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Northern Virginia Dog Sitting Services

dog having dog sitting at own homeWhether you’re taking a few weeks off for vacation or will just be out of town for a day or two, Paw Pals Pet Sitting offers dog sitting services to love and take care of your pup anywhere in Northern Virginia.

Paw Pals provides a wide variety of personalized and loving in-home and out-of-home dog sitting services to keep your dogs happy and healthy while you’re away. We are a locally owned and operated business with a great team of fully vetted pet sitters and dog lovers at heart. Our dog sitting services are flexible and designed to help out dog owners who care deeply about their dogs and do not want them put in a kennel or into boarding while they’re away.

Contents

  • 1 Professional Dog Sitting
  • 2 Dog Sitting Vacation Visits
    • 2.1 Vacation Visit Pricing
  • 3 Overnight House & Dog Sitting
    • 3.1 Overnight House & Dog Sitting Pricing
  • 4 Bed & Biscuit (Boarding) Pet Sitting
  • 5 Additional Services
    • 5.1 Dog Supply Pick-Up
    • 5.2 Dog Transportation / Dog Taxi Service
    • 5.3 Dog Medication Administration
    • 5.4 Dog Waste Pickup (Poopie Patrol)
    • 5.5 House Sitting / Garden Watering
    • 5.6 Plant Sitting
  • 6 Dog Sitting Policies
    • 6.1 Safety First!
    • 6.2 New Client Setup / Meet & Greet
    • 6.3 Late Bookings
    • 6.4 Inclement Weather

Professional Dog Sitting

Paw Pals dog sitters are highly trained and fully certified professionals who will guarantee the “Best Care for your Best Friend” in all of Northern Virginia. Each of our sitters will care for your dogs just as you would and will love your dogs as if they were our own – because each of them are puppy parents as well! We give your dogs the interaction, exercise, and love they crave while helping to keep them in their regular routines while you’re away.

Paw Pals’ sitters are licensed, bonded, fully insured, and 100% PetTech certified in Pet CPR and First Aid. For your convenience, we offer regular vacation visits (non-overnight), in-home overnight dog & house sitting, and our bed & biscuit service where your dog stays overnight at a Paw Pals pet sitter’s home. Each of our services can be paired with our house sitting and garden watering services where our pet sitters look after your home while you’re away.

Dog Sitting Vacation Visits

Paw Pals pet sitters love to care for and play with your dog by keeping them happy in their regular routines while you’re away. This helps minimize stress, anxiety, and loneliness for your dog, as well as keeps them stimulated at regular intervals. Vacation visits are available from anywhere between 30-60 minutes depending on your preferences. Vacation visits include walks, playtime, attention and affection, brushing, treats, fresh food and water, cage cleaning (if needed), and medication administration. Our pet sitters are also able to take care of minor household tasks while you’re away to help secure your home and make it seem as if someone were home. These include bringing in papers and mail, alternating lights, opening and closing blinds, and plant sitting.

For the wellbeing of your dogs, they will require at least 3 visits per day while you’re away. This keeps them happy, healthy, and stimulated to avoid any misbehavior or home damage.

Vacation Visit Pricing

Vacation VisitsStandard VisitExtended VisitDeluxe Visit
Visit Duration30 Minutes45 Minutes60 Minutes
Idea For Typical dogs and energetic puppies; may have cats or other critters as well Dogs requiring more play time, walking, and attention; may have cats or other critters as wellDogs requiring more play time, walking, and attention; may have cats or other critters as well
First Dog$27.00$35.00$50.00
Extra Dog (Each)$3.00$5.00$7.00
Extra Cat (Each)$2.00$2.00$2.00

Includes:

  • Walks, playtime, brushing, and treats
  • Fresh food and water at scheduled visit
  • Medications, if required (see medication administration)
  • Attention and love as if they were our own!

