Look after cats in Burnaby and keep up to 90%
Take only the cat visits that fit your schedule around Burnaby. Cat visits in Burnaby run CAD 22 to CAD 40 per 20 to 30 minute visit, and you keep up to 90% of every booking.
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Local know-how pays off in Burnaby
A Burnaby cat visit is a damp check as much as a feed. November brings 174.6 mm of precipitation and December another 172.2 mm, so a sitter looks at the basement before locking up. Ten January nights sit at or below 0C, which is furnace weather rather than burst-pipe weather. July highs of 22.4C mean water bowls and closed blinds.
When demand peaks
Burnaby's spring break, March 15 to 25, 2027, fills first, and classes are back March 30. The December 21 to January 1 closure is the second wave, with school returning January 4. Summer bookings start once students finish on June 29. SFU's reading break, February 16 to 21, adds a short one.
Know your Burnaby areas
Edmonds and Lougheed are two of Burnaby's four town centres, so the towers put a lot of cats inside a short radius. A visit there starts at a fob and a lobby rather than a driveway. Capitol Hill is the other end of the job, up the hill north of Hastings Street.
Cat homes in Burnaby
Burnaby counts 101,140 occupied dwellings and only 19,080 of them are single-detached. Apartments hold 53,550, so most cats here live above a lobby door. Winter is wet rather than cold, with ten January nights at or below 0C, and the cats stay in.
Bilingual owners book faster
Some owners will message you in Mandarin or Cantonese. Burnaby counts 25,565 residents who speak Mandarin most often at home and 19,090 who speak Cantonese, and 16,060 who can hold a conversation in neither English nor French. A saved Chinese greeting in your first message saves a round trip.
What a cat sitting job in Burnaby actually involves
Cat sitting is a drop-in service, so the cat never leaves home. You let yourself in with a key or a code the owner sets up, spend 20 to 30 minutes on food, water, the litter box and some company, check the place over, and send a photo before you lock up. Owners in Burnaby book it because a cat that stays home stays calm. One traveler booking twice a day for ten days is twenty visits from a single client.
Keys and access
Most Burnaby owners hand over a spare key, a lockbox code or a smart-lock code at the meet-and-greet. Agree where the key lives and how you get in if the code fails, and confirm it before the owner leaves town.
The visit
Fresh food and water, the litter box scooped, a look at the cat and a few minutes of play or a brush. You note anything off, like a skipped meal or a hidden cat, so the owner hears it from you first.
The update
A photo and two lines in the app after every visit. Owners who cannot see their cat for a week live on those messages, and a sitter who sends them without being asked is the one they rebook.
Choose your services, set your own rates
Typical Petme rates in Burnaby. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Drop-in cat visits
CAD 22 to CAD 40 per 20 to 30 minute visit
House sitting
CAD 45 to CAD 75 per night
Overnight boarding
CAD 45 to CAD 75 per night
The math for Burnaby: two owners traveling Monday to Friday, two visits a day each, CAD 31 a visit. That is 20 visits and CAD 620 in a week, and you keep up to 90% of it.
Burnaby areas that book the most
Cat sitting bookings in Burnaby come from the Edmonds and Lougheed towers, and they cluster on the March spring break and the December holidays.
British Columbia licenses neither dog walkers nor pet sitters. Burnaby's Animal Control Bylaw 1991 licenses every dog over four months (s.3) and caps a leash at 2 m in public (s.5). A dwelling unit holds three dogs (s.6), and a home business needs a City licence. Pet-care income is self-employment income, reported on form T2125 with your T1 return. GST/HST registration is required once taxable revenue passes the CAD 30,000 small-supplier threshold in four consecutive quarters.
Built for sitters in Burnaby
Keep up to 90%
You set your rate. Petme keeps a low service fee, and you keep up to 90% of every booking.
Full schedule control
No assigned shifts and no minimum hours. Accept or decline each request and pause your profile whenever you need to.
Protected on every booking
CAD 32,000 in Protection Plan comes with every confirmed booking, so you are never on the hook alone if something goes wrong.
What Burnaby owners look for in a cat sitter
Cat owners book on trust more than on price. The profile details below are the ones they ask about.
Comfort with shy cats
Many cats hide from a stranger for the first visit. Owners want to hear that you will sit with the cat, not chase it, and that a hidden cat still gets fed and its box scooped.
Reliability, twice a day
A cat on medication or a diabetic cat needs visits at the same time every day. Say what your schedule can hold in Burnaby, and mention any medication experience, even with your own cat.
A tidy visit
Litter cleaned properly, nothing left out, doors and windows as you found them, and a message with a photo. Owners come home and look for those signs before they look at anything else.
How to start earning in Burnaby
1. Download Petme
Download the Petme app from the App Store or Google Play.
2. Build your profile
Add photos, a short bio, and the Burnaby neighborhoods you cover.
3. Verify your ID
Complete identity verification so owners can trust your profile before they book.
4. Set your rates and accept bookings
Set your own rates per service, choose your schedule, and accept the bookings you want.
Cat sitting jobs in Burnaby
What new sitters ask before signing up on Petme in Burnaby.
Is anyone hiring for cat sitting in Burnaby?
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Is there cat sitting work near Metrotown and Brentwood?
What happens during a drop-in cat visit?
Do I pick my own cat sitting hours in Burnaby?
What protection do I get on cat sitting bookings?
Is this a part-time or full-time job in Burnaby?
What happens to cat sitting work in Burnaby when the schools close in March?
What are cat sitting visits like in Burnaby?
Cat sitting jobs near Burnaby
Cover more than one patch. Each city page has its own local rates and demand notes.
Start earning in Burnaby
Set your own rate. CAD 32,000 Protection Plan on every booking, cashback that keeps your clients rebooking, and fast payouts to your bank.