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Petrol money for cat sitting - WWYD?

spacecadet_99, 3 November, 2008 at 15:15

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Ex-lodger girl has agreed to cat sit for us while we're in Barcelona. It will involve her coming to our house once a day for 4 days (she can use timer bowls so she doesn't need to come more than that). She's just sent me an email asking about petrol money. Now, if I were doing this for someone I...

Ex-lodger girl has agreed to cat sit for us while we're in Barcelona. It will involve her coming to our house once a day for 4 days (she can use timer bowls so she doesn't need to come more than that).

She's just sent me an email asking about petrol money. Now, if I were doing this for someone I wouldn't expect payment for it personally. I was going to leave a bottle of wine out for her as a thank you. Her flat is less than 2 miles from our house so I would have thought any petrol consumption would be minimal - do you think £5 or £10 is reasonable? Somehow it's annoying me that she's asked for the money as I'd have rather given her the bottle of wine, but I guess we'd have to pay for a cattery. It's actually more to avoid stressing him out than to save money that we've asked although it would be £42 for the cattery

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  • Kazmerelda
    Beginner August 2006
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    I have just laughed very loud at KtC having a Fred Flintstone car ?

    Our neighbour used to look after our cat we always brought something back for her (after our trip to Scotland she was most appreciative of the 5 snowball cakes we gave her hehe). She wouldn't accept payment.

    We now have a cat sitter come in so no help on this one...I guess it depends on the relationship you have with her and the type of person she is. Me I would personally do that for a friend for nothing (and have done) but I know people who would ask for petrol.

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