Agree, generous but less than if you boarded your 3 pets and they are getting the benefit of staying in their own home. When in college $500. may only buy a couple of books, so often much appreciated.

Yes, nice amount to pay.

My sister pays $1000.00 for a pet sitter to live at her house for one week. One cat, one dog. Big city.

We have been paying ours $70 per night. She stays the night and our elderly dog needs medication. They are happier and it's less expensive than boarding them.

We pay $65 a night for two dogs. Philly area.

What a timely post! Our daughter is getting married on the other coast in less than two weeks, and we needed to board our 12+ year dog for a week. It's been a long time since she's been boarded, so we did a overnight trial. When we went to pick her up this morning, the staff said she was extremely stressed and had concerns about a longer stay. After exhausting other options I checked out Rover.com and saw that overnight stays in our area start at $30 day. Fortunately one of our kid's college friends who knows our dog agreed to stay at our house. We are paying her $30 per night. She's thrilled because she get's her own place for a week and some extra cash. Win/win!

We have used Rover as well, and the rates vary by person and what is done. A few years ago we had someone stay at our house to care for our senior dog. It was also nice to know the house was lived in and cared for and not vacant. Since then we moved and now have a pup. We have used Rover for that as well. With the pup, he stayed at the family's house. I think we paid $35 to $40 per day. We found Rover to be a very good option. Obviously there are many care providers and we interviewed a few in each case.

On our recent trip to Europe, Wally stayed with his dog friend (from the dog park) at her house. We just hosted his friend at our house for 2 weeks and it actually worked out great. I am thinking each dog family saved close to $1000.

I used Rover twice (same sitter). Rover has set hours for overnights, I think it was 7pm to 7 am. If you want them to come during the day, that's an extra charge (visit). Not saying it is right or wrong, but something to keep in mind. We now use someone who spends much more time at the house, with the dogs.

I haven't used an overnight sitter but my sis pays $60/night for overnight stays. She leaves a clean house and most food for the sitter, comes back to the same clean house. Two german shepherds and a cat. They have 5 acres so there is no dog walking involved, but some playtime type exercise expected.

I've been paying $30/night for a sitter to stay at the house and look after two easy dogs. I'm not in a HCOL area.

That is a good amount to pay her. I was a pet sitter (just had my own little business) last summer in Ft. Worth, TX. I charged 100.00 per night.

I have never used a live in/over night pet sitter but last I checked they charged $60 per day.