Overnight House & Dog Sitting

If you’re reluctant to leave your dogs alone at night, our sitters can come to your home and stay with your pets overnight with our overnight house & dog sitting service. Overnight dog sitting includes a 30 minute walk for your dogs in the evening and in the morning, as well as walks, playtime, brushing, treats, fresh food and water, medication administration, and attention and love as if they were our own! In addition, our sitters will bring in all mail and papers, do some plant sitting, open and close blinds, alternate lights, adjust thermostats, and take out or bring in the trash and recycling. Our sitters are always respectful of and courteous toward your home, and will leave it at least as well as they found it, guaranteed.

A Paw Pals dog sitter will stay with your dog or dogs overnight. Overnight stays are for 12 hours with arrival times between 7-10 PM. Included is a 30 minute walk for your dogs in the evening and in the morning. Additional mid-day visits may be scheduled as needed.

Note: Subject to sitter availability.

Overnight House & Dog Sitting Pricing

Cost Per Night# of Dogs
$153.00First Dog
$16.00Per Additional Dog

Dog Sitting Includes:

  • Walks, playtime, brushing, treats
  • Fresh food and water at scheduled visit
  • Medications, if required (see medication
    administration)
  • Attention and love as if they were our
    own!

House Sitting Includes:

  • Bringing in papers, mail, and packages
  • Plant sitting and watering house plants
  • Opening/closing blinds
  • Alternating lights
  • Taking out/bringing in trash and
    recycling

Bed & Biscuit (Boarding) Pet Sitting

If you don’t want your best friend to be alone at night but prefer not to have a dog sitter stay in-house while you’re away, your well-behaved dogs may stay at a Paw Pals pet sitter’s home with our Bed & Biscuit boarding service.  Each stay is highly personalized to allow your dogs to continue with their typical routine as closely as possible. Dogs are treated as part of the family when they stay with our sitters, and you’ll return home to find them with a smile on their face! To be eligible for bed & biscuit, dogs must be social, friendly, house trained, and be current on their shots and flea & tick medication.

This service costs $80 per night for one dog.  Additional dogs are $40 per night.
Regular daytime vacation feeding/walk rates also apply. (see Vacation Visits above)

Additional Services

Dog Supply Pick-Up

We can shop at your preferred specialty store or the nearest pet supply store to pick up food, supplies, litter, etc, that a pet owner needs but is unable or unavailable to do so. Whether someone is out of town or is just too busy, Paw Pals’ dog and pet sitters can get all of the supplies your pets need to stay cute!

Note: We will shop at a nearby pet supply store. If a particular specialty store is requested, depending on the distance, additional costs may be incurred.

Cost: $20 plus amount of receipt

Dog Transportation / Dog Taxi Service

Paw Pals’ pet taxi service is available to help dog owners manage their time more effectively, and can be very useful when an owner is unavailable or on vacation. With this service, we can transport pets to the groomer, vet, or other places they might need to go to in our service area. We will be able to remain with a pet through the entire visit in order to reassure and give them the attention they need. Paw Pals requires our clients to make prearranged payments with their groomer or vet, and we must also require our clients to be reachable to make any important decisions during these visits. This service is available by appointment and can include up to 2 pets, with an additional charge for more.

Calculate Your Cost Estimate:

  • Go to Google maps: Driving directions to get the route distance
  • Multiply the distance by $3.00
  • Add $20.00 for Drop-off and/or Pick-up charge for the first pet; $5 extra for each additional pet
  • Add $15 per half hour waiting time (You do not pay both a Drop-off and Pick-up charge if we wait.)

Dog Medication Administration

Every Paw Pals pet sitter has training to administer pet medications. In most cases, pets will take the medication with a little coaxing, or willingly, and administering medication in food or treats would not require an additional charge when feeding your pets. However, medications including subcutaneous fluids and injections such as insulin require additional expertise and an add-on fee.

Cost:

  • Topical – $5
  • Oral in food – $0
  • Oral without food – $5
  • Injections – $15
  • Subcutaneous Fluids – $25

Dog Waste Pickup (Poopie Patrol)

Sometimes dog owners are not able or available to pick up all of the dog piles in the yard. Nobody wants a shoe emergency on their hands, so our poopie patrol service can handle the realities of this daunting task. This can be performed by Paw Pals as an add-on to a regular pet sitting or dog sitting visit, or can be scheduled as a separate service.

