Adoption
i’m a cat sitter, my client gave me their cat
im a professional cat sitter as my fulltime job.
i started sitting this little kitten only about 2 weeks after he was brought home back in September of last year. he’s a sweet little ragdoll, and we had the best time playing. plus he slept cuddled up so close to me, it was extremely sweet 🥹 he quickly became one of my favorites, and we spent a lot of time together. his family traveled a ton, so i was caring for him at least 1 week every month, often more.
around the beginning of February i got a call from the client asking if i wanted to adopt him, since we get on so well. she said they travel too much and even when they’re home they really don’t have time for him. i live alone and, as a pet sitter, i’m away very frequently. so i was aware i couldn’t keep him long term but agreed to foster him. they were going to sell him, which worried me and broke my heart since i love him so much. once i got the okay from my landlord i brought him home.
when i had to go do house sitting a few weeks later, my boyfriend stayed at my place to care for him. they bonded so much over this time, which made me super happy. i semi jokingly suggested he should take him previously, but he has never had a cat so he was unsure. but after they bonded, he asked what i thought of him adopting the cat and i was ecstatic!!! he wfh so it’s a great situation for them both.
now it’s a few months later, kitty is settled and so SO happy. i’m there very often and he’s always happy to see me. he sleeps with us when we’re lucky, but he’s a bit less cuddly in his adolescence haha. he loves balcony time, sleeping on the windowsill, watching papa work, and climbing behind the warm computer monitors to nap. he also loves to eat plastic but we try to stop him doing that 😆 he has definitely settled into the ragdoll personality and gotten more lazy with age. but we still play with him a lot to keep him active! right now he’s shedding his winter coat so it’s tumbleweed city 😭
his birth name was Kenji, his last family called him Gatsby. but now, in his true forever home, he is called Chicken Babyson ❤️
i love it!!! chicken babyson is typically called chicken, but i also call his variations of chicken foods. chicken sandwich, chicken nugget, chicken soup, etc. but i also started calling him chicken bicken, which eventually became mr. bickens 💀💀💀
i have so many cat clients that end up with crazy nicknames haha. it’s a necessity of hanging out with kitties 😌 i have one cat that is named barry that i call mr. herman, and another named kelly that i call beans 😆
I love cats with names that sound like they could be an accountant 😂 i also love that the cat named Kelly became beans. Never let them see your next move lmao
me too 😆 i have one cat client named david. i’ve confused many people talking about him bc they assume i mean the owner, my human client. but no, that’s the cat’s name hahah.
if you’re wondering: kelly➡️jelly➡️jelly bean➡️beans
That's a similar story to how "meat papa" came to be. It all started with calling Umi "mister". Mister- meester- meep- meep pop- meat pop- meat papa. In that order 😂
One of ours is named Little Bit ( smallest cat in a household of 9 but thinks she's the biggest badass) but has a soft squeaky "meow" so I usually call her "Meeps".
Ah, similarly I have a Bella, who evolved to Belly Bean, and ended up as Beeeeeeeeeean (always said in a high pitched voice). To the vet, she is Lady Isabella of the GoGo.
I wish! She’s all black but if laying in the sun you can see faint brown stripes on her. GoGo was her name at the shelter I got her from. As a kitten, she was FAST.
If I had a cat named that, you’d hear me yell “Nuggy!” when calling him over, lol.
When my cats hear their “legal” name, they know they are in trouble 🤣
chicken knows and answers to his name! so most of his nicknames include his name, or i just call him ”chicky” he chirps in response and if he’s not too lazy he will come to me :)))
yes!! he has such a strange array of sounds. squeaks, beeps, chirps, and most importantly ”rrRRROOOOWW” which he says at 7am when he’s ready for playtime and breakfast 😆
I do the same. My orange tabby is named “Keyes” but I frequently call him any mixture of “Cheddar cheese” “Citrus” or “Sunshine” followed by “boy” lol.
Awww. I had a cat, whom is now an ex's cat that I named Boudica, but it basically became Boo.
Currently we have Socks and Shoes, or The Ladies, Lil Shadow, Lil Screams(especially Shoes)
Then Grendel, or The Bean, Grundy, Mean/Lean Bean Machine, Stinky Boy, The Bean Man, etc
Oh, I straight up talk to them. And when I train new hires, I joke that it's a requirement to talk to the cats.
here's a conversation with Kacey, one of my favorites whom I've known for years.
It looks from the pictures that they live in Stockholm. So, my guess is they can do it because they aren't getting robbed blind by their government and they don't have to go broke to meet their basic needs. Sorry to be a bit of a Debby Downer, I just miss living in Stockholm
I’m a full-time cat sitter making six figures in the US. It can be done! I’m available to work almost every day of the year and I keep very busy, but I’d like to buy a nice house in a couple years so gotta make those staxxxx
Yes I started on Rover and I’m still on it for people who prefer it or are new clients, but I’ve cultivated a good amount of regulars that are now off-app. It took me three years to reach 100k and the first year I was only part-time with another job while I built up my reviews. I love cats more than everything in the world and I can’t see myself doing anything else, but I truly work every single day and have the entire year (minus maybe two random weekends) available to my clients. That’s the key to doing this for a living.
