My friend was in a panic a couple of months ago: her DD wanted her to look after her cat for 2 weeks over Christmas but discovered there would be problems with the cat versus her other animals. A cattery was out of the question for the PFB (cat).
I do not have any pets but agreed to board the animal myself. She asked using the words "Please, please can you have the cat to stay, DD will pay you."
I wasn't really bothered about payment until I realised that I wouldn't be able to do several things over Christmas that I'd planned on account of having this pet. I figured a bit of inconvenience money might be in order especially since I discovered the DD is earning around £100K per year
But my suggestion of a fee of one-third of average cattery fees (£3.33 per day as all food and litter will be provided by the owner) seems to have gone down like a lead balloon - friend probably did not tell DD that she said I'd be paid! I am not being unreasonable am I?