5 Best Pet Sitters in Johannesburg (2026)

Waggitytails is a Randburg-based house and pet sitting service built around a team of dedicated sitters rather than a single owner-operator. It offers personalized in-home care, including feeding, playtime, exercise, grooming and medication administration, so pets stay in their own environment instead of being boarded elsewhere. The team is set up to work with a range of animals and temperaments, matching a sitter to your pet before the booking begins.

Cosmo's Pet and House Sitting is a Johannesburg sitting service that stays in your home with your pets rather than taking them elsewhere, and runs its bookings through Instagram alongside a direct phone line. Sitters cover feeding, play and daily engagement for dogs and cats, and reviewers describe sits running from a single day to over a week. The team also handles related tasks around the home while you're away.

Ri's Pet & Home Services is a Sophiatown-based operation run by Riaan Greeff, offering pet sitting alongside dog daycare, boarding and a small retail line of dog and cat food. It's a smaller, owner-run outfit rather than a team of rotating sitters, which reviewers say comes through in the personal attention pets get. Online booking is available directly through the business.

Bow Wow Meow Professional Pet Services is a Johannesburg pet sitting and dog walking business run by James, offering in-home stays where the sitter lives at the client's house while they're away. Alongside dogs and cats, reviewers describe James caring for birds and fish too, suggesting comfort with mixed households beyond the usual cat-or-dog split. The business has been operating since at least 2013.

Wiggly&Co is a Randburg pet sitting business, founded in 2020 and run by an owner reviewers refer to as Mel, offering in-home and doggy daycare style care for dogs and cats. The team handles larger breeds as well as smaller pets, and can facilitate grooming and vet visits when a client needs it during a sit. Bookings run through the business's own online system.