A Rover sitter allowed Acoria and Ripley to flee in fright 5 months ago

PRAY FOR: Missing Golden Retrievers, Acoria 7 yo and Ripley 4 yo

Last Seen: Babcock rd near Camp Bullis rd San Antonio TX, 210-608-0867 Tricha or Dylan Sauce

Lord Jesus You know where these precious creatures are, we ask that You would reveal their whereabouts to mom Tricha. Wherever they are we ask that You would provide for their every need. Thank You that the community is trying very hard to locate these beautiful dogs; we ask that they would be instrumental in getting the word out and locating Acoria and Ripley. Mom Tricha and dad Dylan’s hearts are broken. Please minister healing to their hearts. Show them Your purposes in this tragedy. Speak to them through Your Words, the Bible. In the Name of Adonai Rohi, God our Shepherd. Amen. <3 Caren

My husband and I went away on vacation and left out precious babies with a Rover sitter. She called us up at 10pm 3 days into the vacation and said she lost our dogs. She said she was letting them out for a late night potty break, they got spooked and lunged. She looked until 3am and there were no signs of them. My husband and I caught a plane home 6am the next morning. We dropped our bags off at home and went straight to the site they were lost. We looked for weeks, all our free time everyday in 100 degree weather, and couldnt find them. We have passed our over 2k flyers, been on 4 TV news reports, 2 articles written on us, contacted over 1k vets, groomers, etc (2-4 week updates through email) had a sign holding event at busy intersections with 7 cars of people, posted 400 flyers/posters all over the city -they made us take them down and much much more believe it or not. We have had many people donate money to our go fund me and businesses pledging significant amounts as well. We have been so blessed from the support the community has given to us.

Psalm 27:1-14 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. …

Prayers for Pets
Are these your dogs? I’m praying for their return. I need to hear from you if I am to do to anything for them. ❤ Caren
Please pray for Acoria and Ripley to be returned home. They have been missing 5 months today. We miss them dearly Thank you. ❤️🙏Reward is now $7000
Tricha Sauce
Yes, thank you 🙏🏻 ❤️
Prayers for Pets
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I’ll also need a still shot of the girls. You have a lot of great video there, but a still shot is needed if I am to post them on the website.
Tricha Sauce
OK, I’m heading home and will do it as soon as I can. Thank you so very much
Prayers for Pets
OK luv, so sorry for your circumstances… ❤ Caren
Tricha Sauce
Yeah it’s been incredibly rough. […] It’s just been super chaotic
Prayers for Pets
Wow, what a shock that must have been.
Tricha Sauce
Yeah I don’t know what is going on. I meditate and pray every day but I’m not very religious but I’m going to try to write out something. Thank you so very much
Prayers for Pets
Don’t worry you don’t need to be “religious” to post a prayer request on prayersforpets. I am not “religious” either, I’m just a regular person Jesus died for and rose from the grave to give the gift of eternal life. I didn’t have to give him anything in return he gave it to me as a free gift and he wants that for you too. But you don’t have to have accepted that gift in order for us to pray for you and your family. 💗🙏 Caren
Tricha, they are such a wonderful creatures. So heartbreaking. I will try to use the video as well.

I wasn’t asking you to give me a prayer request in the form of a prayer that’s kind of what I do, but that’s fine🤗 Could you please recount the story of how they were with your pet sitter from Rover at another house and they got spooked and ran away while you were on vacation? I think that’s necessary to telling their story. Also please give me the cross streets where they were last seen; the name of the town and the contact person and information. I will add those into the post.

