Look after cats in Saint-Jérôme and keep up to 90%
Saint-Jérôme merged with Bellefeuille, Lafontaine and Saint-Antoine in 2002, so cat visits span four sectors on both sides of Highway 15. Cat visits in Saint-Jérôme 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 Saint-Jérôme
The Lachute station, 30 km west of Saint-Jérôme, logs 18.7 nights a year below -20, and 8.2 of them fall in January. On those nights a visit opens with the thermostat and a check on the water bowl. Snow on the ground drops from 20 cm at the end of March to none by the end of April. The same station counts 10 days a year above 30, so shut the blinds in a house with no air conditioning.
When owners travel
The Cégep de Saint-Jérôme autumn 2026 session runs from August 20 to December 22. Its last day of classes is December 14, so student sitters are free from late December into the new year. The college also keeps a semaine de mise à jour from October 13 to 16, a week with no classes at all.
Know your Saint-Jérôme areas
Centre-ville packs apartments around the cathedral and rue Saint-Georges, so two visits there fit on foot. Bellefeuille lies west of Highway 15, and Lafontaine sits in the northeast. Plan a car route between those two sectors, since the drive crosses the whole city.
Cat homes in Saint-Jérôme
Saint-Jérôme's 2021 census counts 13,895 single-detached houses and 4,155 duplex flats among 37,375 occupied homes. Cats there live indoors, and in a duplex you confirm which floor with the owner before the first cat visit.
Bilingual owners book faster
Canada is officially bilingual, and in Quebec, parts of New Brunswick and the Ottawa region owners search and message in French. A sitter who says in their profile that they work in French as well as English books faster in those neighbourhoods.
What a cat sitting job in Saint-Jérôme 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 Saint-Jérôme 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 Saint-Jérôme 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 Saint-Jérôme. 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
Cat work pays in repetition, not in single big tickets. Two clients in Saint-Jérôme away for a work week, each on two visits a day at CAD 28, is 20 visits and CAD 560. If the two homes sit in one neighborhood, that is a short round twice a day.
Saint-Jérôme areas you can cover
Cat sitting in Saint-Jérôme centres on low-rise apartments, 15,520 homes in buildings under five storeys, or 41.5% of occupied dwellings in the 2021 census.
Saint-Jérôme's by-law 0906 on animals and the control of dogs and cats has required, since 2020, that every cat over six months old be sterilized unless a veterinarian advises against it in writing. A dwelling may keep at most six pets, including no more than two dogs and four cats. 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. In Quebec the same threshold applies to QST.
Built for sitters in Saint-Jérôme
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 Saint-Jérôme 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 Saint-Jérôme, 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 Saint-Jérôme
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 Saint-Jérôme 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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Set your own rate. CAD 32,000 Protection Plan on every booking, cashback that keeps your clients rebooking, and fast payouts to your bank.