How much to pay 14yo neighbour to feed cat once a day for a week while we're away?

[TropicofCapricorn]

Hi, how much do you think is sensible for them?

Come in, one sachet, one scoop of biscuits, top up water. Only needs one time a day.

£20?

It's okay, I can do it for £0 a day. No bother.

I think £5 a day is reasonable and as for “organise themselves”, it does mean they have to actually have some outdoor clothes on and interrupt whatever they’re doing. Sounds like it’s sorted anyway.

Excellent, all sorted then.

Not can't go out the front through the cat flap... Can just get to the porch.

That other poster isn't my neighbour.

Giving some one a lift to and from work every day is not the same as a teen walking across a drive and feeding a very easy cat once a day for 6 days. He still has the entire rest of the day to see his friends, even with this extremely time consuming task.
. But never mind. Other neighbours will do it.

Gotta love MN. Cat's Protection will be paying you a visit soon OP.

Does anyone pay their adult next door neighbour to pop in and feed their cat? We never have. We just brought them goodies from our holiday. But then I do favours for them too. Isn't that what neighbours do?

"So what"? You really are rude. You said you didn't have a litter tray and no one you know has one. I was merely pointing out that some people do and there are reasons for that choice.

Ok, but people are making out I'm wrong and a bad cat owner etc

It’s not about how long it takes, it’s about the commitment, which means not going out, not sleeping over at a mates, being reliable. Checking the food is being eaten and the cat is ok.
That costs a fiver a day

“Hourly” rate is irrelevant because there is no world in which the 14 year old bounces from cat feeding job to cat feeding job getting 12 done in an hour.

£30 and a giant toblerone.
Interesting responses. I initially thought £50.

I know my neighbour pays another neighbour’s 12 yr old £5 a day for watering plants when she’s away.

What? Of course you can go out or have a sleepover, what on earth are you talking about? It’s feeding a bloody cat. Stick a daily reminder in your phone, job done. If it’s an hour or two later than yesterday, so what?

Get a grip @TropicofCapricorn!

I'm fine, it the people saying I'm exploiting a child, making him miss out on seeing his friends, getting him to be responsible for my entire house and saying I'm somehow neglecting my cat that need the grips!

On what planet does spending 5 minutes putting food out for a cat mean he can't go out for the entire day or sleep over at his mates house?

One sachet of cat food a day, plus some dry food biscuits - no wonder cat scoffs it down in less than 3 minutes
He is starving !
I suppose cat supplements it's diet with mice etc, from the fields that he poos in...

What? That's exactly what my cats ate. The last of them died after 21 happy and healthy years of always available and unlimited dried food

A fiver a day. It’s a responsibility and your cat is worth it.

😂 they're supposed to be hungry at meal times,like we are. The cat isn't under.weight and has exactly the right amount of food.

It probably does supplement it's diet, but it's in their nature to hunt, so it probably better it eats the mouse than kills it for no reason.

So what if it poos in a field that it might catch it's food in? It's not eating the poo

People are mad on MN

Nobody is getting paid anything.

I hope that’s £20 a day, not for the whole week!

This.

You are.

Yes, I'm going to hand over £140 to a 14 year old. You got it right. Because the job is ever so hard and really is a huge task for him. He has to walk 10m, put some food down and walk the entire 10m back home. Of course he deserves to be paid one hundred and forty British pounds for that very involved task.

Don't worry. He'll actually end up with £0. Because the other neighbour will do it instead for free.

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Not sure what the point of your thread was, if you don’t want or need the original question answered!