‘By sheer luck and nothing else, an ex flatmate of mine working at a vet clinic... asked if a dog someone had brought in to be put to sleep was my Sticksy’: A woman’s boyfriend gets busted while trying to inexplicably get rid of her dog child

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Sep 26, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

Jealous partners and pawdorable puppers are a terrible combination, as you will come to find by the end of this story. For when one man was tasked the protection and care of his girlfriend's dog child, it soon became all too apparent that he simply could not hack having his partner's love shared between himself and her canine child.

A petty and small act which no doggo deserves, no matter how much love and attention they take away from their momma. And while this man wanted to do something rather awful to the pupper in question, the canine gods stepped in to make sure that no harm would come to the pure pupper soul and that the man would get what he deserved for being so cruel. This is the story that should open your eyes to the way that the love of a doggo can make others feel incredibly fragile.

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    My BF (Jay) left for a trip up the coast to help family on Friday morning. While I was at work Friday I got a phone call from one of my ex flatmates, Bob, who I lived with at uni. He
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    thought he had my dog with him, and phoned me because someone had dropped him off to the vet surgery he worked at to be put to sleep.
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    Bob sent me pics and it was my Sticksy. I'd recognise him anywhere, I grew up with him and he was so close to me when I left home to study there were no questions about it, Sticksy stayed with me.
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    Bob kept Sticksy with him and I drove to pick him up as soon as I was out of work. Bob also showed me a phone recording he took of the vet's security camera screen, and there's no doubt in the world it's Jay dropping him off.
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  • Holy guacamole, what a wild turn of events, to be going about your normal daily life, only to be suddenly confronted by the fact that your heart and soul, your dog child has been dognapped with the purpose of being put to sleep. We cannot imagine how it must have felt to see your own boyfriend doing such a thing.

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    He's even wearing the same clothes he left in this morning before I went to work. Jay has texted me a few times today and I don't know why but I'm not confronting him about this. I'm
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    actually scared I will utterly lose it at him. I'm running everything through my head on why he'd do this. We talked sometimes about moving north to be near his family, or overseas within a few years. I can't
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    white scruff dog being checked out by a vet in blue scrubs
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    believe I'm trying to find reasons for him to do what he did or reasons for me to not rip him a new one and dump everything he owns out on the front lawn and set fire to it tonight. I'm half numb and half stunned beyond
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    rational thought. Why can't I get functionally angry here? He texted me this morning like he normally does when he's away. I replied like normal though we're not big text talkers anyway. He
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    asked me a couple of times if I was OK. Everything in the texts I'm trying to read into what the h I he thinks he's hiding.
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  • Well, yeah, we can understand why this woman did not immediately confront her partner about his heinous behavior. Because what the heck are you meant to do or say when someone does something so vile and then plainly acts as though nothing happened. It is maddening.

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    I have a dog, Sticksy, who's 11. Yesterday morning my bf left to go up the coast to see family. He doesn't return until sunday night.
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    By sheer luck and nothing else, an ex flatmate of mine working at a vet clinic 80km from me called me while I was at work and asked if a dog someone had brought in to be put to sleep was my
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    Sticksy. It was. I had him hold Sticksy and I collected him friday. My flatmate showed me a recording he made of security video at the vet clinic and it's definitely my ex dropping sticksy off.
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    How illegal is this? I currently live in a flat that I rent, and my bf pays half but I'm the only one on the lease. I want him out asap, or I want to be out of this situation as soon as possible. What options do I not have? A friend
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    of mine once tried to have a violent ex removed and it took months. I want to be out of this immediately. Are my only options to move? How do I protect myself from what my bf (ex to me now though he
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    doesn't know it yet) may do to the place I rent when I return. I presume my landlord couldn't kick him out if I leave right away. He's never shown any weird tendencies before so maybe I'm
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    overthinking this. My bf doesn't know I know what he did nor that I have sticksy back. Sorry for the scattergun of questions. I'm scatterbrained at the moment and he only returns in 20 hours
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    or so and I don't ever want to see so much as a hair on his head again.
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    Edit and a quick update. A night's sleep with good people around me helped. I phoned a workmate to see if I could go stay there with sticksy, and she came over here for the night instead. We spoke, and we have a plan. Thank
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    you for the links to NSW laws, it looks like I might be in the clear with forcing my ex out. I am the renter, I am the only name on the lease, and we had no written agreement. From my understanding he is a boarder or lodger
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    golden retriever lying on its back being checked out by a vet
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    and can be removed quickly. I'll have to clarify of course but that gives me confidence. I was freaking out because I didn't know where to start last night.
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    My ex will be confronted with more people I know in the house backing me up. Sticksy is also in good health. He's eleven and a bit too fat and slower than he used to be but he's fine.
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    update2 He came back. He lied. I was upset and looked it. we gave him enough rope to make excuse after changing excuse. First he was shocked sticksy was gone, and would help look for him. Then he was
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    shocked someone took him to a vet to be put down. Then when confronted with proof it was him, he claimed sticksy was hit by a car and he had to end his suffering. When confronted with a live happy sticksy he turned it
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    around and it ended with him telling me he should have had me put down. My coworker and her partner and I told him he was not welcome in the house any more and that they were moving in with me,
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    and everyone in the house (and the neighbour we both get on well with who saw him return on Friday to take sticksy) now knows what kind of person he was. He left of his own accord and took some of his stuff. I'm no closer
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    to knowing for sure why he tried what he did. Sorry for jamming up legaladvice with this one, it wasn't much of a legal ending.
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