Sharing her story on the forum site Reddit, one woman from the US revealed that her boyfriend’s parents did something very “cruel” to her pet dog, while the pup was in their care.

In her post, the woman introduced her pet Puca, a beautiful spaniel puppy that she rescued after an accident. She took Puca in and she has been the pup’s fur-parent ever since.

Recently, one of the woman’s family members passed away, which left her no choice but to fly to Ireland to attend the funeral. Her boyfriend was coming with her but unfortunately, they couldn’t take Puca along for the trip.

So she decided to leave the dog under her in-law’s care. Little did she know that once she returned from the trip, she would discover something “cruel” and “shocking” had been done to Puca.

The woman noticed something felt “off” with her dog. Credit: Busybee-CR/Getty Images.
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When the couple returned after a month, the woman immediately recognised that something was “off” with her dog.

Puca seemed ‘off’ and acted a little bit different, and the woman noticed that some identifying marks were also missing. At this point, she had a strong suspicion that the dog her in-laws had was not the same as the one she had left with them.

So the woman accused her boyfriend’s parents of doing something with her dog. “I lost my cool and started yelling at them but they denied everything and said I was just stressed and tired,” she said.

After a very heated argument, the older couple buckled and revealed that they traded Puca for a “better-trained” dog since she was “just too much work”.

This was when the woman really got angry with her in-laws.

“Give me my dog back or I will sue.”

The outraged woman shared that she had begun legal proceedings against her boyfriend’s parents over the “cruel” incident.

The woman felt she couldn’t trust her boyfriend’s parents anymore. Credit: laflor/Getty Images.
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In a lucky break, two and a half months after the fight, Puca was unexpectedly returned to the woman.

“I got a call from a vet saying they had a dog that was registered to me,” she recalled. “Apparently the family who took her in didn’t know anything.”

The family gave Puca back to the woman, and she said the puppy had a fantastic time with a loving family while she was “gone”.

However, the woman said there is now a huge rift in her relationship with her boyfriend’s parents because of the incident. “I feel like I can’t trust my boyfriend’s parents anymore and feel like this would be a wake-up call.”

Now, she’s asking fellow users on the forum site whether she should continue with the lawsuit.

Several users on Reddit rallied behind her and supported her decision to continue the lawsuit.

“They were supposed to care for your animal, not sell and replace it because they didn’t like how it behaved,” one user said.

“If you withdraw, it shows them that what they did was okay. And it wasn’t.”

A second user agreed and wrote: “P***ed doesn’t even begin to describe what I’d be feeling if someone did this to my pet.”

“I bet you were actually feeling murderous. Most definitely keep that lawsuit in place,” they added.

What are your thoughts, folks? Should the woman continue to sue, or not?

 

[terryandcarol]

Why continue the stress of sueing your relatives? You have had enough worry and thank goodness you got your little pup back safely. It was a terrible thing that they did to it, and you're entitled to be angry I know. What I think myself is that if you just enjoy loving your little one, feel (as you are) so happy to have it back, an grateful to the people who looked after Puca, it would be the best for you and Puca. Dogs pick up people's feelings, and I'm sure you'd rather be happy with him and put the law suit aside. These are costly affairs and it isn't worth your time and money. Also I'm willing to bet that your relatives have had a huge shock when you found out what they'd done and will I hope learn from your furious reaction. This is just my view. Julie

I would think this to be the best outcome but saying that I don't think I would trust them with any children in the future

 

[PepeLePew]

Seriously time to get these toxic people out of your life and possibly their son as well. If they could do this to your dog then imagine what they might to do a disobedient bad behaved child??