Find cat sitting work across Santa Monica
Santa Monica's two 2027 spring breaks start three weeks apart, with public schools out March 22 and Santa Monica College April 12. Cat visits in Santa Monica run $25 to $42 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 Santa Monica
Cold is not the problem on a Santa Monica cat visit. Both NOAA stations in town average zero nights below freezing, and the airport logs 3.5 nights under 40 a year. The airport averages 1.3 days at 90 or above in September and 1.6 in October. On those days a visit starts with the room temperature. February brings 3.34 inches of rain, the wettest month there.
When demand peaks
Cat sitting in Santa Monica follows the school calendars. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified breaks for Thanksgiving November 25 to 27 and for winter December 21 to January 1. Spring recess runs two weeks, March 22 to April 2, 2027. Santa Monica College breaks separately, April 12 to 18. Twice-a-day visits bunch into Christmas week, when both calendars are closed.
Know your Santa Monica areas
Downtown Santa Monica is the apartment core, with 2,247 units in 50-plus buildings in the tract at 5th Street. In Ocean Park, the tract by Hollister Avenue rents 2,764 of 3,328 homes. North of Montana is the house side, with 1,523 detached homes among 1,670 units around 20th Street.
Cat homes in Santa Monica
Cat sitting in Santa Monica is mostly apartment visits: renters hold 34,107 of the 47,297 occupied homes, and two in three of its 53,274 housing units sit in buildings of five or more. In the Wilmont tract around 7th Street, 3,424 of 3,743 occupied homes are rented.
What a cat sitting job in Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica. You set your own price for each service, and keep up to 90% of every booking.
Drop-in cat visits
$25 to $42 per 20 to 30 minute visit
The math for Santa Monica: two owners traveling Monday to Friday, two visits a day each, $34 a visit. That is 20 visits and $680 in a week, and you keep up to 90% of it.
Santa Monica areas that book the most
Santa Monica cat sitting comes from renters in Downtown Santa Monica and Ocean Park and from school families away over the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified breaks.
California licenses no pet sitters or dog walkers. Outside Council-designated dog areas, city code section 4.04.155 requires a leash six feet or less in fixed length on public property. Section 4.04.160 keeps dogs off playing fields and the beach sand. Section 4.04.145 caps a dwelling at four dogs and five cats over four months old. A home business needs Zoning Conformance Review and a city business license under section 9.31.160. Pet-care income is self-employment, reported on Schedule C.
Built for sitters in Santa Monica
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 Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica, 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 Santa Monica
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 Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica
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Start earning in Santa Monica
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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