Stand-alone Cost:

  • $16.00 for the first 15 minutes
  • $10.00 for each additional 15 minutes

Add-on Cost:

  • $10.00 for the first 15 minutes
  • $10.00 for each additional 15 minutes

House Sitting / Garden Watering

Don’t have dogs or cats, but you still need your house taken care of while you are away? Our house sitting can be done by us visiting your home once or twice a day to take care of the minor household tasks that you would normally do. Your home is made more secure by crime-deterring measures taken by your pet sitter, including:

  • Bringing in papers, mail, and packages
  • Pkant sitting and watering house plants
  • Feeding fish and refilling bird feeders
  • Opening/closing blinds
  • Alternating lights
  • Taking out/bringing in trash and recycling

Cost: $20 per day/visit

Garden Watering
Garden watering can be added onto either House Sitting or Pet Sitting visits.

Cost: $8.00 for each 15 minutes

Plant Sitting

When you are gone for a while, watering your plant can sometimes be a job that you might not remember and then regret. It can be a tedious task for anyone to drive over to your place just to water your plants, but it is a pretty easy job for someone who is already there. When our pet sitters are already taking care of your home and your sweet dog, they could also help to do some plant sitting. We are able to make sure that your plant is well watered and taken care of!

Dog Sitting Policies

Paw Pals has policies and procedures in place for certain situations which include:

Safety First!

First and foremost, our professional dog sitters put safety first. We do our absolute best to make sure there is nothing that could go wrong during any of our visits. Each of our dog and pet sitters is certified in PetTech PetSaver First Aid and CPR and must re-certify every two years in order to keep up with the best safety practices which could save the life of a pet in an emergency. Each of Paw Pals’ dog and pet sitters is truly an animal lover, and that is how we can always provide the care and attention that your dogs crave during the day.

New Client Setup / Meet & Greet

Before someone becomes one of our dog or pet sitting clients, we require an initial “Meet & Greet” at your home to make introductions with you and each of your pets. We’ll take this time to discuss the needs of you and your pets, determine a pet’s temperament and behavior, and analyze whether a dog is an acceptable candidate for our dog or pet sitting services. Once this has occurred, we can talk about a pet’s normal routine as we fill out all of our required paperwork and inform new clients on our policies and procedures.

We also use this as an opportunity for you to show us your pet’s routine, and for us to complete all the paperwork and go over our policies and procedures. However, you are under no obligation to obtain services as a result of this visit, and we reserve the right to refuse service if we believe a pet is not a good candidate for our services.

Cost: $25.00 (This fee will be waived if Paw Pals determines that your pet(s) will not be a good
candidate for our services.)

Note: For existing clients who add a new pet to their family and wish for their pet sitter to meet them and the pet before services begin, there will be a $15.00 visit fee.

Late Bookings

We understand that not everything happens as planned and will do our best to accommodate last-minute requests. These requests are not guaranteed and are subject to sitter availability. Please note that requests made after business hours will be considered as having been received the next business day.

    • Existing clients: Requests made with less than 2 business days’ notice will incur a $10.00/visit surcharge. Same-day requests will incur an additional $25/visit last minute booking charge. (If the request is for a series of visits, the surcharges will apply only to the visits within the late booking period, not all the visits in the series.)
  • New clients: All new clients must have an initial Meet & Greet completed before any visits or services can be confirmed. Please see New Client Setup/Meet & Greet section above.

Inclement Weather

For days when there is severe inclement weather, a $20.00 fee may apply. This policy is most often associated with a federal government shutdown or if Fairfax County Public Schools are closed.

