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- $25 for 25 minutes, one pet
- Extra pet $3
- Dog walking plans from $23
- Free in-home meet-and-greet
We cover Sachse, including Woodbridge off SH-78, Heritage Park near Hudson Drive, Jackson Hills and Jackson Meadows along Sachse Road, Pleasant Valley Estates, Richfield Estates, Cedar Creek Estates, Peachtree Estates, Hunters Ridge, and Sachse Farms.
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.
Looking for a Trusted Pet Sitter in Sachse?
Sachse (pronounced “SAK-see”) is one of those DFW suburbs that feels like a well-kept secret — a tight-knit community of about 30,000 tucked between Garland, Wylie, Murphy, and Rowlett with over 90 acres of maintained parks, highly rated schools in both Garland ISD and Wylie ISD, and a dog-friendly culture that’s hard to beat east of US-75. It’s also one of the most underserved cities for pet sitting. Most apps lump Sachse in with Garland or Wylie and send sitters who may not know a Woodbridge address from a Jackson Hills cul-de-sac.
DFW Pet Sitting has had sitters in Sachse since 2003. Every pet sitter and dog walker we assign is a W-2 employee of our company — not an independent contractor, not a gig worker, and not someone who signed up on an app last week. They live in and around Sachse, usually within five miles of your home, so they know your community, your parks, and your neighborhood streets.
Why Sachse Pet Owners Choose DFW Pet Sitting
We’re Not an App — We’re an Employer. Every pet sitter you’ll meet from DFW Pet Sitting is a W-2 employee. That means we handle hiring, screening, background checks, training, insurance, bonding, and ongoing management. You’re not trusting a stranger’s self-written profile — you’re trusting a company that has completed over one million pet care visits since 2003 and carries full commercial liability coverage on every single one. Our 250+ sitters are W-2 employees across DFW, not gig workers.
Your Sitter Lives in Sachse. We assign pet sitters who live within a five-mile radius of your home. If you’re in Woodbridge off SH-78, Heritage Park near Hudson Drive, Jackson Hills along Sachse Road, Pleasant Valley Estates, or one of the newer communities near the President George Bush Turnpike, your sitter is local. Less drive time means more time with your pets — and faster response if plans change.
One sitter, one key, one relationship. The person at your free consultation is the person who returns, and nobody else is given access. In a city this small the same sitter can hold a tight arrival window all week, which is much of the appeal.
Visits are tracked in our software, and the phones are answered 6:00am–11:00pm Central. If a sitter cannot make it, a manager moves the visit the same day from a payroll of 250-plus employees — and with Wylie, Murphy and Garland all bordering Sachse, help is genuinely close.
Our Sachse Pet Sitting & Dog Walking Services
Daily Dog Walking — Sachse is a commuter community — many residents drive to Richardson, Plano, downtown Dallas, or the Firewheel area every day via the Bush Turnpike or SH-78. If your workday leaves your dog home alone for eight-plus hours, our midday dog walking service fills the gap. We visit on your schedule, provide a walk and bathroom break, refresh water, and give your dog the exercise and companionship they need. Same walker, same window. Visits are 25 minutes. Walking plans start at $23.
Vacation & Travel Pet Sitting — Your absence is the only thing that changes. The animals keep their day, and the person delivering it is someone they have met already. Meals, medication, playtime, mail and parcels, and moving the lights around are all part of the job. Nothing is boarded and nothing is improvised.
Cat Sitting — A cat holds her territory and would rather not be moved out of it: no carrier, no car, no unfamiliar smells. Your sitter arrives on the schedule you set to feed her, deal with the box, refresh the water, and spend the rest of the time with her rather than on her.
Puppy & Senior Pet Care — Sachse’s growing neighborhoods — Heritage Park, Richfield Estates, Cedar Creek — are full of young families with brand-new puppies who need extra visits for housebreaking, socialization, and energy management. Senior pets may need medication administration, gentle mobility support, or more frequent check-ins. We customize every care plan to your pet’s life stage.
Multiple Pet Households — Many Sachse families have dogs, cats, and sometimes birds or small animals. We handle multi-pet households in a single visit with no surprise upcharges. Extra pet is $3.
