Sonya Petkovic

Cause it was just a hassle to find a cat sitter for her that I could trust.

So that coupled with the fact that once she passed, I knew I would be moving around the country and then going to grad school overseas.

So I couldn't commit to a new forever cat.

So I just wanted a way to be able to help cats, whether that was through cat sitting or fostering kittens or shelter cats.

And that's kind of how Meowtel came about.

I wanted to be able to create a service where it's easy for cat owners to be paired up with cat sitters and then be able to help shelters at the same time.

Correct.

So think of it as the Airbnb for cats.

If you're a cat owner, you can log on, search in your area for a cat sitter, and then you'll pay a service fee once you make a reservation, and it's a flat $2 per cat.

Now, if you're a sitter, Yantel does take a host commission fee of 12% is the base.

And then if you want to be kind of boosted up in the search results, you can give us a higher commission.

And that's up to your choosing.

So they don't list their cats.

It's more just a sitter-based search result.

Okay.

So they upload, yeah.

So in their user profile, they can list out all their cats, but really the cat doesn't come into play until they make a reservation.

Nope, absolutely free.

So the sitter can set their own rates, which is the great part.

So on average, I would say the daily rate is about $15 per