‘Milo will be home later today and she has a very good chance of making a full recovery’: Missing dog found injured and abandoned on the roadside, sparks a lawsuit and a breakup, but a heartwarming reunion and a promise of a better life

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Sep 23, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Relationships are complicated, and when you have a canine child to add to a hooman relationship, well you have quite the complicated addition to your worries and woes in life. Which is what our protagonist dog momma found out a little bit too late in her relationship to her boyfriend.

For while, he threw up countless red flags in their earlier days of dating, some that were specific to her dog child no less, it was only when this dog momma had no other choice than to leave her heart and soul dog in the hands of her now ex-boyfriend that she truly understood what all those red flags meant and that she should have done what she could to get far, far away from that man far, far sooner. But such is life, it is full of hard to swallow lessons. We can only hope that this story serves as an adequate warning.
 

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    Me (24F) and my boyfriend (24M) have been together for almost 4 years. We get along okay for the most part, things like him losing something of mine HAVE happened, but never to this level.
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    I have had my dog, Milo (12F) for her whole life, we grew up together and it's really hard for her to get to trust other people. She has always been an anxious girl, but she is the light of my life and was always by
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    my side even in my worst days. 3 years ago I introduced my boyfriend to my family, witch is just my mom and Milo. He and my mom got along okay, but he did not acknowledge Milo in
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    any way, which is fine, I did not expect him to be all over her, considering she does not like that, but I still found it pretty strange because he said he absolutely LOVED dogs and to be honest, I believed that because he
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    would always pet dogs when we were outside. Any interaction for the past 3 years with her was limited, but Milo warmed up to him, she would greet him, go to him for pets (witch he sometime gave) and accepted him on our daily
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  • Well, this sure is not starting off all too good. Though you might wonder how this woman let things continue when her boyfriend came with such glaringly intense red flags from the get-go. Surely she felt something was not right here, no? Then again, love can indeed blind us.

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    walks. 1.5 years ago Milo got sick, she had a tooth infection witch was pretty bad, her whole right eye was swollen shut. I asked my boyfriend to take us to the vet, because I don't have a car. The vet took
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    care of the infection, gave me some antibiotics to give her everyday and instruction to clean the wound that was left after the vet cleaned the puss. For a couple of weeks I did not hang out that much with my boyfriend, I took
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    care of Milo because she was not feeling great. One thing that stood out to me was the fact that he seemed pretty d every time I brought her up, talking about her progress. Looking back, that should have risen some red
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    flags, but I guess | brushed it off. Now that I gave you the short version of the past, this is what's happening in the present:
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    I planned with my mom to go on a short vacation, to visit my grandparents. I was talking to my boyfriend about this trip and I told him who would take care of Milo, my best friend, Alex (23M).
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  • Surely, after admitting to seeing the red flags, you do not leave the love of your life with this person? How could she entrust him with her precious canine child’s well-being like that? One can only wonder what was going through her mind, it is just a shame that this is how things shook out.

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    My boyfriend then offered to take care of her. He was mad that I did not come first to him, stating that he loves Milo and wants to go on walks with her, I reluctantly agreed, considering this "love" for her was out of the blue.
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    The trip was supposed to last 3 days. On day 2, I was talking with my boyfriend on the phone and he casually says that Milo really likes to stay outside. For me, this felt off, and asked him what he meant. HE LEFT MY
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    SWEET GIRL OUTSIDE, HOURS AT THE TIME, ALONE, AND WOULD CHECK UP ON HER HOURLY!!! Mind you, I live in an apartment and I don't have a backyard. Me and my mom left as soon
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    as I told her and we arrived back home at around 9PM. Since then, I blocked my boyfriend on everything and have been searching for my girl. I have printed posters, went out everyday for hours at a time and put her on
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    Facebook groups around my area (if you have any advice of something more I could do, please let me know). Now, he and his friend group say i'm an a le because I have put my dog above my boyfriend
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    in all of our 4 years of relationship. I know for a fact this is not true, but I don't have anyone else to ask, besides people that are really close to me and would be biased.
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    Update Post: (31 hours after OG post) Hi, a lot of people asked me for an update, I should have waited until I got some rest, but you all were so helpful and you
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    deserve to know how this ended.
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    My ex came today to get his stuff, and some of you might be happy for what you are about to read, but he did not get a single thing back.
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    When he saw me he started begging me to forgive him and, thanks to you again, I agreed to forgive him if he told me the truth. He just looked me straight in the face and said "If I'm going to be honest, you won't forgive me". My heart broke
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    all over again, thinking about the worst of things. When he saw me cry, he told me I should get over it because she was already old, but if I really wanted her back, I should get back with him and when he trusts me
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    that I really forgave him, I could see her again. I was exhausted, hopeless and angered, and even though I wanted my girl back, I could not look at him, let alone be with him
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    for however long he thought it took me to forgive him. So he left, not telling me a single thing about Milo. I got a call some hours hours later and on the other end was a lady who found Milo on the
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    side of the road. She told me she would wait for me to come, because when she wanted to pick her up she seemed to be in pain. When I got here and saw her, laying there, all my emotions flooded
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    me. My sweet baby, even though she looked so different, was alive. She is now staying overnight at the vet, she has 2 broken ribs and is dehydrated. If everything goes well, she will be
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    home soon. I appreciate each and every one of you that took the time to guide me in this nightmare. Thank you again. I will be pressing charges.
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    Last update for a while: I have pressed charges and I now have a lawyer. I unblocked my ex like some of you said and it was THE BEST THING I DID, he is incriminating himself and my lawyer believes we have chances of
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    winning. Also, I might be able to get a protection order. His friend group has apologised. His mom is in contact with me. Milo will be home later today and she has very good chance of making a full
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    recovery, at least phisically. My locks will be changed tomorrow.
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