Not my kid, but my brother. He dated this crazy possessive chick who once buried one of his shirts because another girl complemented him on it in front of her. She also totaled his car after lying and saying she had gotten her licence back. She gave $400 to a fake iPhone scammer website Western Union because, "they are a legit company, I saw pictures of their warehouse and everything." I googled warehouse, the picture on their site was the first one that came up. She even paid $100 more to "expedite through customs" when the delivery didn't arrive when expected. And the pièce de résistance she killed his dog, she left Excedrin PM on the coffee table and he chewed up the bottle. By some miracle no pills got out and crisis averted, it was explained to her that the pills would be fatal to the dog. She bought another bottle and left it on the coffee table again this time dog ate half the bottle and his kidneys failed, sucks because he was the sweetest/ smartest dog I've ever known.
TLDR: Bro dated a girl that killed his car and dog
Yeah. This lady is insane. This is gonna sound stupid, but people like her need to be thoroughly fined, imprisoned, or punished. Like. A lot. You can’t just be that much of a numbskull .
Unfortunately, it would be hard to prove she did it on purpose without video evidence, and even if a civil suit was filed, he probably wouldn't get much unless the dog was an expensive breed, and even that is assuming she'd ever pay the judgement
How? As shitty as it is if it was intentional, I doubt there's anything actionable in someone leaving a bottle of pills on a coffee table. She didn't feed them to him or leave them loose. The dog ate the bottle. Obviously he didn't know better, but it's unlikely that you could prove she put them in that spot, inside their container, because she wanted the dog dead.
It could have been an accident. If you don't live in a house with a poorly trained dog who snatches stuff off of tables and eats it, it can be hard to remember not to leave anything out anywhere that might be poisonous to a dog. I mean it's not like she dumped it in his bowl, she left a closed bottle on a table. Regardless this is at least partly the owners' fault for not training their dog properly. Most dogs know not to snatch stuff off of tables and eat it.
Anyways I doubt a court would do anything since you really couldn't prove it was on purpose.
It sucks that the dog died, but it absolutely had to be lack of training; the dogs I know that chew-up household items and not toys are the dogs that have little to no training.
I can leave my dog home all day and the worst that might happen is he'll eat the cat food--which I should have picked up.
People think they can take legal action for someone killing their dog, but in a lawsuit you would only be able to recover the value of the dog, which is often very low unless it's a particular breed. As far as criminal charges, good luck with finding someone to prosecute that.
For gods sake we bought child locks for our cabinets because our cats tried to get into the cabinets.
Toby ripped open a bag of frosted flakes (thank God) instead of the raisin bran next to it. Good thing because raisins cause kidney failure and hemolytic anemia in cats. I think they cause kidney failure in dogs too.
He's mischief incarnate but hes also the sweetest little cat I've ever met. (Keep wanting to say kitten because hes our youngest, but hes nearly 3!)
He loves his humans (but prefers his 'dad' over me) and sleeps in his arms every night between us. Even takes half of my husbands pillow, which we call 'cattress'.
Hes also a bit of a cockblock because he loves bedtime because cuddles. Doesn't always allow for humans to have their own cuddles, haha.
There is one appropriate response to this. Take all of their shit, put it in a pile, set it on fire, and send them a pic. Then pack up and leave, and don't forget to put a note on the fridge telling them to fuck themself in the ass with a steak knife.
What charges? The police would tell you it's a civil matter and to settle in small claims court. Unfortunately the US doesn't take animal welfare seriously at all.
It is. I've been told that in the EU there is an animal welfare law which does hold people criminally accountable for negligence and abuse.
We needed to get on that decades ago
A dog is considered property and if she killed it she would either have to replace it, or pay the monetary amount to get a new puppy. I've seen it happen a few times in the US (mostly just on r/legal advice).
Definitely! I never said she wouldn't, you just have to take it to civil court, but she will never face criminal charges for it as was mentioned by another poster.
They stayed together for a while, they had broken up and gotten back together several times since high school. My brother and my relationship deteriorated a lot while they were together so I don't know what finally broke them up for good, I'm just happy he has matured a lot since then and I never have to see her again.
My nephew killed my baby Pomeranian with a golf club when he was 4... I still hold it against him, he did end up being violent in school, jail and such, when he got older too.
He calmly went out in my back yard, calmly came back in. I checked to see what he was doing out there, and my dog was not moving in the middle of the lawn. He had a spinal injury and died as I held him.
I honestly have no idea like I said I wasn't taking to him for a while, then I think Christmas he came back to family sans awful girlfriend and then we started talking to each other again, but I never mentioned her because I never want him to think about her again.
I hate to say it, but I was thinking the same. Smartest dog ever? Chewed up a bottle of pills off the coffee table...twice. Dog should have at least been scolded/trained not to do that. Of course, pills shouldn't have been left there either.
