Last year I got my first dog, and it’s one of the best things that has ever happened to me. My mutt Gordo is the only pure thing in my life, but he also introduced a bunch of new chores to my life.

The most obvious of these is that a few times a day I need to take him outside, because that’s where he poops and pees. Before I moved closer to VICE’s office, my commute was more than an hour long each way, meaning I had to pay someone to walk Gordo in the middle of the day while I was gone. I never had a dog before, and I wasn’t sure how to get a dog walker, so looked to the internet for guidance. What I found was Wag, a kind of gig-economy-reliant app for booking dog walkers.

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