What Sets DFW Pet Sitting Apart from Apps Like Rover
A Woodbridge address, a Jackson Hills cul-de-sac, and a Heritage Park home near Hudson Drive 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 Sachse since 2003. Side by side:
| DFW Pet Sitting | Rover / Wag / Apps | |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Type | W-2 employees | Independent contractors |
| Background Checks | Company-verified | Self-reported |
| Insurance | Full commercial liability | Limited or none |
| Management | 24/7 on-call manager | No oversight |
| Sitter Assignment | Local, within 5 miles | Whoever accepts the job |
| Visit Monitoring | GPS-tracked, time-verified | Honor system |
| Meet-and-Greet | Always free, in-person | Optional |
| Emergency Protocol | Published, company-managed | You’re on your own |
Sachse Neighborhoods We Serve
Our Sachse sitters cover the full city, including:
Woodbridge — Sachse’s largest and most well-known master-planned community. Multiple phases, community pools, walking trails, and a strong family-oriented culture. High pet ownership and one of our busiest Sachse areas.
Heritage Park — Newer homes (from 2012 onward) with large floor plans near Hudson Drive. Growing fast with young families and their pets.
Jackson Hills / Jackson Meadows — Established neighborhoods along Sachse Road with a mix of home sizes and strong community feel.
Pleasant Valley Estates / Pleasant Valley Ranch — Homes on generous lots with a slightly more rural feel on Sachse’s northern edge, bordering Wylie.
Richfield Estates / Cedar Creek Estates — Growing communities with newer construction and families moving in from across DFW.
Peachtree Estates / Hunters Ridge / Sachse Farms — Established single-family neighborhoods with mature trees and loyal residents. The kind of streets where your sitter becomes a familiar face quickly.
The Sachse route also takes in Wylie, Murphy, Garland, Rowlett, Plano, and Richardson. Because 75048 is the only ZIP here and it spans two counties, we work from the street rather than the postmark. Sitters come to you, always. Call (214) 574-7387 or text (214) 360-7367 and we’ll match you with the closest sitter.
Where Our Sachse Sitters Walk
Sachse is small, which is the point. Roughly six square miles, one ZIP code, and a park within a short walk of nearly every house. Our sitters can cross the whole city in ten minutes, and that is the practical reason our arrival windows here are the tightest in the hub.
Heritage Park, 4408 Hudson Drive behind Sewell Elementary — thirty-six acres with a 0.7-mile walking and jogging trail and three lighted baseball fields. The trail is the workhorse of our Sachse dog walks: measurable, flat, lit after dark in winter, and a genuine loop rather than an out-and-back.
Muddy Creek Preserve, 5400 Pleasant Valley Road — a picnic table, a walking trail and a lot of quiet. This is the same creek system that runs up into Wylie, and it is the most natural-feeling ground in the city. Our first choice for a nervous or reactive dog. Check for burrs and ticks afterwards; we do, and we tell you if we find anything.
Dave Sanford Park, 4915 Miles Road at Trail Ridge Drive — accessible paths, a playground and a pond. The pond makes it interesting for dogs and means we keep the lead short. J.K. Sachse Park, 4310 Ranch Road, has a pavilion, pickleball courts and restrooms.
Joe J. and Patricia D. Stone Park, 6000 Laurel Crest Lane — a neighborhood park with a reservable covered pavilion, and a sensible place to end a longer walk in shade.
Smaller parks we use week in and week out: Cornwall Lane Park at 1800 Cornwall Lane, with grills, a pavilion and a playground; Bunker Hill Park at Bunker Hill Road and Sewell Drive; Cedar Creek Estates Park at Westcreek Drive and Cedar Creek Court, which has a trail; Creek Crossing Park near Lake Meadow Lane; Firefighters Park on 5th Street; Ingram Park on Ingram Road; and Sachse on the Creek Park in the Sachse Creek subdivision. All of Sachse is 75048.
One honest note: Sachse does not have a dog park. The nearest are Prairie Tails in Wylie and Bush Central Barkway in Richardson. We mention it because you will look for one, not because it changes what we do — we keep client dogs on lead while we are working regardless of what is available.
How It Works — Three Steps
Step 1: Give us a call. Call (214) 574-7387, text (214) 360-7367, or book online. Tell us about your animals and your dates, and mention your street — 75048 covers both Sachse and part of Garland, so the ZIP alone does not place you.
