Cat visits in Richmond that fit your day
Feed, fresh water, litter, a little play and a photo update on every Richmond visit. Cat visits in Richmond run CAD 20 to CAD 35 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 Richmond
Richmond sits about a metre above sea level behind dykes, so a winter visit starts with a look at the crawl space. Rain runs 123.7 mm in October and 171.2 mm in November. Freezing is a ten-night event in January, so the worry is a furnace, not a split pipe. August afternoons near 22.4C call for a fan and a closed blind.
When demand peaks
Richmond schools take spring vacation March 12 to March 29, 2027, and that block fills first. Households then travel over the two weeks the schools are shut from December 21. Summer bookings open after the last student day on June 29, and KPU's reading break, February 15 to 20, adds a short one.
Know your Richmond areas
Brighouse and West Cambie hold the newest towers, and the apartments there put dozens of cats inside a few blocks. A visit starts at a lobby fob rather than a driveway. Riverdale is the other kind of call, detached streets in the northwest where each key is its own trip.
Cat homes in Richmond
Richmond counts 81,080 occupied dwellings, and 34,065 of them are apartments against 24,435 single-detached houses. Most cats here live behind a lobby door and a fob. Winter is wet rather than cold, and freezing is a ten-night event in January, so they stay in.
Bilingual owners book faster
Owners in Brighouse and West Cambie will message you in Chinese, in a city where 37,000 residents speak Mandarin most often at home and 36,515 speak Cantonese against 96,275 in English. Answering in the same language gets the booking confirmed sooner.
What a cat sitting job in Richmond 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 Richmond 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 Richmond 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 Richmond. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Drop-in cat visits
CAD 20 to CAD 35 per 20 to 30 minute visit
House sitting
CAD 40 to CAD 65 per night
Overnight boarding
CAD 40 to CAD 65 per night
Two clients in Richmond on twice-daily visits for five days is 20 visits. At CAD 28 a visit that is CAD 560, and you keep up to 90%. Holiday weeks stack two or three trips on top of that.
Richmond areas that book the most
Cat sitting in Richmond is booked from the City Centre and West Cambie apartments, and the calls cluster on the March school break and the December holidays.
British Columbia licenses neither dog walkers nor pet sitters. Richmond licenses every dog over eight weeks (Bylaw 7138) and requires a leash in public (Bylaw 7932, s.2.3.2.1). A dwelling holds three dogs, an apartment unit two. Walking more than three dogs off-leash needs an off-leash permit (Bylaw 7360). 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 Richmond
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 Richmond 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 Richmond, 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 Richmond
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 Richmond 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 Richmond
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Cat sitting jobs near Richmond
Cover more than one patch. Each city page has its own local rates and demand notes.
Start earning in Richmond
Set your own rate. CAD 32,000 Protection Plan on every booking, cashback that keeps your clients rebooking, and fast payouts to your bank.