WAG’S TAIL OF HORROR

‘Dogs eat dog’ fear

A Manhattan woman booked a sitter for her pooch through the infamous “Uber for dogs” app Wag, only to learn the pup had gone missing in New Jersey — and may have ended up as dinner for pit bulls. The owner used the app to find someone to watch her 4-year-old rescue Chihuahua, Sweets, from June 13-20, but a few days in, she was told the dog (inset) had vanished from the minder’s home in North Bergen, NJ. One man involved in the search claims the sitter’s story about what happened kept changing — but says the dogwalker brought up one seriously disturbing possibility. “She told the owner there are dog-fighting rings in the area. They use Chihuahuas as bait for the pitties,” said Michael Ripinsky, the Jersey shelter owner who helped find Sweets a home. Now he’s aiding in the search for her. Ultimately, the sitter said the dog had slipped out of her yard and wasn’t wearing a collar at the time because it had come loose and the sitter had removed it.

Wag spokeswoman Dini von Mueffling said Sweets’ sitter no longer works for the company.

Ripinsky says it wasn’t in the Chihuahua’s nature to run off, and worries she really has been caught up in the underground dog-fighting scene. Wag dismissed that notion. “With regard to the question of ‘Chihuahua death rings’: We have no knowledge of this. At no time in our conversation with local law enforcement, animal control or local shelters has this topic come up,” von Mueffling said.

Wag says it has mounted a massive doghunt for Sweets and is offering a $2,000 reward.

Sweets is at least the eighth Big Apple pup to give a Wag walker the slip since 2015.

Last month, 3-year-old German shepherd-basset hound mix Teddy was lost a walker in Harlem — but was fortunately found the next day.

Others haven’t been so lucky.

Upper East Side Chihuahua Norman slipped his harness during a March walk and hasn’t been seen since.

Sweets’ owner declined to comment. The sitter couldn’t be reached.