Step 2: Free Meet-and-Greet — A Sachse sitter meets you at your house, free, ahead of any booking at all. Sachse straddles the Collin and Dallas county line, so this is also where we pin down which route covers your street. She learns the feeding, the medication and the leash, and takes a key only if you offer one.
Step 3: We take care of the rest. Your sitter works the plan you set, a manager tracks each visit in real time, and you get a photograph from every visit so nothing is left to guesswork.
Meet Our Sachse Pet Sitters
You meet your assigned Sachse-area sitter 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 Sachse sitters work only within a 5-mile radius of where they live, covering Woodbridge, Heritage Park, Jackson Hills, Jackson Meadows, Pleasant Valley Estates, Pleasant Valley Ranch, Richfield Estates, Cedar Creek Estates, Peachtree Estates, Hunters Ridge, and Sachse Farms. The person you meet is the only person entering your house.
What Sachse Clients Say
Sachse families review us on the same Google listing as the rest of DFW — 4.9 stars from 500+ reviews. Read the reviews, then meet your sitter in person.
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Ready to meet your Sachse 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.
A Small City, Two Counties, and Why That Matters
Sachse straddles the Collin and Dallas county line, and it is bordered by Wylie, Murphy, Garland, Plano and Richardson. For a pet owner that produces a few practical quirks worth knowing.
Your vet is probably not in Sachse. Most of our Sachse clients use a practice in Wylie, Plano, Murphy or Garland. We write your vet’s name, address and phone into your file at the meet-and-greet, along with a second choice and the nearest emergency hospital, so nobody is searching for a number during an actual emergency. We also ask whether you want a spending limit recorded.
Animal services depends on which side of the line you are on. Sachse runs its own animal shelter at 6436 Sachse Road. If a client’s dog ever got out on our watch, your sitter knows to call you first, then us, then the shelter — in that order, and while still looking.
Small city, short drives, tighter windows. Because a sitter can cross Sachse in ten minutes, we can hold a narrower arrival window here than in a sprawling city, and we can more often absorb a same-day change. Sachse residents get the practical benefit of being small.
We also cover the neighbors. Wylie, Murphy, Richardson, Plano and Garland are all served, and several of our Sachse sitters work across the Woodbridge neighborhoods that sit on the Sachse–Wylie boundary. Give us your address rather than your city and we will match you with whoever is genuinely closest.
Cat sitting in Sachse
Cats are covered on the same 25-minute visit: fresh water, food portioned your way, a scooped litter box, medication if it is needed, and time with your cat rather than a rushed food drop. More on how it works is on our cat sitting page.
Frequently Asked Questions About Pet Sitting in Sachse
What do you charge for pet sitting in Sachse?
$25 for a 25-minute visit with one pet, $3 for each additional pet, and dog walks from $23. Sachse is roughly six square miles, so our sitters spend less time driving here than almost anywhere else we work — and that shows up as tighter arrival windows rather than a lower price.
Is Sachse one ZIP code?
Yes — 75048 covers the city. One thing to know: the Postal Service lists 75048 with Sachse as the recommended city name and Garland as a recognized alternate, so some Sachse addresses get mailed as Garland and some Garland addresses get mailed as Sachse. If your street is in Sachse, this page is your team; if you are on the Garland side, Garland has its own.
Why does Sachse being in two counties matter to me?
Sachse straddles the Collin and Dallas county line, and it is bordered by Wylie, Murphy, Garland, Plano and Richardson. The practical effects are small but real: which county’s records apply to your pet registration, and which side of the line you are on if animal services get involved. Sachse runs its own animal shelter at 6436 Sachse Road, which keeps most of it simple.
Our vet isn’t in Sachse. Is that a problem?
Not at all, and it is the norm here — most of our Sachse clients use a practice in Wylie, Plano, Murphy or Garland. We write your vet’s name, address and phone into your file at the meet-and-greet, along with a second choice and the nearest emergency hospital, so nobody is searching for a number during an actual emergency. We also ask whether you want a spending limit recorded.
How tight can you make the arrival window in Sachse?
