Petpals Darlington - Pet Sitting, Pet Boarding
Dog Walking, Pet Taxi & Pet to Vet Services
Covering Darlington & Yarm, Middleton-St-George, Inglebury Barwick

Welcome to Petpals Darlington

Please contact us to make a booking.

If your area or village is not covered in the list of areas above please contact us and we will do our best to help.

Since its launch in May 2006 Petpals Darlington & Yarm continues to go from strength to strength, enabling Sallyann to take on new staff and ultimately for her husband David to be able to join the team too.

Sallyann and David are committed and experienced pet carers and their current menagerie includes 3 dogs, a beautiful retriever called Jasper and two rescue dogs (from Dogs Trust in Darlington) called Gem and Summer, two cats, two rabbits, a 5 foot long corn snake, an aquarium of tropical fish and a pony!

Her first year has been incredibly busy caring for over 400 pets, obviously lots of gorgeous cats and dogs, also some of our more exotic friends such as snakes, turtles, and cockatiels, not to mention house rabbits and free flying budgies too!!.

Petpals Darlington & Yarm are trusted and recommended by their local vets. They are now proud to provide their vets with emergency and out of hours transport for sick or injured pets and regularly transport pets to and from the regions specialist vet hospitals.

Sallyann & David welcome calls from pet owners in and around the Darlington, Yarm and Teeside areas to discuss how Petpals can help them and their pets.

Whatever your requirement, whether going on holiday, or out at work, or taking that spontaneous day out, Petpals Darlington & Yarm will provide you with piece of mind by taking the very best of care for your family pet.Sallyann and David are so confident that they provide the very best experience possible for your pet you can try the service for FREE!!!

Sallyann is a registered pet sitter and fully insured, who has completed training in the following:

• Pet Handling and restraint
• Behaviour, intelligence and socialisation
• First Aid
• Care of Older Pets
• Pet Sanitation

If you would like further information of the pet sitting and pet boarding services Sallyann can offer, please contact her on 0845 094 0937 or 07966 782226, send an email to the address below or complete an online enquiry form.

Pet Care, Pet Sitting and Pet Boarding Services offered by Petpals Darlington

• Dog Walking

  Making use of the many areas of natural beauty found locally, our dedicated team of dog walkers aim to give your dog a stimulating and enjoyable walk in a safe environment. These can be individual visits for your dog(s) and or multi walks, with up to four dogs at a time transported in our purpose fitted vehicles.

• Puppy/Elderly Dog Visits

  We can offer you units of time during the day to visit your dog(s). During the visit we walk, play, and if required help with ongoing training, toileting breaks, etc., along with, of course, lots of TLC.

• Doggy Home Boarding

  We offer a home boarding experience where your dog can stay in the home of one of our carefully selected, dedicated carers. You will be given the opportunity to meet the carer before you go away and to see where your pet will be staying. When your dog stays with a Petpals family they are treated as one of the family with all the usual sights, sounds and smells of family life, but best of all they will receive all the love, cuddles and attention they deserve!!

• Cat Visits

  Petpals has proven to be very popular with clients that want to leave their cats at home in there own environment, with familiar comforts and smells, particularly with elderly cats and cats that need medication. Our clients can go away safe in the knowledge that Petpals Darlington & Yarm are visiting their cats to feed, clean litter trays if required, play, along with lots of TLC.

• Home Sitting

  A real alternative to kennels, your pets can remain in their own familiar surroundings, with their own routines and food while you are away. 

• Small Pets and Exotics

  Petpals Darlington & Yarm also have varied experience in caring for small pets and exotics and are happy to provide home visits for these types of pets too.

• Pet Taxi

  At Petpals Darlington & Yarm we are equipped with pet friendly vehicles. These are fitted with safety cages of various sizes with a vet bed on top of removable rubber matting for hygiene. We can transport everything from small pets and cats to giant dog breeds such as Pyreneans. We can also help with trips to the vets, your pet’s groomer, or full relocations nationwide. 

If there is a service you require that is not listed above, or you have any special requirements, please contact us and we will do our best to help.