Holiday Schedule

Holiday2023Extra Fee Per Visit
New Year’s DayJan 1st & Jan 2nd$10.00
Martin Luther King Jr. DayJan 16th$5.00
President’s DayFeb 20th$5.00
Easter WeekendApril 7th – April 9th $10.00
Memorial Day WeekendMay 27th – May 29th$10.00
JunteenthJune 19th$5.00
4th of July WeekendJuly 1st – July 4th$10.00
Labor Day WeekendSept 2nd – Sept 4th$10.00
Columbus DayOct 9th$5.00
Veteran’s DayNov 10th$5.00
Thanksgiving WeekendNov 23rd – Nov 26th$10.00
Christmas WeekDec 20th – Dec 26th$10.00
New Year’s EveDec 31st$10.00

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Areas Served

  • Centreville, VA Dog Sitting
  • Chantilly VA Dog Sitting
  • Clifton VA Dog Sitting
  • Fair Lakes VA Dog Sitting
  • Fair Oaks VA Dog Sitting
  • Fairfax VA Dog Sitting
  • Fairfax Station VA Dog Sitting
  • Manassas VA Dog Sitting
  • Oakton VA Dog Sitting
  • Reston VA Dog Sitting
  • Vienna VA Dog Sitting

Office Location

Paw Pals Pet Sitting, LLC
14001-C Saint Germain Drive #213
Centreville, VA 20121
(703) 345-1695

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Office Hours

Monday
9am - 5pm
Tuesday
9am - 5pm
Wednesday
9am - 5pm
Thursday
9am - 5pm
Friday
9am - 5pm
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
Closed

Areas Served

Centreville – 20120, 20121
Chantilly – 20151
Clifton – 20124
Fairfax – 22030, 22033
Fairfax Station – 22039
Manassas – 20109, 20110, 20111
Reston – 20191, 20190