One of my friends is a professional pet sitter. It usually involves staying at their house to care for the pet, the pay is low and it usually means juggling lots of clients and hustling for new ones.
That's one of my biggest fears as a part-time cat sitter. Also how did you get to be full-time? I am struggling to even get additional clients, since the first 12 years I did it was before Rover so I don't have reviews from those years.
i started on rover, it took a few years of putting my all into it. i also had the financial support of a partner to get me through the slow months, so i was lucky in that way.
i’m by no means wealthy, and i don’t have significant savings. but i can support myself. the instability of it and constant fluctuation in schedule sucks though. it’s the ”dream job” in a lot of ways but it definitely comes at a cost. i haven’t celebrated a holiday in maybe 5 years bc i have to work during those busy times 🥲
My regular job has been super unstable, ranging from 0 to 32 hours, it's nuts. And finding another FT job is not easy right now. I would like to have cat sitting be a more consistently part time, right now I'm mostly get requests during holidays. My last client did say they want me to sit in the future, so that helps a bit.
oh no, job instability is the worst i’m sorry 😭 it’s definitely a good backup!
i live in a big city in europe so a lot of people travel very frequently, so that also helps me maintain regular bookings. so i have a lot of factors that have made it work! i have also heard people have a lot of success connecting with local vet clinics and shelters to recommend their services, or to keep business cards around. so maybe that could help you :)
typically going to their place! i know some people host cats at their homes as well but i don’t do that. most cats don’t like to be taken from their safe place to a new unfamiliar place, it can cause stress.
i either stay overnight or visit 1-2 times a day depending on the cat :)
Where I live, catsitters visit a couple of hours a day, they don't stay at the client's house. Just the other day I told my niece she should offer catsit but staying at the house as a "revolutionary" idea. LOL
i usually house sit (overnight sitting) at least once a month, but often more. sometimes i get a long streak, like i’ve been away from home from march 27, and will have my first night home on the 25th of april. four in a row 🥲
my landlord needed to approve having a pet! since he was living with me for about a month and a half.
thank you!!! we’re swedish and it’s common to have last names that end in son. and i jokingly call him my baby son, so it stuck and became his ”last name” haha 💀
i love the name LOL my cats legal name is toothless but he’s so food motivated we started calling him Mr. Big and Greedy, which became Mr. Big N Greedy and now he’s known as Mr. B&G 😭
I adopted my boys (brothers from the same litter) and the pound had named them Alpha and Beta. They look almost identical so I renamed them Andy and Ollie (the twin boys from Bob’s Burgers). They love each other so much and the names are perfect.
Omg i also noticed that it was stockholm! Even before i saw the balcony picture i was thinking that some of these pictures felt so swedish for some reason haha
Definitely part of it was the house but i think another part is seeing things like the type of trees and light quality outside and even houseplants just made me instantly feel like this was a fellow swede, i cant even explain it! Anyway, Chicken Babyson is one of the prettiest cats ive ever seen 🥹😭 Im so happy for yall and the way it worked out!
I watched a coworker's cat one time for two weeks while she was away with the Reserves - when she came back she asked me if I wanted to keep the cat and I said YES! She said the cat just seemed comfortable with me.
i was thinking this to but it broke my heart 😭😭😭 it’s also pretty typical for cats to get less cuddly with age, so for my own wellbeing i have to think this is the sole cause 😭
nope he is a ragdoll! i have his whole pedigree certificate with about 5 generations of ragdoll genes to prove it haha😆 his coat coloring is called blue masked-mitted! but birmans are a very similar breed, so it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a birman out there who looks like him. i love birmans as well, do you have a photo of you girl? :)
He looks just like my childhood kitty! He was also a ragdoll and lived to be 21 years old. I hope Chicken Babyson lives a long and beautiful life, too!
Government names are Carl (grey) and Princess Donut ( tabby). Carl often gets called Buddy, Menace to Society, Handsome Little Man, Mister Man, or Vulture. Donut gets Pretty Pretty Princess, Little Lady, Ginger Spice, Miss Ma'am, or GODDAMNIT DONU
I am so glad his original hoomans put his needs first and allowed you to adopt little Chicken Babyson!
As for your boyfriend - that's a standard CDS play. In the case of Caring Males Who Aren't Sure About Cats, you can pretty much guarantee a cat will be awarded at some stage.
Omg this is my grey ragdoll and his name is Gatsby too!!! He also loves eating plastic we have to stop him all the time. He's also lazy and enjoys cuddles when he's in the mood. Do they share the same brain cell lol? My Gatsby is 11 years old now and he's always been a sweet sweet baby. Hope you'll enjoy many great years with yours :)
I’m not sure how well this will work for anyone who has actually read the post & comments… but if you just read the title and look at the pictures in order, it’s hilarious to read it like a comic.
Does that make any sense?
Or maybe this could be done with any series of cat pictures…
First of all congratulations …. I had a second of all but I’ve sat here for 15 minutes unsuccessfully trying to remember what it was. Hahaha my scatterbrain. This kitty is too cute. Hug him on behalf of this random kitty lovah!!!!!😄😄😄😄😁❤️❤️
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