Petpals Darlington Testimonials

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• ‘Sally is wonderful - cares for her charges very well and does a great job. Two staffies, two cats and the fish were well looked after. AnthonyJD@petfotos.com’
• ‘As always, a brilliant service received. I wouldn't hesitate in recommending Petpals to anyone! Claire Green’
• ‘My black labrador has been home boarding with Petpals for two years now and, apart from one occasion, always with his Auntie Sandra. The number of stays now total sixteen so it has cost me an absolute fortune. Unfortunately Ole (my dog) insists that my wife go on holiday as often as possible in order that he can go on his jollies too. He is so well looked after that he has to be dragged away on our return....it's so embarrassing! On a serious note, Sandra and her family are marvellous. I never worry about Ole, knowing he is being looked after better than he is at home. I would recommend Petpals and Sandra in particular to anyone.....just be careful that your dog doesn't decide he/she isn't coming home. Ole has also been walked on occasion by David.....again Ole has enjoyed himself enormously. The only criticism I can make is that sometimes he has had to mix with the Boys from the Boro instead of his preferred company, the Wags from Wynyard. Chris Cannon’
• ‘I can't speak highly enough of Sal and her team. Although usually we only need the occasional dog walk, we're always treated with the same friendly, first class care and attention as regular customers. We've just had our first long weekend away in years, confidently leaving dog, cats and home in Sal's safe-keeping - and you can't put a price on that kind of peace of mind. In any case, the service is incredibly reasonable; it would certainly have cost far more to put Bryan, Jeffrey and George into kennels and catteries, they wouldn't have been together (which would have really distressed them as they've never been apart or away from home), their routines would have been disrupted and, at the end of a long, exhausting journey, we would have had to run around collecting them from their various locations before we could relax. Instead, we walked in to settled, contented pets, a cheery word from Sal before she dashed off to her next assignment and were able to unwind over a cup of tea Heather Carter’
• ‘I can only say what an excellent service! Sallyann has been great with our staffy (Stella) who can sometimes be grumpy with other dogs! I got sallyann through a recomendation from a friend and would not hesitate in passing her details on! A big thankyou! D. Gray D Gray’
• ‘I just feel so fortunate to have found PetPals of Darlingotn and Yarm. Sally-Ann and David run an amazingly efficient, incredibly friendly and innovative service for people like me who need help with our doggies. Nothing is too much trouble for them and I know that I can count on them and their talented team absolutely. Furthermore, their attention to detail and ability with animals is second to none. I have just come back from a 3 week break and have been given detailed feedback PLUS photos of my dogs' stay with them. In short, I cannot recommend them highly enough and I wish them and their incredible team every well-deserved success for the future. Many many thanks. Gillian Wilkinson’
• ‘Petpals provide a great service! We have a 7 month old beagle that loves his walks with petpals, he has made lots of new friends! It is great to come back from work and read what he has been up to on his walk. They are very flexible and if I need a walk changing to a different date it is never a problem. They have also lent us a crate to stop our naughty beagle from chewing through everything in our house, they are fantastic! Amie Murphy’
• ‘Sal and her team are brilliant with my dogs. I couldn't do my job without them and when I go on holiday I can rest easy knowing my pets are in good hands. Thank you all. Carloine’
• ‘I love my walkies with Sallyann and her team! I get to play with lots of other doggies and get to socialise with doggies which I wouldn't otherwise meet. I've stayed wtih Sallyann and her family for my holidays last year and had a wonderful time! I've even asked my owner to ask if I can go again this year. Being a doggy that likes to play, get lots of cuddles and feel safe I'm so pleased my owner contacted Sallyann. I even had a poorly leg last year and Sallyann was fantastic helping to look after me. Winston’
• ‘Finding out about Petpals and meeting Sally Ann and some of her carers has been the best thing that has happened since we got our dog. Care can be sorted at very short notice, and all the families Kal has stayed with have been fantastic. I would happily recommend Petpals (and often do) to anyone who doesn't want to put their pets in kennels. J.Wall’
• ‘Petpals is a very well run, professional organisation. I recommend them who I suspect may benefit from their excellent services. Pet Pals Darlington and Yarm, run by David & Sallyann Gray is in my opinion a superb service. I have come to know them both very well over the past couple of years. I have also had the privilege of meeting several of their members of staff, from walkers to sitters. I am sure people want the best for their pets. I have no hesitation in saying that with Pet Pals Darlington & Yarm one receives a professional, knowledgeable, caring and very reliable service, and they are all very nice people too! D.Davies’
• ‘We used Sally Ann (Petpals Darlington) to visit our 3 cats, 1 rabbit and fish while we were on holiday. It was so nice to relax by the pool knowing that someone was regularly visiting our home and cats. It was fabulous to return home to a day by day log that was left for us and a wee gift, especially as we have a painfully shy cat who even he seemed to take to a "stranger" visiting him. We'd like to say a big, big thankyou for such a wonderful service and we will definitely be using Sally Ann and her fab team again!! ’
• ‘The service that Darlington pet pals provide my 2 dogs is 1st class. We have 2 King Charles spaniel's one 8 months and one 6 months old. We have used Sal and her team's services since August 2008 and the team have tailored our walks and visits to suit our dogs. For an example of how great the service is, when our eldest king Charles got his new friend in November 08 and she was not able to go out doors, a puppy visit was combined with a walk for our older dog so that he didn't go without. Also the puppy service that the team offers is such a life line, When we got our King Charles in August we had 3 weeks of work and then the wrench of going back to work and leaving our baby was eased knowing that Sal was coming in twice a day to complete a puppy visit. ’
• ‘Now both our dogs are seen to by pet pals 3-4 times a week, the walks help them to learn to be social with other dogs and humans, We also love to read the daily diary that is kept for the dogs when we come home from work. The dogs know and love Sal to bits, when we visit Sal at her home they drag us up to the front door and when Sal visits the house there little tails polish my wooden floor a treat. ’
• ‘This is a service that we could not do without as it allows us to have a working life and the love and joy of still having our dogs without them being left alone all day.. Also I would like to say a massive thanks to Sal for the short notice visits that she has done for us over the last few weeks. No request ever seems to be a problem. We have complete peace of mind with this service and will use the service for many years to come. We would highly recommend you and your team to anyone who is thinking of using a dog walker/pet sitter. Again, A massive thank you. ’

