About Us
We’re So Glad You’ve Found Our McKinney and Melissa Pet Sitters
We are Erick and Susan Gary, owners of Top Dog Pet Sitters.
Our family has loved Carmi (a Cockapoo), Maggie, (a Mini Schnauzer), Sasha (an Adora-doodle), Lexie (a Morkie), Keena, and Daisy as well as cats Peanut, Moe, Addie, Dahlia, and Milo, guinea pigs Henry and Charlie, fish (Fish, Athena, Calypso, Blart) and frogs.
Awards & Recognition
Pet Psychology & Pet Sitting Experience
People often ask us how we got started in this business. Top Dog Pet Sitters evolved from our life experiences. Susan is an ordained minister and left congregational ministry in 2011. Erick works in the defense industry. For 30+ years we have provided care for our friend’s and neighbors’ pets when they needed help and always enjoyed doing so. When we became “empty nesters”, Susan wanted to fill her extra time doing “something,” in addition to her full-time job. She worked quite some time for a pet sitting business, loving it immensely but observed several ways pet care and customer service could be improved. We combined Susan’s professional pet-sitting experience, her certificate in pet psychology, her calling to care for people, combined our love for animals, and Top Dog Pet Sitters was born.
The other question people ask us is why we take care of pets. True, cleaning out a litter box, sweating in the Texas heat, and walking in the rain are not glamorous ways to spend a day. Caring for pets, and their humans, is a calling for us. We are professional pet care providers committed to providing the highest level of pet and client care in the McKinney and Melissa communities.
We will LOVE YOUR PET, RESPECT YOUR HOME and EXCEED YOUR EXPECTATIONS!
Susan
Pet CPR/First Aid Certified through Pet First Aid 4U
Background Check, Pinkerton
“Leash Reactive Dogs” workshop participant
Texas Pet Sitter’s Conference, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Member of Pet Sitters International
Member of McKinney Chamber of Commerce
Master of Divinity, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University
Erick
Background Check, Pinkerton
“Leash Reactive Dogs” workshop participant
Texas Pet Sitter’s Conference, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Member of Pet Sitters International
Member of McKinney Chamber of Commerce
B.B.A., Amber University
Work with the best pet care company in McKinney and Melissa!
We mean that literally — we have the awards to prove it.
Top Dog Pet Sitters was voted the 2025 Best Pet Services in McKinney by the McKinney Chamber of Commerce, and also in 2024, 2023, and 2022. Also, we were voted Best Pet Services in Melissa in the Reader’s Choice awards for 2025. Visit our Services page, or our Service Area page, or call us directly at 214 244-1629.