Pick up cat visits across Markham
Regular cat clients around Unionville and Cornell come back trip after trip. Cat visits in Markham 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 Markham
Markham's January sits at -10.1 C overnight, and Buttonville's record low is -35.2 C. A furnace that quits in a cold snap is why owners hand over a key at all. Heat works in reverse: 18 July days pass humidex 30, and a Milliken apartment with the air conditioning off warms by mid-afternoon.
When demand peaks
Mid-winter break runs March 15 to 19, 2027, and fills before anything else. Schools close from December 21 to January 1, 2027, which is the longest stretch away. Cottage weeks empty Berczy and Wismer houses through July and August, once elementary classes end on June 29, 2027.
Know your Markham areas
Markham counts 23,310 condominium units among 110,865 dwellings. Unionville and Markville sit close enough that one key round covers several homes without moving the car much. Box Grove at the east end is its own trip, so handovers there get booked together.
Cat homes in Markham
Markham has 23,310 condominium units and 17,635 apartments in buildings of five storeys or more, out of 110,865 dwellings. Renters hold 20,325 households. Cats stay in through a January averaging -10.1 C overnight, so a visit reads the thermostat before it touches the litter.
Bilingual owners book faster
Booking messages here arrive in Cantonese and Mandarin. Cantonese is the mother tongue of 71,905 Markham residents and Mandarin of 49,380, out of 338,503 people. Tell an owner in Milliken which of the two you read and the booking thread gets shorter.
What a cat sitting job in Markham 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 Markham 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 Markham 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 Markham. 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
Two clients in Markham on twice-daily visits for five days is 20 visits. At CAD 31 a visit that is CAD 620, and you keep up to 90%. Holiday weeks stack two or three trips on top of that.
Markham areas that book the most
Cat sitting bookings in Markham come from households away over the March 15 to 19 break and from Unionville owners who travel in July.
Ontario licenses no dog walkers or pet sitters. Markham By-law 2018-91 section 3.1(1)(a) wants a dog licensed within thirty days of acquisition, and section 3.2(4) sets a leash of two metres off the owner's property. Section 3.8(1) caps a dwelling unit at two dogs over 16 weeks, and Keep there covers temporary control, so a dog in your care counts. 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 Markham
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 Markham 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 Markham, 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 Markham
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 Markham 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.
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