Get paid to look after cats in Antioch
Contra Loma Estates alone puts 82 condo buildings of two-bedroom units inside a single Antioch cat sitting round. Cat visits in Antioch run $17 to $34 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 Antioch
Antioch summers are dry and hot, so a cat visit starts with the air conditioning and the water bowls: July normal highs are 91 degrees and August sits at 90. Winter flips it. January averages 2.78 inches of rain and 37-degree lows, and visits get done before dark because the light goes early.
When demand peaks
Travel weeks are the cat weeks. Antioch Unified runs its year from August 10, closes for Thanksgiving on November 26 and 27, and closes for winter break from December 21 through January 5. That December stretch is when morning and evening visits stack up on the same block.
Know your Antioch areas
Contra Loma Estates is 82 condo buildings of two-bedroom units, the tightest set of key handovers in town. Rivertown flats above the old downtown storefronts book the same way. Mira Vista Hills adds townhouses south of James Donlon Boulevard, where households travel and leave two cats.
Cat homes in Antioch
Renters occupy 39.7 percent of Antioch's 36,749 housing units, and Contra Loma Estates alone is 82 buildings of two-bedroom condos. Cats in those blocks live indoors year round. July normal highs of 91 degrees mean the windows stay shut and the air conditioning runs while owners are away.
Bilingual owners book faster
Expect messages and vaccination paperwork in Spanish from a good share of Antioch owners, since 23.8 percent of residents aged five and over speak Spanish at home and 36.4 percent of the city is Hispanic. A bilingual profile carries weight in Rivertown and Sunset.
What a cat sitting job in Antioch 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 Antioch 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 Antioch 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 Antioch. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Drop-in cat visits
$17 to $34 per 20 to 30 minute visit
Two clients in Antioch on twice-daily visits for five days is 20 visits. At $26 a visit that is $520, and you keep up to 90%. Holiday weeks stack two or three trips on top of that.
Antioch areas that book the most
Antioch cat sitting concentrates in the condo blocks of Contra Loma Estates and the Rivertown flats above downtown, where owners travel and leave a key.
California licenses no pet sitter or dog walker. Antioch Municipal Code Section 6-1.501 bars an animal at large or unleashed in a park, and Section 6-1.102 caps restraint at a six-foot leash. Section 6-1.303 allows three dogs over six months per dwelling without a multiple pet permit, and requires a kennel permit for dogs kept commercially, boarding included. Home occupation rules allow animal boarding only for those permit holders, on a Home-Based Business License. Pet-care income is self-employment, reported on Schedule C.
Built for sitters in Antioch
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
$22,000 in Protection Plan comes with every confirmed booking, so you are never on the hook alone if something goes wrong.
What Antioch 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 Antioch, 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 Antioch
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 Antioch 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 Antioch
What new sitters ask before signing up on Petme in Antioch.
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Cat sitting jobs near Antioch
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