We had a precious golden retriever our Genny. She is no longer on this Earth but we look forward to seeing her in heaven one day. How old are your girls? 💗🙏 Caren
Sent by Caren Brodt
Tricha Sauce
They were lost on Babcock rd near Camp Bullis rd San Antonio TX, 210-608-0867 Tricha or Dylan Sauce. My husband and I went away on vacation and left out precious babies with a Rover sitter. She called us up at 10pm 3 days into the vacation and said she lost our dogs. She said she was letting them out for a late night potty break, they got spooked and lunged. She looked until 3am and there were no signs of them. My husband and I caught a plane home 6am the next morning. We dropped our bags off at home and went straight to the site they were lost. We looked for weeks, all our free time everyday in 100 degree weather, and couldnt find them. We have passed our over 2k flyers, been on 4 TV news reports, 2 articles written on us, contacted over 1k vets, groomers, etc (2-4 week updates through email) had a sign holding event at busy intersections with 7 cars of people, posted 400 flyers/posters all over the city -they made us take them down and much much more believe it or not. We have had many people donate money to our go fund me and businesses pledging significant amounts as well. We have been so blessed from the support the community has given to us. We’re actually doing a black Friday event where wpople are passing out flyers while people are waiting in line.Obviously just take what you want out of that lol
Tricha Sauce
Now, here is the whole story:
On 6/18/19 Tuesday at 10pm our Rover sitter lost our 2 golden retrievers while letting them out for a late night potty. Because my husband and I were on vacation, they were staying at her apartment complex called Marquis at Crown Ridge 18385 Babcock Rd, San Antonio, TX and they reportedly ran towards the corner of Babcock and Camp Bullis rd.
The sitters lived in a gated apartment complex with a gated dog park behind her building. Instead of using that lit green space, she brought our dogs outside the fence onto a pitch dark lawn near the road and woods, carrying both extend leashes in one hand after fireworks were set off by six flags just an hour earlier. She was informed Ripley was scared on the dark on paper and I believe verbally as well but we have no proof of the verbal. She said she looked until 3am. Later in her rebuttal to our review on her Rover profile, she said she wasn’t informed and deflected her negligence onto our dogs/lac of info. We are not allowed to respond to it.
My husband and I caught the next plane home. We saw the sitter once but never seen her face again. Most of, if not all the conversations were initiated by us. There was little communication from her and it seemed forced. We had a news interview and I (Tricha S) called her out on her lac of participation and she became abrasive, acted victimized, accusatory and added to our stress rather than helping us. After that, she was almost impossible to talk to in a constructive manner because she was so uncooperative. Please note, we asked for a picture of the dogs the day before they were lost and she did not give us any.
Rover printed flyers for us, made a few robot phone calls, called nearby sitters to help look (not one shown up), offered a $100 reward and said they looked online. At week 3, they stopped what little help they offered per policy. We have requested additional search services but they refused. They told us they may reimburse us for some vet bills or will offer us the worth of the dogs if they are found dead. So since week 3 we have been on our own.
There was a sighting of 2 golden retrievers running around a baseball field alone very close to where she lives earlier the day she claims she lost them by a gentleman that confirmed his story twice with us and once with a supporter of ours. Our PI said he thinks we should take that particular tip seriously. If it is true, that means she lost them much earlier than she says she did and was attempting to cover it up.
Rover never shut down her profile (that we can tell) and just days later she was meeting new clients. We asked rover if they would tell us about her background check or if she had prior incidences and they would not. I felt it was very relevant to know if she did.
This is my understanding, but I could be wrong, Rover is a bait and switch company. Basically, they make these commercials of assurance, trust and responsibility and take credit for that. IMO, almost like an insurance or liable company but the moment anything goes wrong however, all legality is placed on the sitter even though they take 20% of their fees.
We have been told that we cant sue Rover but only the sitter for a maximum of 5k. With lawyer /legal costs and the long drawn out process of suing someone that might not even have the money/you might not even win, its better to take the “dead dog money”. The thing is, again, as far as I know(could be wrong) they have you sign a non disclosure agreement at that time so you are unable to tell anyone about it. To me, this is super shady stuff and it makes me wonder how many other people have gone through this with Rover?
We have a community behind us in which has got the attention of other rover clients that have called up sobbing because they did this to them too. Its absolutely horrific and something needs to be done.
Tricha Sauce
https://www.facebook.com/BringAcoriaandRipleyhome/
2 Female Golden Retrievers missing in San Antonio Acoria and Ripley
Community
Babcock Rd, San Antonio, Texas 78255
Prayers for Pets
Thank you Tricha. You never told me their age. I assume they are siblings? I will do my best to tell and promote your story. Sometimes there’s no recourse. It’s unfortunate and seems unfair. It probably does you no good to dwell on Rover’s guilt or innocence. It will only agitate you and make you miserable. Sometimes bad things just happen, sadly. I’ll be praying for you to be able to let it go. Mostly though I will be praying for your precious girls to be found.

Ecclesiastes 8: 6 For there is a time and a way for everything, although man’s trouble lies heavy on him. 7 For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?
💗🙏 Caren
Sent by Caren Brodt
Tricha Sauce
Sorry, Acoria is 7 yo and Ripley is 4 yo, not siblings. ❤️ Thank you so much
Prayers for Pets
Oh, OK. Good to know. Thank you. Are they chipped?
Tricha Sauce
Yes both are chipped and spayed.
So thankful we did that
Prayers for Pets
Yes, good. Hopefully this will bring them back to you. 🤗🤗🤗
Tricha Sauce
Again thank you so much that’s so sweet of you ❤️🙏🏻