While She Was On Vacation, Her Mom’s Boyfriend Sold Her Dog On Craigslist And Pretended He Ran Away
A 20-year-old woman wound up moving out of her mom’s house back when she was just 16.
She and her mom get along ok, but she always felt her mom tried to be more like her friend than her mom.
6 months ago, her mom get a new boyfriend named Greg, and he moved in with her mom pretty quickly.
“I didn’t really like him (he’s very arrogant, and was a registered SO), but I was kind to him, so there was no reason for this to happen,” she explained.
As for what exactly happened? Well, she and her boyfriend went away on vacation and her mom had agreed to watch their 1-year-old male mini poodle Benji.
4 days into their vacation, her mom calls her to say Benji escaped from the backyard while she was working but Greg was at home.
She was so upset to hear this and told her mom that she would get home early, but her mom said it would be ok and she would find him because Greg said he had only been missing for an hour.
While she waited, she called every single shelter in her city and the surrounding ones, and nobody had Benji.
When she got home from her trip, there still was no word on her missing dog. After 2 weeks, she got a call from a vet’s office that was located 3 hours away from her.
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A person had brought their dog in for vaccines, and they found out that the dog had a microchip with her phone number. That dog was none other than Benji.
She explained to the vet over the phone how her dog had run away from her mom’s place, and the vet put her on hold to chat with the people who had her dog.
The vet then got back on the phone and said the people bought Benji on Craigslist. She was floored and thought someone found him and tried to sell him to make money.
Boy, was she wrong. The people gave her the number of the person who sold them Benji, and they gave her Benji back.
“I had explained everything to them, and they told me they met a man named Greg (same name as my mom’s bf) and he was offering Benji for $600,” she said.
“I asked if they’d gotten his number and they gave it to me and I was completely and underly shocked it was his number.”
“I drove the 3 hours and picked up Benji, I gave them all the information I had on him so they could do a report to get their money back. Then I called my mom telling her everything that just happened and she was just silent.”
“She literally didn’t say a word and just hung up. I was livid at this point, I called up some family members (on that 3-hour drive home) and just ranted about the entire thing. All of them agreeing with me that she should break up with him and kick him out (the house is in her name).”
As soon as she arrived home, she started sending texts to her mom and Greg to let them know just how upset she was.
Her mom attempted to apologize and claimed she had no idea Greg had done that to Benji.
“I went over to her house texting to get into my car so we can talk, all I basically asked is when she’s breaking up with him, and when is he moving out,” she continued.
“She had told me that, she can’t just break up with him and he’s not moving out. I told her if that’s the case then I was going to press charges on him for stealing my dog, she then begged me not to, so I just told her to get out of my car.”
She’s considering cutting her mom out of her life entirely after this, but she isn’t quite sure about how to move forward.
How would you feel in this situation?
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