West London
Pet, Dog & Cat Sitting in Kensington
Live-in care for Kensington pets, with familiar homes and familiar walks.
Your sitter stays in your home overnight and follows your pets' agreed routine. We agree how long your pets can be left alone, including evenings, before booking. This is live-in care rather than drop-in visits, daycare or boarding elsewhere.
Kensington is part of our established London coverage, with homes ranging from mansion flats to quieter residential streets and garden squares. Whatever the property, our approach is to change as little as possible for your pet. The sitter comes to stay with them, following the food, walks, medication and household routine you set out before you leave.
Around High St Ken, Kensington Gardens and Holland Park give local dogs excellent options for exercise, while shorter walks can stay closer to home. Cats can remain entirely within their own territory rather than adjusting to a cattery. We're also comfortable working with porters and building-access arrangements, and your home remains occupied throughout the booking.
What we cover in Kensington
Dog sitting in Kensington
Live-in dog sitting across Kensington: your sitter moves in, keeps the walks and feeds to your timings, and is there overnight. For dogs who find boarding stressful, staying home is usually the whole answer.
Cat sitting in Kensington
For cats, the point of live-in sitting is that nothing changes. Territory, feeding spot and litter tray all stay put, and a nervous cat gets to ignore the sitter entirely until they are ready.
House sitting in Kensington
An occupied home for the whole time you are away, which is the part most Kensington clients mention afterwards. Your sitter is in every night, so the place stays lived-in rather than obviously empty.
Where we walk dogs in Kensington
We keep your dog's usual routes — these are the local spots our sits here are built around.
Kensington Gardens
A large central green space with varied routes for dogs accustomed to regular park walks.
Holland Park
A mixture of woodland and formal gardens providing a different walking environment nearby.
The Kensington squares
Quieter streets around the garden squares suit short local rounds; entry to private gardens depends on your access and their dog rules.
Cats in Kensington
For cats settled in Kensington flats, staying home keeps their environment and daily rhythm familiar. Your sitter follows the routine you leave and can work with any porter or access arrangements required by the building.
How live-in pet sitting works
Tell us about your pets
Use the instant quote calculator or drop us a message with your dates, pets and routine. We reply within 24 hours.
Free meet-and-greet
A free meet-and-greet at your home is required before a new sitter looks after your pets. Walk through routines, house rules and care needs together.
Your pets stay happy at home
Your sitter lives in for the whole stay: full walk schedule, feeding and medication on time, daily photo updates, home kept occupied.
Every sit is delivered by Marcus or one of our hand-picked, personally vetted sitters — fully insured with £5m public liability and £75k pet injury cover held in our own name, not borrowed from a platform.
Kensington pet sitting FAQs
Do you cover South Kensington as well as Kensington?
Yes. We cover W8, including High St Ken, and have separate pages for South Kensington in SW7 and Earl's Court in SW5.
Is Happy at Home Pets insured for Kensington bookings?
Yes. We hold £5m public liability and dedicated pet injury cover in the company's own name, with insurance details available before you confirm.
Where can my dog be walked in Kensington?
Kensington Gardens and Holland Park are the main nearby options, but we'll follow your dog's existing routes and exercise routine wherever possible.
Do you offer dog walking in Kensington?
Not as a separate service. Walking is included in the sit instead — your dog sitter in Kensington stays in your home, so Kensington Gardens and Holland Park stay on the daily round at the times your dog knows. If what you want is a walker for the working day, that is a different service from this one and worth booking locally.
Is this the same as dog boarding in Kensington?
No. With boarding your dog travels to a stranger's home and settles in among their pets and their routine. With live-in sitting the sitter comes to you, so your dog keeps their own bed, their own Kensington Gardens walks and their own timetable — and your home is occupied for the whole booking.
More questions answered in our full FAQ.
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