copeland Park are the three we cycle through when a dog needs a change of scenery, and with seventeen parks inside a small city there is always somewhere else to go. Tell us at the meet-and-greet whether your dog does better with a familiar loop or a new one, and we will note the preference.

Where do the visits take place?

At your home, always. Nobody drops a pet off with us and nothing is boarded. The sitter comes in, feeds, refreshes water, deals with litter or the yard, gives medication, walks the dog from your own door, spends real time with the animals, and secures the house on the way out. Your pets stay on their own territory the entire time.

Is the first meeting free?

It is. Before you book a single paid visit, the sitter comes out to your house, meets your pets, walks the property, looks at the alarm panel, and writes your routine down as you explain it. You are sizing her up while she does it, and that is intentional. There is no fee and no obligation on either side.

Are the sitters on your payroll, and who carries the insurance?

W-2 employees, all of them, each background-checked before hire, bonded, and covered by our commercial liability insurance. We do not hire contractors or pass work to third parties. If something in your home is damaged during a visit, our insurance handles it — you are not left negotiating with an individual.

Can you handle medication and injections?

Yes. Our sitters give oral medication, insulin injections, sub-q fluids, eye drops and inhalers as a matter of routine, and the details go in writing into your file — drug, dose, timing, vet name and number. When the schedule is strict we set the visit windows around the doses rather than squeezing the doses into a route.

What happens if my sitter has an emergency?

Another trained employee steps in and we contact you rather than leaving you to work it out. Because this team covers a cluster of small adjoining cities, someone qualified is almost always close by. Your care instructions are held centrally, so the person who arrives already knows how to get in and what your animals expect.

How are you different from Rover or Wag?

Those are marketplaces where you hire an individual freelancer and hope for the best. We are an established company with W-2 employees, active management, monitored visits, emergency backup and our own commercial insurance, and we have been doing it in these cities since 2003. The 4.9-star average from more than 500+ Google reviews is one company’s track record rather than a collection of separate profiles.

We’re Hiring Pet Sitters in Hurst

Love pets and live in the Hurst area? DFW Pet Sitting is hiring W-2 pet sitters and dog walkers in Hurst, Bedford, Euless, Colleyville, North Richland Hills, and surrounding areas. We’re looking for reliable pet lovers with flexible schedules who can accommodate visits within 5 miles of their home — Pipeline Road, Precinct Line, Chisholm Park, Hurst Community Park, North East Mall, and nearby. Apply on our jobs page.