About

Who Is Puppy Time?

Puppy Time Vancouver is a professional animal care service based in the West End/Coal Harbour of Vancouver, BC. We specialize in dog + cat pet sitting, hotel pet sitting, dog walking, check-ins, and Animal Reiki Therapy.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide pets and their owners with quality, honest, caring, trustworthy, compassionate, and fun-loving support so both you and your pet can live happily, healthfully, and fully within the city.

How we started

Our founder, Marybeth Welty, began this business in 2015 when she missed having interaction with animals and couldn’t have a pet in her building. Since then Puppy Time has grown and developed to add more services, walkers, pet sitters, and Animal Reiki practitioners with over 100 years of combined experience to provide you and your pet with the highest quality of pet care in Vancouver, BC.

Our Experience

We’ve gotten to stay with many many different dogs and cats over the years, and it’s been awesome! We know how important each animal is as their own person within your family, and we fully acknowledge and appreciate that they are unique individuals with their own personalities and physical, emotional, and health needs.

We appreciate how busy you are, and truly believe that pets are like kids - it “takes a village” to raise them. We understand that it’s not always realistic for you to take care of them all day every day, and we want to support you in whatever way helps you and your pet the most. Whether that’s taking them for walks or a potty break while you’re at work so you don’t have to worry about them having an accident before you get home, staying with them for a few days while you go on a business trip, or staying with them while you are traveling and not able to take them with you.

It brings us joy to spend time with animals, chat with them, play with them, and to see you happy and relieved to have the help.

Our “Approach”

We provide 1-on-1 care in the comfort of the animal’s home. The clients that have come to us have animals with specific needs, usually medical or personality/behavioral challenges, don’t want to leave them alone, and likely wouldn’t do well in a boarding facility. Or they simply want more personalized 1-on-1 care, attention, and love. This is custom tailored care to your animal so it’s definitely not the same as boarding or your average petsitter. We do our very best to make the time you are away to be as comfortable, fun, supportive, and loving as can be so they are happy and healthy when you return.

We Are Great House/Apartment Sitters

We are happy to get your mail, water your plants, take care of deliveries, take your car in for service for you, run errands, and more. Just let us know.

We clean up after ourselves, wash all bedding and towels and make sure that the home is at least as clean as when we arrived. We want you to be able to come home to a calm and peaceful home after your time away.

Fresh Bread, Groceries Delivered, Dinner Prepped + Ready

Let us make you a loaf of fresh sourdough bread and have it waiting for you when you arrive home. We can coordinate professional home cleaning, grocery delivery, and we can have dinner prepped and/or made for you for when you get home. We want you to be able to come home from work, a day out, or a trip away to a beautiful home, a kitchen full of food, and a happy and healthy pet who is ecstatic to welcome you back.

Free Meet and Greet

If we feel like we’d be a good fit for you and your pet, we'd be happy to do a free meet and greet first online on Zoom so we can get to know each other and then we would do an in-person meet and greet where we come over to meet the animals and you can show us your space, where you keep their food, toys, and their beds, and any nuances to your home.

Please reach out and we can schedule a time that works for both of us. 😊