They Left Their Dogs With Us Permanently
In June 2019, my neighbors came to my door. I’d had some experiences with them before, as they invited us for a BBQ not long after they moved in. They asked me and my wife if we would look after their pets and their house for the next three weeks, as they needed to return to Taiwan since his mother was dying.
They even left me $500 dollars for food for their two German Shepherds and their cat. This is where it gets interesting. I don’t know what happened to them, but they just never came back. I don’t know if they ended up in some sort of trouble or decided to just not come home at all.
Today I found out their basement flooded, probably sometime within the last week. Apparently a pipe burst, but the entire room is completely screwed. I paid to have the leak fixed and I spent all of today using my shop vac to drain their basement to the best of my abilities.
Between this and one of their dogs needing surgery, I have spent several thousand dollars of my own money, and frankly the damage to the basement was pretty awful. I don’t have their insurance paperwork, and don’t really know if I can even do a claim for them.
On top of this, his two giant German Shepherds, while they are amazingly good boys, are becoming almost too much for us to handle. Their last name is extremely common, and their Facebook profiles are private, which gives me very little avenue to tackle this down. Story credit: Reddit / ThrowLADogs29291