Pet sitting in London — for the price of an evening of your own time.
London is one of those cities where you can live three streets from a perfect dog-walker and never know it. FurCred is a members-only pet-sitting community for verified Londoners — one credit equals one night, hosts earn credits, travellers spend them. No money, no platform-take, no twenty-pound-an-hour sitter.
The shape of the community.
London members are typically thirty-somethings in Hackney, Shoreditch, Peckham, Dalston and Islington — people with pets, a tight set of trusted local friends, and a need that paid sitters and family in another city don't quite solve. The exchange dynamic restores the asking-a-friend feeling without the social tax.
Active neighbourhoods today: Hackney, Shoreditch, Peckham, Dalston, Islington. The map widens as new members join — you can request your specific street when you join the waitlist.
Practically, in London.
- Verified members concentrated in inner east + north London
- ID-verified, phone-confirmed, references from real completed bookings
- Local emergency-vet lookup baked into every booking detail
- No subscription, no per-booking commission, no advertisement
The kind of London member who thrives here.
- You're a Londoner with a pet and a job that takes you elsewhere a few times a year.
- You'd rather host someone else's spaniel for a long weekend than pay £400 for a kennel stay.
- You want a tight, verified community over the marketplace-and-stars model.
When FurCred isn't the right pet-sitting option for London.
If you need a paid sitter on short notice and don't want to host anyone in exchange, a marketplace like Rover or a local agency will serve you faster. Credits run out, and the only way to top up is by hosting — that's by design.
If you're planning a multi-week house sit as part of a travel-and-stay strategy, TrustedHousesitters and Nomador are built around that pattern. FurCred is optimised for short-to-medium reciprocal stays between members in the same city.
If you're in a different city — Cork, Galway, Manchester, Hamburg — we're not there yet. Tell us where you are and we'll pick the next city by hand based on real interest.
Ready to join the London community?
Free to join. ID-verified members only. Open to all of London.