Google Rating
4.9
Paw Pals Pet Sitting
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4.9
Taylor Smith
Taylor Smith
21:22 03 Oct 21
I never worry when Mary and team take care of my dog!
Michæl Silva
Michæl Silva
21:38 01 Jul 22
Mary at Paw Pals Pet Sitting is the greatest! She has helped me train my pooch Chico how play nice with other dogs and for that I am extremely grateful! A+A+A+A+A+A
Kwi Kim
Kwi Kim
22:37 17 Jun 22
I hired Paw Pals based on my sister’s referral. Meet & greet was very thorough and detailed. I was surprised that my finicky cat came to check the sitter out. Subsequently, a sitter watched my cat over several separate visits, and it was clear through the visit reports that my cat loved the sitter. All the visits were completed having followed my directions & with professionalism.I would highly recommend Paw Pals to anyone who’s looking for a dependable, personable, & professional sitter.
Joseph Walter
Joseph Walter
19:55 13 Jun 22
Paw Pals provided a large number of photos of our pets along with a personalized message on how our pets were doing with every single visit. I would highly recommend using Paw Pals, we'll be continuing to use them whenever we go on vacation.
Ashley Manning
Ashley Manning
09:50 11 Jun 22
Highly recommend as pet sitters!Initially, a sitter from the company will visit the house to meet the pets and learn where everything is. Tatiana took careful notes and we got her some spare keys.While we are away, Paw Pals sends sitters to come and look after our boys. They feed them, scoop litter, bring in mail and packages, and they will even manage trash, recycling, blinds and lights so that everything is comfortable for our kitties. Each time they check in, we receive an email message with updates and pictures, which is so comforting when we are on the road.Also, if you don’t let Paw Pals know when you are home, they assume something has happened and will continue to care for your babies. If something were to happen, I know they would be okay.Five stars for Paw Pals!
Brian Wood
Brian Wood
04:08 22 May 22
We have used Paw Pals for a number of years now and would highly recommend to anyone looking for help with their pets. Great communication from owner Mary and flexibility to make adjustments in schedule as life changes over time. Have had a consistent set of walkers who have gotten to know our pup and the various walking routes around our neighborhood quite well.
Lesley Bush
Lesley Bush
13:58 18 Mar 22
We can't rave enough about Paw Pals. They took care of our 18 year old Cat and 20 year old Chinchilla while we were away and when our flight got cancelled, they were so accommodating and available last minute for an extra day. We worked with Jen to coordinate visits from Miko and Danny. I loved the pictures and updates on how our Lil geriatric guys were doing. Thanks a million, Paw Pals!! Our special pets were so well cared for.
Sebastian Barnes
Sebastian Barnes
01:06 17 Jan 22
I have used Paw Pals for several trips over the last few months, and they have been phenomenal every time! Mary is extremely kind and responsive, and she makes sure that my cat and dog have the care that they need every time I am out of town. All of the pet sitters that I've had have been incredibly sweet to my pets, and they treat them like their own! Will gladly continue using Paw Pals every time I need a sitter.
Julie Shildt
Julie Shildt
17:45 14 Nov 21
It has been a pleasure doing business with paw pals. We have used this company for several trips we have taken over the past 6 months. They have been wonderful caretakers for our 2 cats. Anytime there is ever a question they don't hesitate to give us a call and they leave the best notes and pictures in the emailed report of each visit. We are so glad have found such a great company.
Andrea Hall
Andrea Hall
22:45 03 Oct 20
I wasn't sure about hiring a new doggie walker service... after all they are our kiddos... my babies were in great hands and I felt relaxed having them in their care. Thank you for everything!
Katie McCune
Katie McCune
19:19 15 Jul 21
I honestly cannot recommend Mary and her whole crew enough! We started using Mary originally about 7 years ago to stop by occasionally when our Aussie Lana was younger. Over the next couple years Lana stayed with Mary and her family for a couple weekends when we went on vacation. When we moved to our new house in Manassas, Lana stayed with Sam, who lives in Manassas, overnight for moving day, and did great. Right before the pandemic, we adopted our second Aussie, Goose, and Mary recommended a fantastic trainer for him.We now have weekly walks for the dogs, and they love all of their walkers! Trevor, Paul, Hazel, Sofie, and probably a couple others have helped Goose get used to more people, and have helped my husband and me when our schedules are crazy.Paw Pals is our go-to for any help with our dogs, so I highly recommend them!
Alexandra Hill
Alexandra Hill
22:43 23 May 21
I was a nervous mommy to leave my cats with a sitter service for the first time. Paw Pals went above and beyond to care for my cats and ease a nervous mommy. I already made a reservation to use them again!
Cindy Welgoss
Cindy Welgoss
13:12 27 Nov 20
We have been using Paw Pals for several years, and through a variety of pets that we have loved. Mary and her team have always been *exceptional* in every way. They are professional, courteous, and truly love our fur family! Mary herself is an organized and stellar administrator of her pet care business, keeping detailed records of our pet’s needs, scheduled pet visits, payments, and balance due easy to keep track of as the pet owner. The pet caretaking team is reliable and trustworthy. When our dogs see any of their Paw Pal friends, they get SO excited to see them! Follow up comments are left via text to keep the pet owner informed of the visit and how the pets are faring. Paw Pals has allowed our family the peace of mind to leave our pets at home, for work, weekend getaways and longer times away when necessary, where they are the most comfortable and familiar. We are grateful to Mary and her team for giving us the ability to enjoy pet ownership without feeling tied down. The responsibility of having pets comes with the need to keep them safe and comfortable at all times, and Mary and her team affords us this when our family has to be away.
Dr Tammy Cashion
Dr Tammy Cashion
21:11 12 Mar 19
We have used Paw pals pet sitting on multiple occasions for our bunnies while we are away. Many pet sitters are not interested in small pets however; Mary and her team, are amazing and we trust her implicitly! We are very happy with the outstanding service we have received from her team including texts and photos of our pets when we are out of town. They always go the extra mile and we highly recommend them!
Kristin Conrad
Kristin Conrad
16:00 16 Nov 19
We are so grateful we found Mary and her team at Paw Pals. They are exceptionally responsive, amazingly organized and detail-oriented.We have such peace of mind when we travel knowing our home and pets are so well cared for. Paw Pals is the best pet sitting service we’ve used, and we’re so happy we found them.
Katie Russell
Katie Russell
15:01 17 May 20
Paw Pals is fantastic! I have had a great experience with Mary! Compassionate, professional, responsive, and prompt! Thank you!
Phillip Evans
Phillip Evans
14:38 11 Jul 20
When we adopted our new dog in January, Paw Pals agreed to walk her and give her some outside time so she wasn't in the crate all day. She loved her dog walker and you could see her excitement every time the walker showed up. We moved out of the area but would recommend Paw Pals to anyone needing someone to care for their pets.
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