Redditor Asks If She Should Report Her Friend For Finding A Lost Dog And Gifting It To Another Person Without Trying To Find Its Owner

"I was a little bit shocked that he decided to randomly steal a dog and put no effort in trying to get back to the owner."

Filip

• Published in Animal Stories
• February 24, 2023

Finding a new home for an abandoned dog is always the right thing to do and probably among the most generous ones in the world. But what if the dog wasn't abandoned, and yet, you find it a new home?

Well, that's assumably stealing someone else's dog. It doesn't matter if you did it with the best intentions.

The fact that someone can lose their four-legged friend because you didn't go through all the steps to find the rightful owner is not generous at all. So this Reddit user feels the same for her friend.

Recently, her friend found a lost Bull Terrier. He tried to find its owner by posting its picture on social media, but something happened, and he deleted posts the same day, just a few hours later.

It was very strange to Redditor, so she asked him why he did so. His answer was also really suspicious to the OP, especially the fact he had found a new home for the dog in just a couple of hours.

Besides, her friend didn't even check if the dog was microchipped. Knowing how her friend tends to distort the truth, Redditor took the matter into her own hands and tried to find the dog's owner by herself.

That search was short-lived as she managed to find the owner in no time, but now she believes that her friend literally stole someone's dog and gifted it to another person. That caused her a dilemma if she should call the owner behind her friend's back or try to talk to the friend, so she reached out to other Redditors for help.

Take a look at the whole story below.

The original story:

She saw that her friend had found the dog and was trying to find its owner, so she suggested to him what to do next:

But her friend had different plans for the dog:

"I was a little bit shocked that he decided to randomly steal a dog", explained the OP.

Then the OP tried to convince her friend to make contact with its owner regardless he had already found him a new home:

This whole story made the OP doubt her friend:

So she thought maybe she should call the owner of the dog herself:

But she wasn't sure it was the right thing to do:

"Y T A if you don't speak up"

"I would be devastated if someone stole my dog"

"You don’t need this person in your life"

"Call the owners now"

"Your friend is lying. Report them."

"Your friend is TA here."

The OP updated the post with the newest information he found out, and it's such a turnaround:

It turns out that the OP's friend was telling the truth from the beginning. But if nothing else, this story taught us that we shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

OP had her own reason to doubt her friend's intentions, but maybe she was wrong about him also. Anyway, the most important is that the dog is well-taken care of now.

Filip