As funny as it may sound, extended travel is a serious PITA when you have pets at home. Being able to leave your dog or cat with someone who has built a reputation as a good caretaker would be hugely preferable to taking them to a kennel.

It sounded so dumb at first, but after thinking about how my pet changes my travel schedule and has caused me to ask too many favors from friends. Someone please do this.

It'd be awesome to be able to leave my pet with other fellow pet owners. I'd be willing to take pets in my house as well to keep my cat company.

Someone is doing this. I think it was on here yesterday. http://www.rover.com

Shouldn't your kennel have a good reputation as a caretaker? Most large pet shops over here offer short/mid-term accomodations for animals.

True - HN reader, if you build this, my dogs and I would probably use it.

I realize it sounds funny, but AirBnB for pets could have a much larger impact on my life than Instagram ever could.