Alexandria’s Best In-home Pet Care Since 2004
Alexandria’s Best In-home Pet Care Since 2004
The care your pets deserve:
Experienced. Trusted. Committed.
Worried about leaving your pets? We love serving young, adult, and geriatric pets at home, and we care for many emotionally, behaviorally, and medically needy pets.
You want the pros: All employees are Fear Free Certified® Professionals.
Your pet has quirks: We are special-needs pet experts.
Looking for a small team that really cares about you: We’re inclusive and friendly for ALL owners too: if you love pets, we love you!
Services for Every Household Pet
Pet Sits
When you’re out of town or away for the day, schedule pet sitting visits between 7am and 10pm. We visit once or twice a day for cats, birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, fish, turtles, etc. We visit dogs three or more times daily. See pet sitting prices…
Puppy Care
Give your little one some play time while you’re away from home or at work. For pups 12 months and younger, choose a puppy break of 10, 15 or 20 minutes, once or a few times a day. They’ll be dog tired when we leave. See puppy care prices…
Dog Walks
Schedule walks any day of the week. We follow your usual routine, from low key strolls to focused and speedy exercise. We visit one home at a time, so pups get our full attention. Choose daily walk services or save $6.95 a visit with monthly weekday walking plans.
Clients Say We’re #1 In Their Homes
“APC is awesome… they watched our 2 kitties for 2 weeks while we were on vacation, took in our mail, and fed our fish. I will definitely use them again. They were hassle and worry free!”
Marina, mom to Menace and CatZilla
Get the Expertise You Expect
You found us! We are Alexandria’s unique small team of career animal experts, so we’re known as the most experienced and most trusted pet care providers in town.
Before working here, we made our professional careers in animal hospitals, shelters, doggie day care, animal rescue, fostering, and dog training.
We serve all household pets: birds, rabbits, exotics, ferrets, guinea pigs, tank pets, fish, and of course dogs and cats.
We excel in helping with special needs pets of all sorts, so ask us to meet even if you have a pet with special physical, behavioral, or medical needs.
When you hire us, you’re hiring an inclusive and diverse team of knowledgeable and prepared career professionals.
Get Real! We Work for You, Not a Platform
Working for you is not a hobby or temp gig. This is our living. We are all in, and we take pride in what we do for you and your pets. Every day.
So, we make it real around here. Our employees are dedicated to serving you, 7 days a week.
⇒ Real people on our team answer your calls.
⇒ Real people on our team introduce themselves to you and your pets in person before services begin.
⇒ Real people on our team are on-call when our office is closed.
⇒ So, let’s make it real.
⇒ Contact us today!
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We’re friendly!
Meet Us!
No charge. No obligation.
Alexandria Pet Care charges $0 consultation fee when your pet care team first meets you. That’s a $95 value – so you can meet your team and be sure we’re a great fit for your pets. No strings attached. Our prices support our 20-person independent small business that celebrates diversity, pays a living wage, hires career animal experts, and only uses Fear Free Certified® practices in our care of your pets.
Free Consultation
The employee team caring for your pets will meet you by Zoom video meeting. You’ll know personally who’s visiting, and who’s on standby.
Daily Services
Daily services are available to existing clients for pet sitting or dog walking 7 days a week, 365 days a year, 7 am to 10 pm. Not a client yet? Click to get started with a free consultation!
Monthly Services
Monthly Plans are our Monday through Friday service every week, automatically repeating every month, discounted off our daily prices and invoiced monthly before the 1st. Services exclude holidays.
Puppy Plan - 10
- $20 per visit (9% discount)
- 10 min with 1 pet, Mon-Fri
- Twice daily = $918/mo ($20 ea)
- For one pup up to 12 months
- Monthly Plan 10 for 2 pets is $559 ($25 per visit, 11% discount)
Puppy Plan - 15
- $24 per visit (15% discount)
- 15 min with 1 pet, Mon-Fri
- Twice daily = $1058/mo ($24 ea)
- For one pup up to 12 months
- Monthly Plan 15 for 2 pets is $629 ($29 per visit, 15% discount)
Standard Plan - 20
- $27 per visit (27% discount)
- 20 min with 1 pet, Mon-Fri
- Twice daily = $1198/mo ($27 ea)
- For dogs and cats of any age
- Monthly Plan 20 for 2 pets is $699 ($32 per visit, 26% discount)
Plus Plan - 30
- $38 per visit (23% discount)
- 30 min with 1 pet, Mon-Fri
- Twice daily = $1678/mo ($38 ea)
- For dogs and cats of any age
- Monthly Plan 30 for 2 pets is $989 ($45 per visit, 19% discount)
Cancellation Credits: Monthly plan visits cancelled must exceed 5 business days in a calendar month before credits post back to the account in the following month (i.e., over 5 visits for the 1 visit per day plans, over 10 visits for the 2 visits per day plans). Credits for the 6th day and beyond are applied to the next invoice.
Holiday Skips: Monthly Play visits are automatically skipped on company holidays. Please contact our office more than a week prior if you need to reinstate holiday service (holiday fees will apply each visit), or if you need to cancel visits additional days.
In 2026 visits are automatically skipped on: Monday, January 19; Monday, February 16; Monday, May 25; Friday, June 19; Friday, July 3; Monday, September 7; Monday, October 12; Tuesday, November 11; Thursday, November 26; Friday, November 27; Thursday, December 24; Friday, December 25, and Friday, January 1, 2027.
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Get Started in 3 Easy Steps:
(1) Sign Up Today
(2) Register for your online account and complete your account info
(3) Schedule a video consultation with your neighborhood team
And, well, that’s it: Fill in forms. Meet us. Make appointments anytime. Easy as pie.
What’s Included in Pet Sitting? Love & Play. No Medication Fees.
- Water & feed at scheduled times
- Dog walking services
- Play indoors
- Pick up after pets
- Scoop litter
- Change cages
- Give oral medications
- Administer insulin injections
Administer topical ointments
- Reinforce commands for dogs
- Pick up mail and newspapers
- Alternate lights & blinds
- Adjust TV and/or radio
- Water plants
- Check on overall security of home
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Our Service Area
Our five small neighborhood teams serve Alexandria City and outside the beltway from Huntington to Mount Vernon.
If you live in one of these Zip Codes then HOORAY, you live in our service area!
Inside the beltway: 22301, 22302, 22304, 22305, 22311, 22312 (east of 395 only), 22314, and 22206 (only the Fairlington portion east of S. Walter Reed Dr.)
Outside the beltway: 22303, 22306, 22307, 22308, 22309.
Our Neighborhood Teams Bring FUN Home!
We work in small neighborhood-based teams of three to five, so every client will meet their team of caregivers and know personally who’s visiting their home. We would want to meet who’s coming into our home, after all.
Gone are the days of some new pet sitter showing up who you don’t know, who doesn’t know your pets, and who your pets have no rapport with. We introduce our clients to the whole team working in their neighborhood, so there are no staff surprises for you when we take a vacation day (gasp!), or have a sick day (never!), or just have a full schedule and need our employees to stay at their usual calm and flexible pace (no packing schedules here to “fit you in” on an overloaded employee).
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