Man Accepts Friends With Old Dog During Storm, Renter Accuses Him Of Exposing His Dog To Diseases

"He said I am either stupid or willfully exposing his dog to disease"

Maryjane

• Published in Animal Stories
• August 8, 2023

Certain things are easy to take for granted in our modern environment. And one of the easiest things to overlook is the invisible force that fuels almost everything in your home: electricity.

Because electricity has become such a vital part of daily life, it's easy to forget about it—until it's no longer available. A power outage, often known as a sudden loss of electricity, can have a negative impact on everything from working to cooking to being able to see at night.

In most populous places, the global energy infrastructure is resilient, built to withstand physical elements and human faults that might potentially shut down the system. While this works most of the time, the system occasionally fails, and the power goes out.

A power outage can be caused by severe weather, human error, equipment failure, or even animal interference. In today's story, a storm caused widespread power outages in the hot southern state where the OP lives.

So the OP's friends and their son’s elderly dog needed a place to cool off. OP sent his house renter a text, giving him a heads-up that he had overnight visitors and that they had an old, frail, grumpy dog with them.

The OP advised him that their dogs were both gated into the kitchen. After all these arrangements, a quarrel still came up between the OP and the renter, and you can read all about it as you keep scrolling down. 

Here's the headline of the story

OP's family were watching their grand dog for their son, who was out of town

OP asked him not to let his dog out of the kitchen if he came home unless he wanted to take his dog to his room

OP texted him back explaining that she was only trying to protect the old dog and to stop being paranoid

That’s the OP's prerogative and none of their dogs were ever in any danger

OP has offered the following explanation for why they think they might be the a-hole:

I might be the a-hole because I allowed a friend’s elderly dog to stay the night and my room renter believes it was irresponsible and disrespectful of me to allow that without checking with him first because the visiting dog might have some disease that could be harmful to his dog.

I know the elderly dog very well and it never even crossed my mind to check with the renter because I knew there was no disease threat to his dog or my dogs. But my renter says it was ignorant, at best, and that I should have known to ask.

Get him out!

Doing everything legally possible

The OP is in charge

The OP is truly a hero

Easier to blame the OP than himself

Good thing the renter will be gone soon

The renter sounds like he's got issues

The OP was only trying to help out his friends and the arrangements he made with the renter wasn't bad as his own dog was involved as well. But still, the renter found issues with it probably because the OP has told him to leave.

Redditors dissected the whole issue and the OP was declared not the AH. Do leave your own verdict in the comments below.

Maryjane