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SAN FRANCISCO -- Several California canine owners are successful shock, aggravated and, successful immoderate cases, grieving.
They're trying to marque consciousness of a lawsuit that started with the hiring of a canine sitter from 1 of the astir trusted work apps, Rover. One of its approved dog-sitters is present sitting astatine the halfway of a constabulary probe successful the Bay Area.
Felipe Morales-Torres is sounding the alarm astir a canine sitter successful the Lake Merced neighborhood, 1 helium recovered connected the fashionable work app.
"He was covered successful urine, oregon vomit, oregon both, truthful it was truly conscionable terrifying. We're each the mode implicit successful Ohio," Morales-Torres said.
His dog, Brady, was taken to the vet aft being picked up connected Christmas Day.
Morales-Torres filed a constabulary report. He aboriginal came crossed a Reddit thread and video discovering 2 different dogs had died nether the aforesaid care.
"This is simply a favored owner's worst nightmare travel true," said San Francisco nonmigratory Ti Tran.
Tran and Amy Dinh near their dog, Aku, with the canine sitter connected Dec. 19. While they didn't get a batch of communication, it wasn't excessively suspicious.
But 2 days earlier Christmas, they got worrisome news.
"We got a telephone connected the nighttime of the 23rd, close earlier Christmas Eve from the vet. They asked if we were the proprietor of Aku and said helium wasn't responding and his reflexes weren't intact," Tran said.
The canine sitter had taken Aku to a vet session successful the Fillmore District.
"He was conscionable suffering truthful bad," Tran said.
"And helium wasn't showing betterment successful their care, and they were trying truthful hard," Dinh said.
Aku died from complications related to dehydration.
Scott Hallman's dog, Zeb, besides died. The origin is inactive unknown.
"As our formation was taking off, we got a connection connected Rover saying our canine had bloody stool and had fainted," Hallman said.
Hallman and his hubby near Zeb with the aforesaid canine sitter connected Dec. 17. Almost a week later, Zeb had died.
"We were successful the aerial flying and my bosom conscionable sank, and I cried the remainder of the flight," Hallman said. "Our canine was 4 and a half. I've had him since helium was 5 weeks old, and helium was portion of the family.
As for the canine sitter, Hallman says determination weren't immoderate informing signs connected his Rover profile.
"You would deliberation he's a azygous feline who works from home, who loves dogs and dogs emotion him, and he's been doing this for a while, truthful determination were truly nary reddish flags," Hallman said.
In a statement, Rover said: "We are heartbroken by this incidental and condemn the reported mistreatment of these pets."
The institution added that it had conducted its ain probe and permanently deactivated the canine sitter's account, on with different associated with it, and it is moving with section instrumentality enforcement.
Meanwhile, constabulary said this is an unfastened probe and nary arrests person been made.
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