Dog owner furious after discovering how long Rover pet sitter REALLY spent with her beloved pooch - and her cringe lies when she was caught out

A pet proprietor has shared her dismay complete a canine sitter who lied astir sleeping astatine her location aft being hired to enactment successful her location and look aft her pooch.

Ellen Tift, 54, who describes herself arsenic a musician and author, claims she hired nan sitter to enactment astatine her location and attraction for her canine while she was retired of town.

Tift said her dog, named Happy, is simply a rescue that suffers from some trauma and separation anxiety, needed personification to beryllium astir him constantly. 

To guarantee nan champion care, Tift turned to canine sitting website, Rover, hoping that nan 'vetted and rated sitters' connected connection would beryllium reliable, dissimilar a erstwhile bad acquisition she'd had pinch nan friend of a friend.

A woman who seemed saccharine and promising was hired and reassured Tift that she would emotion her canine and return bully attraction of him, nan animal person said. 

In nan beginning, Tift says nan woman mentioned nan canine wasn't eating much, which was worrying, but she tried to stay optimistic. 

Tift says she went retired of her measurement to make nan sitter comfortable, offering her a bully impermanent furniture and entree to her creation supplies.

However, Tift soon noticed nan sitter seemingly staying distant from nan home, while still claiming to beryllium there. 

'She stayed successful my location and she had mislaid her full-time occupation and she said I’m gonna beryllium capable to walk truthful overmuch much clip pinch your canine now I conscionable person a emotion and I checked my information cameras connected my structure to spot erstwhile her car was successful my driveway and I realized that she didn’t moreover enactment astatine my house. Like we’re paying for her to slumber successful our location pinch our dog,' Tift said successful her TikTok.

Upon examining footage changeable by her information cameras, Tift noticed really nan sitter’s car wasn’t astatine her location overnight, and really she only seemed to sojourn concisely during nan day. 

She would get astatine 7:30 successful nan morning, leaving soon afterwards and return astir 2:30 successful nan day for a speedy six-minute locomotion pinch nan dog, earlier past disappearing erstwhile again until nan adjacent morning.

Concerned, Tift texted her, asking if nan canine was waking her up during nan night. 

The canine sitter pretended everything was fine, but erstwhile Tift confronted her astir her absence.

'I’m noticing connected my information camera that your car was retired of my driveway each nighttime long. It looks for illustration you were only location for 8 minutes,' Tift said to nan sitter. 

'Help maine understand what’s going connected present we had agreed that you would enactment overnight and my canine needs group to beryllium astir him,' she told her. 

The sitter claimed her Bible Studies group overran and past admitted to falling dormant connected her sofa astatine her ain flat and apologized for not communicating better. 

Tift was not satisfied pinch her mentation and felt she had abandoned her dog.

The sitter said that it was 'out of characteristic for her' to not support an agreement. 

'I’m for illustration that's textbook for "this is wholly my character"', Tift said connected her video. 'Yeah, right, apologizing "I should’ve communicated better", nary you shouldn’t person abandoned my dog! I don’t spot her!' she went on.

Tift past group nan sitter immoderate basal tasks and asked her to nonstop a photograph of her canine pinch a circumstantial artifact to beryllium that she was there, and to stock her location while she was away. 

The sitter complied, but Tift felt her promises to regain her spot were insincere. 

'I downloaded nan photos and I looked astatine nan timestamp and it didn’t lineup pinch erstwhile she was sending it to me,' Tift explained. 

'I said "I would for illustration for you to move connected your location sharing pinch maine until I’m backmost successful town", truthful she did those things but she’s laying each this articulator connected me.'

Tift spent an hr connected nan telephone pinch nan canine sitting website’s customer service, seeking a replacement for nan last 2 days of her vacation. 

In nan video, Tift appears upset arsenic she shares her worries astir her canine being connected his ain for truthful long.

She claimed her pooch looked distressed successful nan photos nan sitter had sent. 

'I was truthful huffy I was shaking my canine and he’s for illustration a rescue and he has separation worry and trauma and I emotion my dog,' Tift said.

She went connected to opportunity that her picnic was marred by nan ordeal, leaving her emotion betrayed and anxious for her dog’s well-being. 

Following nan extremity of her vacation, Tift contacted Rover's customer work erstwhile again and demanded nan canine sitter beryllium removed from their site.

After a back-and-forth complete a play of days, nan sitter was yet removed but Tift has vowed to ne'er usage Rover ever again.

Rover released a connection to DailyMail.com astir nan incident. 

'We are profoundly sorry that nan attraction provided by a sitter connected our level grounded to meet this pet parent’s expectations.

'Our 24/7 Trust and Safety Team worked pinch Happy’s family to quickly find a different sitter to supply care, and we understand Happy was good cared for complete nan remainder of nan pet parent’s trip.'