I agree with this and when I’m looking at, cat sits, I specifically see where the pets are located in the pictures if they are on the countertops or food tables I pass
I don’t like to cook anything sitting cats like these, cats get onto worktops and dining table would keep pestering your ingredients, walk on the worktop while you cook and they’ll get onto the dining table while you eat and pester you
Hmmm.. I get the impression that THS’s latest marketing campaign (“Look! Free AirBnB!!”) has actually drawn in a lot of people who don’t give a rat’s about pets. I’ve seen a lot of input from wannabe sitters whose attitude is clearly not “I love animals and if you happen to be somewhere great too, that’s a bonus!” but “I wanna go to THIS place and at THIS time and stay for THIS long….. Oh, really? I gotta look after some cat? Yeah, s’pose so… Hey, I had a cat when I was a kid… So still, PICK ME!”
I think you have summed it up perfectly