I am someone with an entire life of experience taking care of dogs and cats. For me, this has been a fantastic and relatively easy way to make some extra money! After my beloved senior dog passed away I definitely wanted to wait a while before getting another pet. But very quickly our house felt empty without one, so we decided to become sitters on Rover. It was one of the best decisions we have ever made. I would take care of most of these lil bebs for free because I end up completely falling in love almost every time. The majority of people willing to pay my added fee for housesitting requests are usually VERY financially comfortable. As someone who rents a small apartment downtown, this makes housesitting honestly a joy and a privilege. I often feel like I’m on vacation in these super nice homes taking care of cute pets. Keep in mind the nicer the home, usually the more high maintenance the pet is (absolutely at the fault of the owners who baby them like literal children who need their teeth brushed every night before bed lol). Full disclaimer it was NOT EASY AT FIRST AND IT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. It took about 6 months of trial and error to design our profile and scheduling habits in an optimal way. I have had friends who were inspired by me to try sitting on Rover and found it very overwhelming. I want to be VERY CLEAR in that this is not for everyone and it is not a get rich quick kind of side hustle. It works for me because I am 27 years old with literally 27 years of experience taking care of dogs and cats (always 2 or 3) at the same time. I grew up on a massive property in the country with everything from chubby house cats to stray cats we took in, from shih tzu’s to german sheppards and pitbulls. I’ve had friendly and aggressive dogs, cats with chronic health issues and everything in between. My experience is what makes its easy and enjoyable. But my friends with less experience would leave a very different review. I also want to highlight the importance of being EXTREMELY responsive to messages. Rover will send you to the bottom of the list and make you invisible very quickly if you are not responding to every message within minutes. Your calendar must always be up to date or you get docked for declining too many requests in a time where you were supposed to be available. You have to be super specific about your preferences and comfort levels with everything you can think of on your profile to avoid having to decline too many requests. Running the app and the networking portion of this side hustle is almost equally as important and demanding as taking care of the pets. Take that into account. I have had to go to the hospital from a dog bite to the face. I have had owners bold face lie to me about the behaviour of their dogs. I’ve had reactive sibling dogs fight each other out of no where and the owner try to blame me for redness in the eye as a result of the fight. These bc are peoples babies and they are protective so if you are anything less than perfect it will be an issue. Rover also has the ability for both owners and sitters to leave completely private reviews of each other that only the Rover team will see. Keep that in mind because although an owner doesn’t leave you a public review, they may have left a private review for Rover and if you’re wondering why you don’t get requests anymore, thats why. So if you read this far, I want to reiterate that Rover has changed my life for the better as a a sitter. I make enough money to cover all of my home bills every month (that is gas, electricity, water, and internet) plus some leftover which goes towards a big Costco grocery haul. While being careful to book time off to rest between dogs and a few weekends and holidays to myself, I am consistently booked up usually 3 months in advance. I would recommend this as a side hustle to anyone with a SIGNIFICANT comfort level with pets and who is extremely responsive and organized. You will not do well if you are anything less. Good luck 😊

I went through and filled out all of my profile information just to find out that I have to PAY them to interview me. The other issue is that you also need to pay for your own background check AND they take 20% of all of your earnings- which is incredibly steep. You’re better off finding your own clients off the app. Don’t waste your time.

Just downloaded the App but it's trying to force me to sign in with FB instead...not giving me a reason as to why it won't accept my info to sign up through email. May just delete this!