Wow I thought I was the only person being treated badly by this organization. I took on a dog sit for two dogs - they were Mastiff's and the younger one was 140 lbs. I had no issues with taking the dogs on as I have experience. I am also a professional that travels all over the world but need some animal time to decompress so I thought this would be a wonderful option. On my first day I crated the dogs and headed off to the supermarket to pick up supplies when I received a text message from the owner asking where I was - the neighbor was complaining about the dogs barking. I rushed back and it quickly became apparent that I could not leave the house for six weeks for more than an hour because the dogs would go ballistic. The one dog was not leash trained and would try to attack other dogs when we were out for walks. It was so stressful. He threw himself on to the fencing every time a person or dog walked past in the back yard and I had to be outside with them at all times when they were in a fenced in yard. The house was disgusting - dirty with animal hair and dust and to keep myself busy I scrubbed the entire place top to bottom. There were two small area rugs seeped in dog urine that I put outside. Long story short when the homeowner came home she complained about the rugs and accused me of theft of a phone adaptor. Like others I went to log in and got a message that my email was incorrect. And then I got a message from the site that the owner had filed a police report against me for $1000.00 worth of damage! I was stunned. Turns out she did not. In a text message the owner told me she did not file a report but just told the site that she did. On top of that I found out her real issue was that I slept in a separate bedroom and not with the dogs in her room! In the end I had a sit in Paris from Normado that overlapped this sit by two days and the owner would not help me find a replacement. I went to her vet and hired a vet assistant to the tune of 250 euro to stay with the dogs three days and two nights so I would not lose the pet sit or my sanity. I was in Paris for a month sitting a wonderful old kitty. I made friends with the owner, we gave each other glowing reports and everything was as it should be. This site put me in a dangerous situation, refused to listen when I tried to tell my side of the story and to add insult to injury banned me from the site!
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