MyPetSitter®

UK's compliance-first pet care platform

Stay compliant. Stay booked. Stay profitable.

The Livestock Worrying by Dogs Act tightened penalties for professional dog walkers — you must demonstrate control, carry public liability insurance, and document your walking routes. MyPetSitter keeps you covered — from DEFRA licensing to compliance records, capacity management to online payments.
Livestock Act Ready
Council Permits
DEFRA Compliant

For every kind of pet-care business

Dog Walking
Boarding
Daycare
Pet Sitting
Home Visits

✓ No card required to register  ·  14-day free trial  ·  cancel any time

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Policy controls

100%

DEFRA ready

20+

Compliance logs

£0

Setup fee

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Gaia's Place Pet Care

5★ DEFRA

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Pets

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Forms

£285

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Gaia

Cocker Spaniel

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Luna

Labrador

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Max

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3 upcoming

1 Hour Group Walk

Gaia, Luna · Today · 10:30 AM

£25.00

Confirmed

Walk Daycare

Max · Tomorrow · 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

£42.00

Paid

Weekend Boarding

Gaia, Luna, Max · Fri 30 May → Sun 1 Jun · 2 nights

£180.00

Pending

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Gaia

by Joseph · Walker

1 hr group walk at Buxted Park · 3.2 km · 24 °C

Long walk

1 hour

Lunch

Eaten in full

Water

Drank well

Toilet

Both ✓

Play

20 min with Luna

"Gaia had a brilliant morning — full of energy and made a new friend, a chocolate lab called Cooper. Brought her back to settle for a nap."

May 2026 · INV-0042

£247.00

Due in 3 days · 8 items

May

01

1 Hour Group Walk

Gaia

£25.00


May

03

Walk Daycare

Gaia, Luna

£60.00


May

08

1 Hour Group Walk

Gaia, Luna

£35.00


May

15

Weekend Boarding

Max

£127.00

Pay £247.00

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Everything you need

Built for pet care professionals

From solo dog walkers to DEFRA-licensed boarding facilities — every tool you need to run, grow, and stay compliant.

UK Dog Walking Laws Have Changed

The Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Act 2025 came into force on 18 March 2026: unlimited fines for livestock worrying, new police powers of seizure and entry, and cover extended to roads and paths where animals are being moved. The Act places no duties on walkers itself — but councils, insurers and clients ask for insurance, DBS checks, route records and dog limits. MyPetSitter keeps every one of them in one place.

Built-in compliance
For pet parents

A dashboard the clients will love

Pet parents get their own portal — check bookings, track their pup's day with Pupdates™, browse the PupBook social wall, and handle all paperwork digitally.

Progressive onboarding wizard

Real-time daily care updates with photos

Visual booking calendar with pricing

Digital vet release & boarding agreements

Invoice history with PDF download

Upcoming Bookings

Boarding

Gaia · 24 Feb – 28 Feb

Confirmed

Daycare

Gaia · 3 Mar

Confirmed

Meet & Greet

Luna · 10 Mar

Pending
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Gaia's Place Pet Care · Wednesday

⭐ 5-Star DEFRA
3 bookings today

247

Total Bookings

38

Active Clients

52

Registered Pets

£8,420

Revenue

Revenue Trend

Today's Schedule

Gaia

Boarding

Luna

Daycare

Max

Daycare

For business owners

Your business, at a glance

KPI cards, revenue charts, today's schedule, pending requests — everything you need to stay on top of your business, daily.

Revenue & booking analytics with charts

DEFRA & dog walking compliance dashboard

Livestock Act records & council permit tracking

Capacity management with licence limits

Stripe-powered online payments — funds straight to your account

Full client CRM with pet & health records

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax

Beta

Your bookings are already your tax records

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax already applies to sole traders and landlords with qualifying income over £50,000. From 6 April 2027, it reaches everyone over £30,000. MyPetSitter keeps those digital records as you work and sends your quarterly updates and final declaration to HMRC.

