Dog walker not walking dog

Mojisola

hollydays wrote: »

Not a case the cps would likely take on

Plenty of evidence to sack the dog walker and give a bad review on their 'service' - if this will be removed from the DG's page, then post it on the dog owner's FB page.

hollydays

Mojisola wrote: »

Plenty of evidence to sack the dog walker and give a bad review on their 'service' - if this will be removed from the DG's page, then post it on the dog owner's FB page.

Yes we all agree on that.

AJXX

Personally I'd sack the dog walker on the spot without notice or reason why.

I'd then draft out a carefully written letter and send it to the dog walker via recorded delivery, something like the below;

Dear Dog Walker,

It has recently come to our attention through inadvertently obtained evidence that you have not been providing the standard of service which we had been expecting from yourself; namely it has been proven that (on a number of occasions) you have either not walked our dog at all or taken him for a considerably shorter walk than agreed.

The above is the reason why on X date we terminated our services with yourself.

In light of this situation we have no choice but to ask for reimbursement of fees paid to you, we believe the sum of £X is a fair and reasonable amount given you have been employed for X months in total. We will be happy to consider some sort of re-payment plan of £x per month over x months if the total amount is too much for you to pay in one go.

We would invite you to send us your views on the situation and also if there was a justifiable reason for such behaviour on your part we will be happy to take this into consideration.

I look forward to your reply within 14 days of this letter, unfortunately failure to do so will result in me taking further action formally (small claims court) and/or publicly (Facebook) to alert your other customers of such deceitful behaviour.

As you are well aware our dog has x problems and we trusted you to provide a caring service in our absence; your behaviour has both shocked and saddened us.

Yours,
Unhappy dog owners.

unholyangel

hollydays wrote: »

To prove fraud you have to have deliberate deception As a few posters and myself have mentioned , at this point you probably haven't enough evidence because she's likely going to say it wasn't deliberate, she was ill etc and it was a short term thing.
That's why I suggested you get a private detective to gather the evidence, as that's about the only way shes going to prove it unless she does it herself.
Not sure about the legalities of posting the video online...
She could post a review on ripoff report as that can't be removed.
To my mind , if other people can catch her out, not just yourself, it would make your online review of her have much more impact. Don't use any words like fraud though that could be libellous and get the review removed.
Does she actually have a business name?

So she accidentally left the note saying the dog had had a good walk instead of either making alternative arrangements for someone else to walk the dog or making the owner aware they weren't going to be able to cover?

That note is all thats required to show intent.

hollydays

Yes that's true

paddyrg

How about cancelling immediately (lets face it, the walker is low-life and will not be wanting to repay the owed money) and posting letters around the area on lampposts, facebook, noticeboards, etc advising other dog owners to check their dog walker is actually doing hat they're paid for as yours (don't name them) has been lying and cheating the dog out of its exercise and you out of your money.

krlyr

Thanks all. Dog walker won't be being used again, I'll update when friend has decided which route to take - I have passed on all your ideas

arcon5

Call to tax office?
another idiotic comment.

Always made me laugh when idiots threatened me with that, I'd send them a link to hmrc website for reporting tax evasion.

Some people will say anything, no matter how stupid