Usually yes — a little. Some companies add a flat pet fee; others simply quote more time. JAS publishes both: a flat $25 line called Pets in home (dogs/cats) that you can add yourself, and a $125 Pet-hair deep cleaning row for heavy buildup, with the scope confirmed from photos before anyone charges it.
Both models are defensible. What isn’t defensible is meeting either one on the invoice. Fur, dander and the grit a cat tracks out of the box add real vacuuming and detail minutes, so a pet home does cost somewhat more almost anywhere. The only question that matters is whether you saw the number before the crew knocked.
That’s how the number gets built. If you’d rather just see yours, tell us about the place — bedrooms, bathrooms, and the ZIP — and we’ll write back with a price.
Two models: a flat pet fee, or more quoted time
Ask ten Miami cleaning companies and you get two answers wearing different clothes. One adds a named pet line — a fixed amount on top of the base price, the same for a beagle as for three huskies. The other never writes the word pet on the invoice and simply quotes a bigger number, because the estimator already assumed extra time the moment you mentioned the dogs. Same money, different transparency.
The flat-fee model is easier to compare across companies — and easier to resent, because a fixed line looks like a surcharge for owning a dog. The quoted-time model feels friendlier and hides the math: you never learn what the pets cost, so you cannot tell whether it was $20 or $120. We run both on purpose, with the numbers visible.
What the JAS pet lines actually cost
The booking flow prices two pet rows on screen. Here they are as published:
- Pets in home (dogs/cats) — $25 flat. Everyday touch-up for homes with pets — light hair pickup on floors and furniture.
- Pet-hair deep cleaning — $125. Conservative heavy-buildup estimate; final scope is confirmed from photos.
Both are flat lines per household, not per animal: a second dog does not double them. On a deep clean the heavy row appears in the booking menu as a starting price, from $125, because serious buildup is a scope question — and that page is where the work gets sized — starting at $349 on our rates, for a 4–6 hour visit with a 2-person team. Enter a Naples ZIP (341xx) instead of a Miami-Dade one and the same two rows price at that market’s rates: $29 and $139.
Everything else lands in the quote as time, exactly as the residential cleaning page puts it: “pets that shed, add-ons like inside-the-oven or inside-the-fridge, and building logistics — gated communities, condo elevators, front-desk check-in — can add time. Tell us up front in your booking notes and your quote reflects reality, with no surprises at the door.” The base being added to is the visit that page publishes — 2–3 hours with a 2-person team — starting at $189 on our Miami-Dade rates.
Why fur is minutes, and minutes are the price
The delta isn’t a tax on owning animals — it is extra passes. Our deep-clean page names where a pet home shows itself: “hair under furniture, dander on baseboards and vents, nose prints on glass doors.” None of that gets handled in the same pass as a fur-free house.
- How much it sheds. A heavy-coated dog in a Miami apartment sheds year-round — there is no winter here to pause it — so the vacuum comes off the floor and onto upholstery, baseboards and vent grilles with the attachments on. That is a second pass across surfaces another home never needs.
- More than one pet. Two animals don’t double the fee, but they do multiply the surfaces: two beds, two feeding stations, twice as many favorite corners where hair piles up unseen.
- Litter tracking. A box leaves a ring of grit on the floor around it and a fine dust film on whatever sits nearby. That is a sweep, a damp pass and a wipe-down — work a boxless home never creates.
- Accidents. An enzyme treatment has to soak, dwell for the label’s full time, and air-dry — hours, not minutes. That is why a discovered accident is its own job rather than a minute someone quietly folds into the visit.
Add it up and the honest number is somewhat more, not dramatically more — which is exactly what a published $25 line and a photo-confirmed $125 line are shaped to say. The full ranking of what moves a quote — size first, then condition, then details like these — is in what factors affect the price of a house cleaning.
Say it at booking, not at the door
The booking flow asks. Step two carries a “Pets in the home” toggle that explains itself in its own words — “Helps us bring extra lint rollers + pet-safe products.” — and, to be plain about the mechanics: switching it on puts the heavy line, Pet-hair deep cleaning at $125, into the estimate you are already looking at. The flat $25 Pets in home (dogs/cats) row is the one you pick yourself from the add-ons list. Either way, the number is on screen before you confirm anything.
Skipping it is the expensive choice, because the alternative is the re-quote our Terms describe: “If the scope on arrival is materially different (for example, additional rooms or heavy build-up), we will re-quote with you before doing extra work — never silently.” Nothing changes on your invoice without your agreement — but a doorstep conversation with the crew waiting is a worse conversation than a checkbox the night before.
If what you’re still deciding is how often the crew should come, that question has its own article: whether biweekly cleaning is enough for a home with pets or kids. And the day-to-day between visits — brushing, hair tactics, odor control — lives in our Miami pet-home guide, which also covers how we work when animals are home.
A different question from “is it safe for my dog?”
Money and chemistry get asked in one breath and answered on different pages. What the crew brings, what fragrance-free means, and what to do about a sensitive animal is in whether professional cleaning products are safe for pets. This article is only the number.
FAQ
Is the pet fee charged per pet or per home?
Per home. Both published rows — Pets in home (dogs/cats) at $25 and Pet-hair deep cleaning at $125 — are flat lines, so a second dog or a third cat does not multiply them. What moves the number is condition, not headcount: the heavy row is the confirmation-required one, and its final scope is confirmed from photos before it is charged.
Does the pet line apply to a deep clean or a move-out too?
Yes — the $25 row is offered on the residential services: standard, recurring, deep clean and move-out. It is not offered on the Airbnb turnover flow, where the pet question belongs to the host’s own guest policy. On a deep clean the heavy pet-hair row is published as a starting price, from $125, because that work is sized to what the photos actually show.
What if I forget to mention the pets until the crew arrives?
Then you get the conversation instead of a silent charge. Our Terms publish the rule: if the scope on arrival is materially different — additional rooms or heavy build-up, for example — we re-quote with you before doing extra work, never silently. Nothing lands on your invoice without your agreement, but a doorstep conversation is a worse one than a checkbox the night before.