diff --git a/bundles/org.openhab.binding.surepetcare/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/surepetcare/internal/SurePetcareAPIHelper.java b/bundles/org.openhab.binding.surepetcare/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/surepetcare/internal/SurePetcareAPIHelper.java
index e9a1747384e30..305dbcf04763c 100644
--- a/bundles/org.openhab.binding.surepetcare/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/surepetcare/internal/SurePetcareAPIHelper.java
+++ b/bundles/org.openhab.binding.surepetcare/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/surepetcare/internal/SurePetcareAPIHelper.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
 
 import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNullByDefault;
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ public synchronized void login(String username, String password) throws Authenti
             setConnectionHeaders(request);
             request.content(new StringContentProvider(SurePetcareConstants.GSON
                     .toJson(new SurePetcareLoginCredentials(username, password, getDeviceId().toString()))));
-            ContentResponse response = request.send();
+            ContentResponse response = request.timeout(SurePetcareConstants.DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT, TimeUnit.SECONDS).send();
             if (response.getStatus() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                 SurePetcareLoginResponse loginResponse = SurePetcareConstants.GSON
                         .fromJson(response.getContentAsString(), SurePetcareLoginResponse.class);
@@ -450,7 +451,7 @@ private ContentResponse executeAPICall(Request request) throws SurePetcareApiExc
         while (retries > 0) {
             try {
                 setConnectionHeaders(request);
-                ContentResponse response = request.send();
+                ContentResponse response = request.timeout(SurePetcareConstants.DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT, TimeUnit.SECONDS).send();
                 if ((response.getStatus() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK)
                         || (response.getStatus() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_CREATED)) {
                     return response;
diff --git a/bundles/org.openhab.binding.surepetcare/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/surepetcare/internal/SurePetcareConstants.java b/bundles/org.openhab.binding.surepetcare/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/surepetcare/internal/SurePetcareConstants.java
index 1ffab13d3cc8d..13a474203364e 100644
--- a/bundles/org.openhab.binding.surepetcare/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/surepetcare/internal/SurePetcareConstants.java
+++ b/bundles/org.openhab.binding.surepetcare/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/surepetcare/internal/SurePetcareConstants.java
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ public class SurePetcareConstants {
 
     public static final long DEFAULT_REFRESH_INTERVAL_TOPOLOGY = 36000; // 10 hours
     public static final long DEFAULT_REFRESH_INTERVAL_STATUS = 300; // 5 mins
+    public static final int DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT = 8;
 
     public static final String PROPERTY_NAME_ID = "id";