  • Income from your bookings

  • Mileage from your bookings, not GPS

  • Quarterly updates and your final declaration

Beta — free for MyPetSitter subscribers while it is in beta.

Flexible for your business

Boarding, walking, or pet sitting

Choose the plan that fits your business — boarding, dog walking, or in-home pet sitting. Upgrade anytime as you grow.

Smart Calendar

Capacity-aware booking with bank holidays, unavailable dates and licence tracking.

DEFRA Compliance

Training vault, daily operational logs, star rating calculator and inspection-ready reports.

Capacity Dashboard

Real-time boarding & daycare occupancy with licence limits and overbooking prevention.

Additional Services

Grooming, transport, medication, spa — upsell with extra services per booking.

Meet & Greet Flow

Dedicated booking type for trial visits with behaviour assessment scoring.

Online Payments

Stripe checkout so clients pay online — funds land straight in your account, every time.

Simple setup

Up and running in minutes

No complex setup. No training needed. Just sign up and go.

01

Sign Up & Set Up

Create your account, add your services, pricing and policies. Takes about 10 minutes.

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Invite Your Clients

Share your link — clients register, add their pets and sign digital forms.

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Manage & Grow

Accept bookings, send Pupdates, track revenue and watch your business thrive.

From The Cat’s Intelligence

Field notes, briefings and how-tos for people who run pet-care businesses.

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Operation Belly Rub

When the Walks Are Full, a Later One Opens

On the busiest day of the week the calendar used to say FULL. Now it can say EXTRA: a later group walk with its own places and its own price, opened only when the normal walks are full, and explained everywhere it appears.

Agent Whiskers · 4 Oct 2026

Director's Statement

Don't Work Around the Software

A workaround does not stay a workaround. Within about three months it stops being a repair and becomes how the job is done — taught to new staff as though it were the work. That is why it has to be reported before it goes comfortable: by then it is invisible to the only person who can see it.

Director Meow · 23 Sept 2026

The Daily Briefing

The Humans Have Been Given a Supercomputer. It Is for a Spaniel.

MyPetSitter has been awarded 4,000 GPU-hours on Isambard-AI — the UK’s national AI supercomputer in Bristol — by UKRI’s AI Research Resource, to build Gaia: a small language model for pet-care professionals that cites its sources, defers to the authority, and sends clinical questions to a vet. In development: the research has not started yet.

Director Meow · 19 Sept 2026

Intelligence Report

Making Tax Digital, Declassified: What Every Sole Trader Must Know for April 2026

From April 2026, self-employed sole traders must keep digital records and file quarterly with HMRC. Here is what Making Tax Digital means and who it affects — plus a preview of filing Income Tax and VAT from the software you already run your pet-care business in. In development, awaiting HMRC approval.

Agent Nine Lives · 2 Aug 2026

Confidential

Confidential: The Accountant

Balance sheet, VAT, Corporation Tax, ITSA, PAYE, Director's Loan Account. The Accountant module — in development, briefed here for the first time.

Agent Nine Lives · 17 Jul 2026

Field Notes

Field Notes: The Community (video)

A field report from inside the MyPetSitter Community layer — Directory, Parks, shared feed. And what it means when the industry stops working alone.

Agent Mittens · 17 Jul 2026 · Video

Project Gaia · what this is for

Find the biggest problems in the industry and sort them.

That is the aim. Project Gaia is our open research into a small AI that knows UK pet-care rules properly — and knows when to say “ask your vet”. It is built with the people who do the work: vets, licensing officers, groomers, walkers and boarders, who tell it what the guidance leaves out. Everything it learns is published.

What Project Gaia is

MyPetSitter Ltd was awarded 4,000 GPU hours of computing time on Isambard-AI through the UK Research and Innovation AI Research Resource, for Project Gaia — a research award of computing time, not an endorsement of any product. Isambard-AI is operated by the University of Bristol and funded by the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology via UK Research and Innovation. Project 0261-1548-0489-1.

UK Research and Innovation

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