Tara B.
My pup ate something on the walk and ended up in the hospital
I have been using wag for a couple weeks now, with two different walkers. Up until now I have been pleased with the services and all around ease of scheduling, etc. Which is why I have given it 3 stars. But this past Thursday, I came home from work to find my dog had vomited all over the floor, which had clearly been due to eating human food outside during his walk earlier in the day, because the vomit was filled with human food chunks. He spent the rest of the evening having diarrhea and vomiting, and Friday seemed to be doing much better after withholding regular food and limiting water intake. But come Saturday, he was still having diarrhea, would barely even eat rice and chicken, and in the middle of the night threw up three times. I ended up taking him to the vet hospital today after finding blood in his diarrhea. Turns out he did in fact get very sick after eating whatever he ate off the ground during his walk, and now is on a series of antibiotics and other medications to get him feeling better. He also received a shot to help with the nausea. Of course, paying an unexpected $310 dollars out of pocked today was not very pleasing. But more importantly, my baby could have been worse. Either my walker was not paying enough attention to my dog to notice that he ate something (and a lot of it), or the walker did notice and just did not tell me. I am very upset by this. I will keep using Wag but ONLY because there is another walker that I have used who has been doing a great job with my pup, and who I have actually met. The other walker, I had not met. I am extremely bothered by this and feel that it needs to be addressed in some capacity.