‘Maybe I am a nut case or a crazy dog person for ruining my relationship over a dog.': Woman finds her lost dog at a vet hospital after 5 months of searching, and finds out her boyfriend let him escape, ending their 3 year relationship

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Aug 31, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Relationships can be really tough with doggos. Especially if it is the case that the doggo has been in one of the peoples' lives before they met and became a couple. And while most couples do manage to make it work, there are some less than stand up people in this world who have issues with sharing attention and love who tend to be pretty toxic when there is a doggo that predates them in a relationship. And much to the misfortune of the woman who tells this story, her ex-boyfriend was one of those people.

And an especially bad version of one of those people as he let his partner believe that her dog ran away for five months, and then upon its miraculous return barely even batted an eyelash, when the truth all along was that he was responsible for the dog running away and was too gutless to admit his abhorrent act in the first place. 
 

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    I apologize for the huge wall of text, but I'm very angry and upset right now and I don't know who to ask about this because it's 3 in the morning. Tl;dr at the bottom.
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    5 months ago, I was out shopping for groceries when I got a text from my boyfriend asking if I let my dog out before I left. I told him I didn't and that he was asleep on the couch when I left and I'd appreciate if he let him out while he was over. He
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    said of course and that was the end of the conversation until I got home. My apartment has a slider that leads out onto a small yard where my dog does his business. There's
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    one gate fence that leads out into the parking lot that has to be unlocked from the inside. When I came home, my boyfriend was in the kitchen waiting for me and said that my dog accidentally got out. He
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    was very apologetic and said he opened the slider to let him out and somehow the gate was open and my dog ran out and he couldn't catch him.
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  • Oh man, this is not what you want to hear when you have just gotten home. It is like that feeling that you have forgotten something at the store, only the something is your heart and soul, and you desperately need that back. Erugh, how could the boyfriend have been so irresponsible.

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    I spent two months calling around to shelters, humane societies, rescues, animal control, putting up fliers, going to these places to look, asked my neighbors, I looked everywhere for him.
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    I was heart broken and I basically haven't stoped crying. My dog has never been one to run even if the gate was open, he loves to be around people and if his people are around, he stays put. I
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    adopted him when he was 3 years old when I got an apartment and he's my first dog I'm responsible for on my own, not a family dog.
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    He's now an older guy, going on 7, he doesn't have it in him to run away. He knows he has it good and sees running away wouldn't have any benefits. And beyond that, when I rescued him, he went through training and has very good recall!
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    Not perfect, but he comes 8/10 when he's called! And then two days ago I get a call from a vet hospital two hours away saying that they scanned a stray dog and found his microchip matched my information! I may have
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  • Holy moly, this is almost too much of a rollercoaster ride for us. What a strange turn of events that such a good doggo would have run away off its own accord. This story smells funny, and we think the smell is coming from the boyfriend, and no because he has not washed in a few days…

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    Small dog alone in a park with a leash in its mouth looking for someone
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    broken a few speed limits getting to him but he was there! My little man was at the f g vet hospital! I cried and asked a thousand questions.
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    He was found in that town wandering the day prior by an amazing woman who brought him to the vet. They said when he was dropped off, he didn't have a collar on and they asked the woman and she said he was found as is. But he
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    was found as is. But he was a little malnourished and dehydrated so the vet put him on a drip and got some food into him and scanned him today when they opened. And then they found me!
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    I was so overwhelmed and happy and couldn't even start my car once I got in with him because I couldn't stop crying for a good 10 minutes.
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    I drove him home, gave him a bath, and called/texted everyone he was home safe! My boyfriend's response was "Really? Cool
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    Then he came over yesterday and obviously all I wanted to do was tell him what happened, but he didn't even seem like he cared. He just nodded along as I talked. I asked him if something was wrong, but he said he was fine.
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    My dog wouldn't go near him which was weird considering my dog loved him before. I just figured he was scared to be home with other people at the moment and needed time to adjust.
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    After my boyfriend left, I couldn't help but start maybe overthinking which has led to this post.
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    First: My dog wore a martingale collar with his tags on it and the collar had my information stitched into it. And he had his rabies tag, dog license, and an ID tag with his name, address, phone number, and said "I am microchipped!"
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    For those that don't know, martingale collars (the one I had on him) are not buckle or break away collars. They have to be physically tightened or loosened to be taken off. Not something my dog could have just slipped when he ran off. At least,
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    not easily. (Don't come for me for having this collar on him, I now know the risks but I didn't at the time! He's now wearing a break away collar!)
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    Second: He won't go near my boyfriend. My boyfriend did try to lean down and pet him when he came over yesterday and as soon as my dog noticed, he ran into my bedroom and didn't leave until my boyfriend left.
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    Yet, he's said a very excitable hi to a few of his favorite neighbors, both male and female, young and older. Usually my dog would be walking over to my boyfriend and sitting by him until he acknowledges him with a few pets or a treat.
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    Third: The gate. It's a very rare occasion I use that gate. Usually I use my front door, walk down the hallway, and get the mail or leave my apartment that way through the lobby. I almost never go around the building because that means I have to open the door
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    Cream colored dog behind mental fence looking wet and unkept
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    with my keys and it's a longer route. I don't remember even using it the week my dog went missing. It only opens from the inside. And I've never once before had an issue with it opening on its own. There's no
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    damage to it and you can bet I fiddled with it when he first went missing to see if it was broken or there was something wrong with it. Nothing was. It latched fine and closed fine.
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    Forth: When my dog went missing, my boyfriend, now that I look back on it, wasn't invested. When I made the first round of fliers to put up, he actually asked "Do you really think these will help?" Looking back, I
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    don't think he cared one way or another if my dog was found. Never once before did my boyfriend say anything negative about my dog. He was never overly affectionate or excited that I had a dog, but he
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    would throw the ball and pet him when he came over. They were never best friends cuddling up on the couch, but my dog did see him as someone to play with and hang out with.
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    I broke up with my boyfriend when we talked. He denied everything which wasn't unexpected. My landlord checked the cameras and the one that is facing parallel to my yard doesn't show Remy or my
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    ex on it the day he went missing which doesn't go with my ex's story. Not definitive proof, but makes me more suspicious. PS: Please microchip your animals if you can, it's so important.
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