Petpals Darlington. Links to Services in the Local Area

• Vets
• Pet shops and supplies
• Pet and animal advice
• Pet services
• Charities & rescue centres
• Dog warden

Petpals Darlington News

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In our newsletter, you will notice the Facebook logo at the bottom of our signature page. Jasper was up to his old tricks again and shortly after we announced he had set up his own account, he was hot footing it down to the Northern Echo who produced a fantastic news story for him. If you haven't seen it simply go to our area page on the web site and click on news and you can read all about him. We'll put an update in the next newsletter with his friends but his reach has already got him new friends in British Columbia and Australia!!

Our current newsletter is available to download here, or join our email list to get it sent to you.

Petpals Dog Walk

It's freezing, raining, and soggy underfoot - so it must be time to go back to the beach for a St. Valentines day walk and who better to spend it with than your faithful, reliable, much loved best friend. Yes- the dog!

Anyone fancying a romantic stroll along the beach can meet on Sunday 14th February at 10.30am in the second car park on Redcar Stray (nearest to Marske) - Be warned though you might have to share this romantic experience with about 40 other pooches and their families but what else would you rather do on a Sunday morning!!

For sat nav users the postcode to use is TS10 3RA - See you there and remember to wrap up warm and bring a towel or two for the dog!

Jasper in the news!

See Jasper making a BIG impression with The Northern Echo. See the article here

See Jasper on Facebook

See Jasper’s facebook page. Keep up to date with us here.

Other News

Where pets are kings

EVERY pet has its little ways...

One little dog, for instance, had its own bedroom, its own bed and its own routine, which meant that every night when Sallyann Gray was looking after him, she tucked him up in bed and pulled the duvet snugly over him.

"It was what he was used to and what the owner wanted us to do," says Sallyann, "so, of course, that's what we did."

Sallyann and husband David run the local Petpals, which will basically care for your pets as well as you would, right down to its very special routine.

Dog walking, pet sitting, cat visiting.... [read full article]

A year of kindness

Sallyanne Grey and her husband David run Petpals (Darlington and Yarm), an all purpose pet service that includes walking caring, dog sitting and pet taxis. They were very helpful when a darlington reader had to take her dog to the vet. But when a few weeks later, the same reader had to take her dog Nell and have her put down, Sallyanne and David were really brilliant. [read full article]

SAD dogs cured by Petpals

The clocks going back, bonfire night and gathering of leaves in the gardens are all signs that winter is fast approaching and with it the fact walking the dog in the daytime becomes more difficult to the working family.

The PDSA recently published a survey that found a third of dog owners found that their dogs were affected by SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with the dark winter months inducing depression. Half of all dog owners found that their animal spent longer asleep during winter and 20% said their best friend was less lively. [read full article]