Today, after finally giving up on the search for my lost dog, I realized that my neighbors had found her and are convinced that she was a stray. They won't give her up and are now mad at me for trying to take my own dog back. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my dog ran away. Luckily my neighbors caught him before he got too far. Now they won't give him back because they think I did something to him to make him want to run away. FML
Today, my boyfriend finally let me take his dog on a walk, after two years of not trusting me to keep her safe. During the walk, a car drove by, causing her to run after it and pulling the leash out of my hand. Five hours later, and I still can't find her. FML
Today, I searched our neighborhood for our lost dog. After screaming at the top of our lungs, driving around in circles, and asking strangers, we realized we took him to the groomers this morning. FML
Today, I got caught trying to steal my own cat back from my neighbor. FML
Today, I adopted a stray cat that kept showing up at my door. Turns out, it belongs to my neighbours. It wasn’t lost; it just doesn’t like living with them. Now, they want it back. FML
Today, I got home from work and found my dog missing. When I asked my neighbor if she saw what happened, I saw my dog sleeping on her couch. She tried to say it was hers. FML
Today, I lost my dog and so I put up 'lost' signs. As I was coming back home I noticed one had been written on. It said: "Found your dog. Keeping it". FML
Today, I went to check if my neighbours were home to return their dog, having looked after her for a few days. I looked in the window and the place was empty. They'd moved house and stuck us with their dog. FML
Today, my neighbor's 4-year-old daughter came up to me and asked if she could have my dog. When I said no, she started crying so much that her mom came out 5 minutes later and demanded that I give her daughter the dog. FML
Today, I found the dog I lost while I was dog sitting. It was with its new adoptive family. FML
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mewzik 0
Ouch, that sucks I would definitely get others involved to get your dog back But how did your neighbors not even know that it was your dog?
ForestFire0 1
That's why you have those chips implanted. To fight back against scumbags like these. What a pair of grade-A assholes.
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_anonymoose_ 0
loser neighbors
mustlovemarvin 0
Say you'll file a lawsuit and you have veternary records or other documents to prove that it's your dog. Technically if they don't give it back you can argue they stole it, my advice is to promise them it will turn into a legality issue.
mattiscool 0
YDI if your gonna take it.
Yellow_Pancreas 0
Do you have pictures or videos, and/or vet records and certificates? Show them. If they don't listen and insist on keeping the dog, SUE THEM. If they're your neighbors how did they "not" know you had a dog? (I don't even know my neighbors, but I sure as hell know their pets.) Good luck, and I really hope you get your dog back! (Also if/when you do get your dog back, have her wear her collar with license/home info at ALL times)
mishycakes 0
steal him back!!!
sjfml 0
What ******* morons... my state requires you register dogs, if yours does too, I'd suggest going to City/Town Hall and getting a copy of the registration to show them!
Goobian 3
To everybody saying you should have a picture of yourself with the dog available I went through that (not with a dog but with things someone stole from me) I told the police I have pictures of the things on my blog and me talking about buying them from a year earlier and he said I can take a picture of anything and say it's mine but that doesn't mean it's mine. So yeah that doesn't work legally. I hope the person that wrote this has their dog back and has installed a vchip in the dog. Remember what happened to Ellen? The agency she got her dog from had a vchip installed in the dog she got from them and it said their name on it still so they took the dog back. That is necessary nowadays to make sure the dog has a vchip and it has your name on it.
rt523 0
wow. your neighbors must be psyco. take the dog back and move far, far away.
snowboarder3195 0
wow what retarded neighbors. just do your best to get the dog back, and if that doesnt work, STEAL IT! its your dog, and if those neighbors are dumb enough to think that, they will be dumb enough to think that it ran away again
venomlash 9
Something similar happened to my parents when I was 2. They were leaving California for Illinois, and they had left our two cats with someone, leaving specific instructions on what kinds of food they would eat (what brands of kibbles, etc.). My mom had second thoughts, but the college student she had left them to would not give them up. My mom and a friend had to burglarize and catnap! (so to speak). Bonus: the college student didn't seem to have paid any attention to what food the cats would eat.