How We Make $12,000 a Year Dog Sitting From Home

Today, I’m excited to share a guest post from Brooks, a solopreneur with a passion for building income streams. In this post, he shares how a single Facebook post from his wife turned into a side hustle that brings in $12,000 to $15,000 a year – just from watching other people’s dogs. If you’re looking for a low-cost, enjoyable way to make extra money from home (and you love dogs!), this post is full of great tips, funny moments, and helpful systems you can copy. Whether you’re interested about pet sitting or just love hearing about unique side hustles, I think you’ll really enjoy Brooks’ story.

My wife said, “Let’s test it” with a simple Facebook post.

And now we’re on track to make $12-15k this year watching other people’s dogs.

Not bad for a side hustle that’s 100% flexible and more play than work.

(That’s one of the reasons it makes this list of side hustles you can start with no money!)

Let me tell you how we stumbled into one of our favorite income streams.

I love building multiple income streams. That’s why one of my personal projects is literally a newsletter called Build Income Streams. 

But this one? This one happened by accident.

My wife and I were chatting one day about how much we love dogs. We’ve always been dog people. But we weren’t ready to commit to owning more than one ourselves.

My wife had an idea.

“What if we watched other people’s dogs?”

Not necessarily dog walking (which is also great), but more like dog sitting. 

So she made a Facebook post.

Something simple like: “Hey friends, we’re thinking about dog sitting. Anyone need someone to watch their pup?”

Within a week, we had our first booking.

Before we knew it, we had more requests than we could handle.

I think part of the reason is my wife’s true love for dogs and doing fun things like crafts and giving them pup cups