‘You owe me your dog because I’m sad’: Neighbor demands to “borrow” 24-year-old woman’s adopted rescue golden retriever to soothe her sadness, then calls her selfish and blasts her online when she says no

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Apr 18, 2025 4:00 AM EDT

Imagine having the audacity of a Victorian-era aristocrat but applying it to someone else's golden retriever. That's Jessica, a woman who's revolutionized the concept of entitlement by attempting to timeshare a dog she has zero relation to, because apparently emotional support animals now work like library books.

You know you've reached peak first-world problems when someone knocks on your door expecting to check out and leave with your beloved pet because their noble estate feels like its missing some decoration: "Hello there, I've been feeling a bit glum lately. Mind if I borrow your deeply bonded companion animal for a fortnight? I promise to return him once my serotonin levels are satisfactory." What's next? Borrowing someone's grandmother because yours isn't around, and you miss homemade cookies?

The sheer confidence it takes to ask for temporary custody of a living creature you've met exactly once in an elevator is the kind of delusion usually reserved for men explaining women's reproductive systems. But our Jessica got hold of a whole bunch of it.

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  • When denied this perfectly reasonable request to seize someone else's family member, Jessica's reaction was to call the owner "cold-hearted" and lacking empathy. The emotional equivalent of flipping the Monopoly board when you land on Go To Jail.

    Next time, perhaps Jessica should try the revolutionary approach of adopting her own dog, or better yet, adopting a therapist.

  • "You owe me your dog because I’m sad???"

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  • So this happened a couple weeks ago, and I'm still trying to process it.
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  • 1 (24F) adopted a rescue dog about a year ago. He's a sweet golden retriever named Max, and he's honestly my best friend. I
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  • take him on daily walks, he's super well-behaved, and literally everyone in my apartment complex loves him.
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  • Enter "Jessica" (fake name), who just moved into the building a month ago. She's probably early 20s, bubbly, and honestly seemed nice at
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  • first. We chatted a couple times in the elevator, and she met Max once and said he was cute. Cool. Nothing weird... until last week.
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  • She knocks on my door and asks if she can borrow Max. I was confused and asked what she meant. She says, "Well, I've been really sad
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  • lately and I saw how happy he made you. I think I need that kind of comfort. I just want to have him for like... a week or two."
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  • I laughed, thinking it was a joke, but nope. De d serious.
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  • I politely told her Max isn't a rental and that I'd be happy to go on a walk with her sometime if she just wanted dog company. She then gets angry, saying I was being
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  • selfish, that I "don't know what it's like to be truly alone," and that I should "have some empathy and just let her have the dog for a bit."
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  • When I said no again, she called me a "cold-hearted " and stormed off.
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  • Now she glares at me every time she sees me. She even made a passive-aggressive Instagram story like "Some
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  • people don't understand what it means to share love when others are hurting.”
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  • So... yeah. Apparently I'm a monster for not handing over my dog to a stranger for emotional support.
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  • Lishyjune This is one of the most unhinged things I've read in awhile. The audacity!
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  • I mean of course YOUR audacity, how dare you withhold her happiness this way!
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  • JoanneMia Wow, yeah ok. That's entitlement. I guess be happy she showed her crazy early.
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  • And finally, if not loaning your pup to a stranger for weeks at a time makes you a monster, then please, monster away.
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  • Both Painter2466 And with her attitude who knows when/if your dog gets returned? She may decide its hers.
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  • Honest Weird_9715 ? He is not a teddy bear or something that you can borrow!!!! He is a living being who needs his routine and be with you, specially as a rescue
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  • sunsmokes What a way to beg! If she needs one then she needs to get one. Never know, she may mistreat the dog if it didn't provide her the happiness she wanted.
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