Roommate moves out and leaves their dog behind with remaining roommate, who becomes the pup's foster parent while searching for an adopting family: ‘I can't keep the dog any longer'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 12, 2025 4:00 AM EDT

We always thought it would be super fun to find a roommate who happens to have a pawdorable pet, and share a home with this powerful duo. You get all the fun of sharing a home with a sweet doggo (or hissterical cat, even a ferret, whatever floats your roommate's boat), but with none of the responsibility or financial burden. It's like being the fun aunt or uncle to the best niece or nephew ever.

That is, until your roommate decides to move out and leave their pet with you, like what happened in the story below. Left alone with their roommate's dog, this now foster pawrent was left with all the responsibility they never signed up for. They agreed to look after the doggo for a few days, which turned into weeks, then months, and then, well, it became clear that the roommate was never coming back to get their companion back.

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  • When the foster parent started looking for a furever home for the pup, it proved to be a challenging task. Keep scrolling to read the full story and learn all about it.

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    A woman laying on a bed next to a dog
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    AITAH for not accepting a dog I rehomed back after adopter wants to return them ?

    Rehomed my pet a week ago and now the adopter seems like they want to give them back
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    I was fostering a pet from my former roommate who moved out and initially told me they had to find a new home while they got settled
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    in their new place. They were a friend so despite my reluctance, I agreed. Long story short, days turned into weeks, weeks turned into
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    months. Eventually the roommate ended up ghosting me and I was stuck with the dog.
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    Fast forward began the process of moving and couldn't keep the dog any longer so I began searching for a home. The dog wasn't
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    neutered or anything so it was quite hard, but ended up finding a couple who said they'd take him in.
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    A week later today the adopter messaged me and said the dog and her dog weren't really getting along well. She didn't flat out ask if
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    I could take him back but it seemed implied. I'm moving in a week out of state so | really cannot take him back
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    even if I wanted to. But I feel bad what would you do? Should I even respond ?
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    a dog laying on top of a bed next to a window
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    pinche_loca666 I would explain the move and that while you're potentially able to get them in contact with some of the other people who may have shown interest
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    in taking him when you were looking but you can't take the dog in yourself again. This poor dog though that's so sad that the roommate did that.
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    My first roommate and unfortunately my second both. put me in similar predicaments and it's always sad.
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    Future-Designer2062 I feel so bad for the pupper, but no you aren't. Communicate with the adopters that taking him back is not an option. Maybe there
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    is some kind of training or something that helps dogs get used to each other that the adopters can find? Or maybe they can find a new home for him. Or you can suggest they
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    look into a foster program that will place him in a home until a good permanent home can be found. I just pray he isn't put in a shelter, he almost definitely wouldn't adjust well.
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    Imaginary-Yak-6487 Nta. It's their dog now. She's got to be patient & let them acclimate to one another. If they don't, she can adopt the dog out to someone else.
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