Thank you. Just added “shabby chic” to my tinder profile. 
I just posted a review recently on a one night sit where my very dog experienced little dog accompanied me, with permission. I docked a star for pet behavior and explained it in my review.
The sit was in my home town and I thought it would be fun because it was right at the beach. We had the two dogs meet a couple of weeks ahead of time and all went well. My dog is small, energetic and friendly. The other dog was medium sized.
In reading through the reviews, someone mentioned “resource guarding” issues” so when we arrived at the site and I saw the other dog’s food bowl on the floor in the corner, I asked the owner about it. She made light of it but did move the bowl to the counter at my request.
I noticed that my dog wasn’t totally comfortable with the other dog but trust her to back away when that happens. The owner wasn’t even gone 20 min when her dog attacked mine and nipped her to the point of bleeding, in 3 places.
She responded to “leave it” and didn’t re-direct on me. I cleaned up my dog’s wounds and called the owner telling her I was taking my dog to a friend’s house but would continue the sit.
Like the author of this post pointed out, this homeowner leaves town frequently for overnight sits. She has always allowed people to bring their own dogs but honestly, I think her dog is not happy with always getting used to new people and pets.
My review gave her the benefit of the doubt that maybe her dog does best with a calm medium or large sized dog (mine is small, energetic and nosy), but I shared that my dog got bitten and docked the review on pet behavior.
It wasn’t the dog’s fault—I could see that even after my dog left, she was uncomfortable. I think she was just “done” with the revolving door. My dog was ok after a couple of days and doesn’t appear to have residual psychological damage, thankfully.
I re-read past reviews and noticed some had hinted at things but no one else had spoken as directly as I did. We don’t do each other any favors if we aren’t up front; especially about pet behavior.
Docking a star for a dog that draws blood is generous.
Technically, given what happened, that HO should not be allowed on THS with an aggressive dog that will attack other dogs. Especially concerning given that other sitters appeared to have hinted about such behavior.
I agree with @JanetPlanet, you were generous with your review.
The more I think about it, after writing this post, you are correct. The owner said that she would amend her post to say that it wasn’t appropriate for smaller, energetic dogs, but I just checked her profile and she has already had another sitter but did not change her listing. If I read my review, there’s no way I would take my dog there.
@ShulasMom you’ve gotta feel sorry for pets who are treated like this. Honestly if you have to travel that much maybe consider it’s not in your pets best interest. (Directed at the host, not you) When our last pets died we made the decision not to have anymore as we knew we were in our travelling phase. She’s lucky the dog is not finding himself a new owner.
Even if the sitter does not bring their own dog to this sit , they are still responsible for this dog while walking it. If it attacked another dog and caused an injury, the sitter could potentially be held responsible and face legal action, including a fine. The law can apply to the person in charge of the dog at the time, not just the owner.
If you want THS to look into this, you would need to raise a Member Dispute. THS does not monitor reviews or respond to issues raised on the forum, so a Member Dispute is the appropriate way to bring this to their attention.
THS’s Terms & Conditions are quite clear about pets with a history of aggression.
Section 5.2.4 states that Pet Parents must:
“ensure that no pets to be left under the care of a Sitter have ever caused a person or animal any physical harm (no matter how minor the injury).”
Section 5.2.11 also states that Pet Parents must:
“not have any inherently dangerous pets … or any animal with a history of attacks on pets or people.”
THS also states that animals with a history of attacks on pets or people are not accepted on the platform.
I always feel a bit of peer pressure when I write a review, especially if previous people didn’t mention any issues. But I’ve learned that you can hint to things or sometimes just the fact that you mention them in a review is a sign - a little like how you read house advertisements: you know that if someone uses the word “cozy”, it could be shorthand for “cramped”.
Mosspiglet:
I don’t think that that’s a good idea. I’m pretty good at picking up the secret code clues from previous sitters, but I missed it on this one. I used to leave those hints. We’ve done almost 30 sits now, and I’m done enabling irresponsible hosts to take advantage of inexperienced sitters.
When we leave those coded reviews inexperienced sitters won’t pick up on them, take the sit, experience the bad sit, and then feel peer pressured by all of those previous five star reviews to leave their own five star review. It just serves to keep the circle of deception going.
Trusted does not just refer to the trust between hosts and sitters, it should also be the trust that sitters can have in each other.
Let’s all help each other out.
A sit I would consider in the future has some interesting reviews. Some glowing 5 star. One 1 star, I think a couple no reviews. Hmmmm. Clearly there are some issues on this sit that don’t work for some sitters. Would it work for me? 
Dunno, I will keep watching that one I think. It’s very hard to be sure though if people are not honest when reviewing.