How much should ds charge for pet sitting per night?

[Wonford]

Living in their house and walking dogs twice a day. Must stay overnight but free to go during the day. Not London! (He's 23 with a desperate check and he's training as a physio)

I pay a friend £25 a night for 2 dogs but that's in her house. Same kind of informal arrangement.

Yeah I'm not offering up my adult son for nothing to help her out.

My dog goes to her house and she looks after him there along with other dogs.. We use her for holidays etc.

So she presumably has nothing useful to offer 😂
That's fair enough. I misread one of your posts and thought it was his friend, not yours.
Maybe just me but this isn't the sort of thing I'd pay a friend for. Too much can go wrong. I wouldn't think she was 'ripping him off' (if that's what you're annoyed at). She's offered the price at which she'd be happy to have a non-professional.
Be glad your DS has said no and leave it at that.

Crikey- I pay a friend £20 per night. That’s only recently gone up from £15! Seems I’m getting a bargain. Tbf- we have a large house and gardens which she enjoys as she lives in a flat with no outdoor space.

I wasn't thinking he should be paid a mw hourly rate. 30 a day is not enough to be tied to someone's house all evening and night plus walk the dogs twice a day.

If he wants exercise he can go to the gym or walk my dogs!

Anyway he's said no and I don't really blame him.

Presumably those people who are advertising will also be paying tax and NI rather than doing it for cash in hand

I gave my friends dd18 £45 for 2 nights to dog sit in our house , she walked her lots . She also had to feed the cat and I left her with a full freezer /fridge of food

As a vet student (in the last couple of years) we’d do this for £5-10 a day

And that was for strangers, not friends

We pay for ours to go into a boarder - she is £17 per 24hr period per dog...so with 3 that would be £51, and they're asking for you to go to their house so at least that surely? If he's not insured etc then £50. That's what I paid our 18yr old dog Walker when she did us a favour when we were in a jam for one doggy, one night.
we are aware our boarder is also v cheap, we got lucky!

Why?!?

@petitdonkey

hmmm

I think this is what my 'friend' would say too. But actually, whilst it is nice to have the garden, especially for the morning coffee, it really doesn't outweigh the sheer hassle of packing my stuff (food, clothes, shower stuff, iPad, chargers etc etc) just for a night or two and it's very restrictive. Her dog still (at 18 months) has 'lunch' as well as 'breakfast & dinner'.

not to mention all the cleaning up after him, that dog can make a mess in an empty room!!

her dog is adorable, but it's her dog! Yes, I'd love my own again, but hers isn't a substitute for that relationship.

she seems to think having the use of her garden & being with her dog is a treat for me. It's really not. Nor is her 'large house'. Why would it be?

im actually really getting fed up of it, but I'm not sure exactly how to say 'no' without upsetting everyone. Her sister is my friend, we're only friendly through her.

My friends son looks after my dogs at my home and I pay him £40a day.
He takes them on one long walk in the evening,feeds them twice a day and cleans up the garden if they poop.
He's 21 but lives at home so he loves the fact he gets my house to himself .

I pay a woman 100 a night to stay with my elderly Chihuahua; she's been his sitter for 12 years. I started her at 50 back then (my choice) but she's more mature now, a professional, and I want it to be appealing to her, so I've gradually increased the fee. I leave it in cash.

Plus he needs meds 2x a day and my cottage is OK but not a 5-start hotel so I feel the fee makes up a bit for that. It's a killer though; I'll be away 30 nights this year and that adds significantly to my holiday costs.

Around here, Rover sitters charge 75 a night to board; last month my longtime sitter wasn't available so I sent the dog to a couple I met two years ago via Rover; he loves it at their house and comes back energized and happy.

30 a day for live-in is taking the piss.

We pay £35 per night . £20 per day. I wouldn’t be happy paying more than that.

I should have added that I also leave lots of wine, cheese, bread, salad, Coca-cola, snacks etc. for my sitter, as well as some fun toiletries/home spa pampering stuff, and a fire laid in the fireplace, and otherwise try to make it comfortable and pleasant for her. I don't expect her to pick up after him in the garden, though she usually does.

We've used this service before. Cheapest were £15 a night and most expensive were £60 a night

A tenner per night per dog sounds reasonable

I pay mine (similar age, friend of the family) £50 a day and she can help herself to any food and drink she likes while she is here.

I think some of the attitudes on here are a bit weird. Surely you can't really think you are doing someone a favour by letting them live in your 'big house and garden' and look after your dogs!

I think the the issue here @Wonford is that you said friend and most people are happy to do favours for their friends .

Say that you're busy? That you need to work for actual money so you have to pass although it 'sounds nice'. If they get upset they are real CF's and you don't need that energy in your life!
Personally I have the same opinion as you. But I'm not the sort to enjoy a big house and/or sitting in own private garden. You like it for a morning coffee but it's not that big of a deal.
Some people just like a 'change of scene', whatever that is, so maybe it's worth it for then. And also - maybe their dogs' are not as much effort as your 'friend's' 😉

Huh? So you'd tell your friend thats its fine for your adult ds to look after her dogs and house for nothing?