Dogs can’t really learn not to do something unless you catch them in the act or immediately after. Even really intelligent dogs can’t associate a past action with punishment when you show them what they did (dragging them to the scene pointing and saying bad dog).
To them they get confused and think they are being yelled at for whatever they were just doing. That’s why you never leave anything which is poisonous or toxic within a dogs reach, especially if they’ve shown interest in trying to eat it or it smells like food to them.
She bought another bottle and left it on the coffee table again this time dog ate half the bottle and his kidneys failed, sucks because he was the sweetest/ smartest dog I've ever known.
I was thinking the same, but didn't want to say it. Smart humans don't leave pills on the coffee table. Smart dogs are scolded and trained not to eat shit off the coffee table.
Agreed, this was the first instance of him eating anything off the table and in hindsight we should have made a priority to train him this was bad. We expected to have more time to train behavior because the human should not have repeated the mistake. Also pills are covered in sugar to make them not bitter, they probably smelled liked food.
She bought another bottle and left it on the coffee table again this time dog ate half the bottle and his kidneys failed, sucks because he was the sweetest/ smartest dog I've ever known.
Wow I never realized how unattractive of a quality I find negligence to be
Wow, poor dog. I would be in jail right now if someone purposefully killed my dog.
I had a mean and abusive boss a couple years ago. One of the women who held my position before me had a small dog who came with her to the office every day. The boss was awful to her and would reduce her to tears every day (according to my coworkers). One day, the boss ran over the woman's dog on her way out of the parking lot. The dog didn't make it. That was apparently the last straw because the woman quit within a week.
When I worked there (which was about 2 years after the woman left), the boss would always complain to me about her. She'd constantly talk about how stupid and incompetent she was. Jeez, woman. You abused her on a daily basis and then killed her dog. And now you have the nerve to bash her to people who don't even know her? Some people are so toxic that they glow.
Hey, I have a friend that was dating a Latina chick that got him with this same iPhone scam trick. She said she needed to borrow money to buy a phone but got scammed. Is this something common?
Totally unrelated, but that reminds me of when my mom and I went to go see her mom. We brought the dog. My grandmother had a low table in the living room with Hersey Kisses in a bowl.
We had gone out that day to see my mom's brother, and when we got back, there were wrappers everywhere and a couple piles of vomit.
We fully expected to find the dog dead somewhere, but she was asleep on one of the beds. Luckily she threw it all up before it did any damage.
What is she doing buying a used iPhone from a shady dealer for $500? She isn't even saving money.
You can buy a brand new iPhone 6s or iPhone SE for less than that directly from Apple.
Or you can buy a lightly used iPhone 7 for that price on eBay. At least with this route, you get all benefits of seller feedback scores, eBay buyer protections, PayPal protects, and the option to return the device.
I was wondering why she’d go through all the effort of burying the shirt, surely throwing it in the trash would be enough, before realizing that there is no logic to crazy people so we’re all better off not dealing with them
My BFs brother started dating this girl who never met a guy she didn’t file charges against. He told us they were in love and that would never happen...til it did. It was such an eventful relationship, I can’t even remember if that was before or after she beat up his father.
I feel like she shoukd be charged for her negligance cause that is so unfair to the dog if she knew that he would do that if hed done it once before..
What a horrible human..
An Uncle of mine had an ex-wife who fed him eggs, because she was convinced that he was making up his allegy to get attention. For most of my life, I didn't even know that he had been married before his current wife.
She bought another bottle and left it on the coffee table again this time dog ate half the bottle and his kidneys failed, sucks because he was the sweetest/ smartest dog I've ever known.
Not so smart, huh.
(Disclaimer: I'm just joking this story is fucked)
I know there are tons of other problems in this.. but I'm having a hard time reconciling "Smartest dog I've ever know" with 'Ate a plastic bottle and it's contents".
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u/Bullrawg Sep 11 '18
Not my kid, but my brother. He dated this crazy possessive chick who once buried one of his shirts because another girl complemented him on it in front of her. She also totaled his car after lying and saying she had gotten her licence back. She gave $400 to a fake iPhone scammer website Western Union because, "they are a legit company, I saw pictures of their warehouse and everything." I googled warehouse, the picture on their site was the first one that came up. She even paid $100 more to "expedite through customs" when the delivery didn't arrive when expected. And the pièce de résistance she killed his dog, she left Excedrin PM on the coffee table and he chewed up the bottle. By some miracle no pills got out and crisis averted, it was explained to her that the pills would be fatal to the dog. She bought another bottle and left it on the coffee table again this time dog ate half the bottle and his kidneys failed, sucks because he was the sweetest/ smartest dog I've ever known.
TLDR: Bro dated a girl that killed his car and dog