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My partner and I are the proud dog parents of two golden retrievers and a Pomeranian. We recently relocated to Seattle from the West Coast and were in need of a dog walker while we were living in our temporary corporate apartment waiting to purchase our new house. After meeting Dominika for the first time, I was sure we were going to have a great relationship with her and we did... for about a month. The first incident happened when she locked our dogs in the bathroom, under our instruction, for the cleaners to clean our apartment. What we did not tell her to do was to lock three dogs in a 5x5 bathroom without filling up their water and then proceed to turn a heater on full blast in the bathroom for four hours until I returned home and was able to rescue them. Just imagine these sweet dogs were trapped in what was basically an oven with no way to help themselves. I even sent her specific instructions warning her that the middle switch was a fan and third switch was a heater and to make sure she didn’t accidentally flip it on, but she did. After I confronted her, she was apologetic and seemed to be truly remorseful so we decided to give her another chance, something I wish we had never done. I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt and to give second chances but this situation is a reason why you should be careful doing that. The next morning, she had the nerve to actually ask us to pay her for the previous day. This woman asked us to pay her for abusing and neglecting our dogs. We, trying to be good people, did pay her. A couple weeks pass by and everything is back to being wonderful with Dominika until she decided to take our dogs to a lake. First off, she never told us that she was taking the dogs to the lake. Secondly, she never asked if it was okay for our dogs to go to the lake and get in the water. In fact, we had explicitly told her on her initial visit not to let the dogs get in the lake if she wasn’t going to give them a bath afterwards. She then dropped the dogs off at our apartment soaking wet and dirty with lake water. She didn’t even brush them out. Anyone with a long haired dog knows you have to brush them out when they get wet so their hair doesn’t get matted and tangled. Additionally, one of our dogs GPS trackers was missing so I texted her the next morning asking her if she had seen the tracker, since we spent over $100 on it, and she promised to look for it. She reported back she was unable to find it. She then admitted she should have taken the dogs collars off prior to swimming because she knew we kept GPS trackers on them but she refused to pay to replace the tracker she had lost. She then made some lame comment about how she spends $50 in gas to keep their truck cool enough for the dogs, as if that had any relevance. We basically paid this woman to $800/month to abuse our dogs and to lose our stuff.

I have kept text messages and screenshots of every incident including her admitting she locked our dogs in a bathroom and then proceeded to turn the heater on and text messages of her admitting she should have taken the dogs GPS tracker off but refusing to pay. If you would like these screenshots, email at lorenavgray@gmail.com. We need to keep our dogs safe and well cared for! People as irresponsible as this should not be allowed to keep dogs in their care. She fooled us big time and cost us so much unnecessary money; I am just trying to make sure this doesn’t happen to someone else!