Pick up cat visits across Franklin
Cat visits in Franklin stack up over the March 15 to 19 spring break, when school families leave and sitters cover twice-daily feeds. Cat visits in Franklin run $16 to $25 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 Franklin
Cat visits here turn on the thermostat. The Nashville airport station averages a 90.9 degree July high, so a failed air conditioner is the summer risk. January lows average 30.1 degrees, which makes a tripped furnace or a cold pipe the winter check. Spring storms bring the power cuts that reset feeders.
When demand peaks
Franklin Special School District sets the travel calendar. Winter break starts December 21, 2026, and spring break runs March 15 to 19, 2027, which is when twice-daily visits stack up. Thanksgiving week, November 23 to 27, books the same way, as does fall break in mid-October.
Know your Franklin areas
Cat work in Franklin is house calls: 21,018 of the city's 36,239 housing units are detached houses. Westhaven sits on the west edge and McKay's Mill on the east side near Cool Springs, so two evening visits often mean a drive across town.
Cat homes in Franklin
Cat sitting in Franklin is mostly house calls. Of the city's 36,239 housing units, 21,018 are detached houses, so a visit starts at a front door or garage keypad, not a lobby desk.
What a cat sitting job in Franklin actually involves
Get the garage code and the thermostat settings before the owner leaves. Most visits are to detached houses, so there is no front desk to call if a key fails, and a backup key with a neighbor saves a wasted drive across town.
Keys and access
Most Franklin 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 Franklin. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Drop-in cat visits
$16 to $25 per 20 to 30 minute visit
A typical Franklin week: two cats, two visits a day, five days, $21 per visit. 20 visits, $420, up to 90% kept. The visits take twenty to thirty minutes each and cluster where you already are.
Franklin areas that book the most
Cat sitting in Franklin books around school-break travel, with repeat trips from single-family households in Westhaven, Avalon and McKay's Mill.
Tennessee does not license pet sitters. State law, T.C.A. 44-8-408(b), makes it an offence for a dog to go uncontrolled on a street, public road or any place open to the public, so walks stay on leash. Franklin Zoning Ordinance Sec. 5.2.7 lists pet sitting as a home occupation, capped at two pets at a time kept mostly indoors. Pet-care income is self-employment, reported on Schedule C.
Built for sitters in Franklin
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 Franklin 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 Franklin, 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 Franklin
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 Franklin 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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Cat sitting jobs near Franklin
Cover more than one patch. Each city page has its own local rates and demand notes.
Start earning in Franklin
Set your own rate. $22,000 Protection Plan on every booking, cashback that keeps your clients rebooking, and fast payouts to your bank.
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