Tighter than in most cities we serve, and that is a direct consequence of size. A sitter can cross Sachse in about ten minutes, so we are not building slack into the schedule to cover a twenty-minute drive. If a narrow, predictable visit time matters to you — for a diabetic cat on a fixed insulin schedule, say — Sachse is one of the easier places for us to deliver it.
Where do your sitters walk dogs in Sachse?
Heritage Park at 4408 Hudson Drive, behind Sewell Elementary, is the workhorse — thirty-six acres with a 0.7-mile walking and jogging trail and three lighted baseball fields. The trail is measurable, flat, a genuine loop rather than an out-and-back, and lit after dark in winter, which matters for evening visits in January.
Our dog is nervous around other dogs. Where would you take her?
Muddy Creek Preserve at 5400 Pleasant Valley Road — a picnic table, a walking trail and a lot of quiet. It is the same creek system that runs up into Wylie and the most natural-feeling ground in the city, which makes it our first choice for a nervous or reactive dog. One caveat we act on: check for burrs and ticks afterward. We do, and we tell you if we find anything.
Is there a park within walking distance of most Sachse homes?
Effectively yes, and it is one of the nicer things about living here — the city fits a park within a short walk of nearly every house. Dave Sanford Park at 4915 Miles Road, at Trail Ridge Drive, is another regular stop. It means a 25-minute visit in Sachse is usually a real walk from your front door rather than a drive to a walk.
Does Sachse have an off-leash dog park?
Not one we will point you to inside the city, and we are not going to invent one — Wylie’s Prairie Tails Dog Park is the nearest purpose-built option and it is a good one. It changes nothing about our visits either way: on the clock our sitters keep dogs leashed, so we do not turn a client’s dog loose in the run anywhere.
What happens if our dog gets out while you’re on a visit?
Your sitter calls you first, then us, then the Sachse shelter at 6436 Sachse Road — in that order, and while still looking. That sequence is deliberate: you may know where the dog goes, and the first few minutes matter more than the paperwork. Keep the rabies tag on and the microchip registration current, because that is what turns a found dog into a phone call.
Which Sachse neighborhoods do you serve?
All of them — the city is small enough that this is a literal statement rather than a marketing one. Tell us the street and we will assign the sitter already covering it, which in a six-square-mile city usually means someone who is genuinely minutes away.
Is the meet-and-greet actually free?
Free, in your home, and with no obligation to book afterward. Your sitter meets the animals on their own floor, learns where the food and leash live, and we confirm the access works. You will know exactly who is coming before you commit to anything.
Are Sachse sitters employees or gig workers?
W-2 employees, background-checked, insured and bonded through the company. We have never used gig workers in more than twenty years. In a small city that also means continuity — you tend to get the same assigned person every visit rather than whoever accepted the job.
What if our regular sitter is unavailable?
Someone else from the Sachse rotation covers the visits and we tell you rather than letting you discover it. Access details and your pet’s routine are recorded centrally, and a manager is on call 24/7 if a visit needs backup.
Can the sitter handle insulin or other injections?
Yes — subcutaneous injections such as insulin, plus oral medication, topicals, and ear and eye drops. We practice the routine with you at the free consultation and write down whatever technique actually works for your animal. Genuinely clinical needs we will refer to your vet instead of taking them on.
Do you sit for cats in Sachse?
Frequently. A cat visit covers food, fresh water, litter, and a proper look at the animal to catch a problem early. Cats stay markedly calmer at home than in a boarding facility, and for most healthy adult cats one visit a day is plenty. Call (214) 574-7387 or text (214) 360-7367 between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. Central to set it up.
Pet Sitting and Dog Walking Jobs in Sachse
DFW Pet Sitting Services is hiring W-2 pet sitters and dog walkers in Sachse. We’re looking for pet lovers with flexible schedules who can accommodate occasional mid-day visits within 5 miles of their home. For more details, visit our jobs page.
Contact Us
Email: info@dfwpetsitting.com
Phone: (214) 574-7387
Text: (214) 360-7367
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We’re Hiring Pet Sitters in Sachse
DFW Pet Sitting Services is hiring W-2 pet sitters and dog walkers in Sachse. We are looking for reliable pet people with flexible mid-days who want to work within about five miles of home. You would be an employee, not a contractor — we carry the insurance and the bond, you get an assigned backup, and there is a manager on call. Pay, schedule and requirements are on our pet sitting jobs page.