July 9, 2025 • 8 mins
We found an interesting post on Reddit which posed a rather fascinating question regarding the adoption of a dog. What's your opinion on this?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
This is a story we spoke about earlier for the
pub Test.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
This woman said, I.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Adopted my friend's dog over a year ago and she
moved in with a boyfriend who didn't want pets. She
gave me all the rights. The dog became my world
and saved me from depression. Recently, my friend has asked
for the dog back because her boyfriend is now okay
with it. I have refused, saying the dog is now
settled and happy with me. Furious, my friend accuses me
of stealing her dog, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. See,
(00:29):
on one hand, you have the person who's adopted the dog.
She said I got all rights to the dog. That's
how she sees it. Maybe the friend said hey, can
you take the dog? Until I sought this situation. Now,
the comments underneath this are very interesting, and we also
put it to the pub test giving back the dog
mast does it pass the pub test?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And we got this call.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, we didn't. We got no feeling.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I got my dog because she kned exactly that, and
I kept the pub four about father think.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
So it happens my sister went over to live in Dubai.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
She was only going to go for a year.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
As she went over there left her cat Rufus with me,
and when she came back and said you want your
cat back, I said, now, it seems to be happy
with you, and it was, and it became that's a
nice story, long held cat.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Sometimes there can be Kramer versus Cramers stories.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Why do you ways to fold to cramer versus crams?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm hugely dramatic in the courtrooms.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But that cat as well.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
We went from free house house moves and it would
it would be adopted by the street.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Our last house in particular, there was.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
A Frenchman that lived down the road and he was
devastated because Rufus suddenly went missing. And he said to
my old neighbors, said what happened to Rufus? And they said, well,
they moved, and he was devastated that Rufus had gone.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
See maybe if he didn't know that that Rufus had
a family, he might be feeding Rufus and feel that
Rufus is his people get attachments Brendon, where do they
begin and end? So we thought we'd look at this.
The tribal drum is beating for give me back my pet.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I like that, Mel Gibbs it in random.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, all Kramer versus Kramer?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Could you stop with you know, we have some stories here.
Kate has joined us.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Kate, Hi, Jamesy and Amanda, how are you going?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
What was the pasan?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Who got it?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
My god? So it was actually my ex's cat who
I kept Cupandy off. That's fine. But then one day
the cat jumped into somebody's ut camera, right, and he
was really lovely to them. So they kept the cat
for a while and eventually though he showed his true colors.
(02:36):
Because this cat was a bloody use and animal, so
lance he showed his true colors. They got jack of
him and took him to the pound and I had
him my crochips, so I got him, got the phone
call from the pound, come collects your cat. I thought
it'd been long dead, because six weeks when cat re
terms is a long time for no news. And I
(03:01):
went and collected the treasure and I got him back.
But really I didn't want like, I was kind of
glad to see the back of him, right, But I
did the right thing. I went and collected him from
the pound, and he got stuck with the freaking excuse
me the nuisance?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, interesting is that that he jumped into someone's and
I thought.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
What a beautiful and beautiful cat.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Straight to the pound. The minute he got cranky.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Cab was just a giant ahole. Is his cat still around?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
He lived a long and proper life.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, right, sounds like something unusual has gone on.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Man, he lived a long and proper life. Thank you,
Thank you. Kate. Adele has joined us another.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Story about a cat.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Hello, Adele, Hi, guys.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
That's funny. Love you guys so much. I've been with
you Amanda from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I love that you can't just give Amanda praise and.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
No, you Jonesy as soon as you joined Amanda.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Okay, that sounds as convincing a Kate's story about what
happened to a cat.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Oh my god. Okay, all right, well I'll tell you
my story. So I had this beautiful friend and she
really needed somewhere to go, and she asked me if
she could move in. And I was just renting a
house and I said, yeah, look all right, And so
she moved in. She brings her little girl and her cat,
her cat. Okay, dokie. She called it.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Anyway, this naughty cat, he was a time.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
He wasn't you know, desex or anything, and he was
scratching everything and it was the pain in the neck.
But anyway, I put up with her because I loved.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Her, the naughty girl.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
She then moved out and left the cat with me,
right and I was like.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Oh no, I didn't want it.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I didn't want the cat. He was really naughty and
I was like, please take the cat. No, no, I
can't love I'm moving to South Australia. I have no
ideas where I'm going to be. And I'm like, okay.
So then I had to find someone for you know,
to the cats to live with.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
But I did.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
He ended up with a lovely home.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Sounds what can you describe this home? Adel ground? Lovely home?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I know it's true.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
He went with a detective. Oh really that was a
friend about.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And what's what's his name?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Don't ask for details.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We'll believe you. Adele.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I like the idea. This cat's a pain in the neck,
but you know it doesn't belong to me. Next minute,
yes it does. That's what the tribal drum is beating
for today. How are you very well which side of
this equation have you been on?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I stole the dog from next door. Well what happened was,
so I we're going to I said, can you mind
my dog for a couple of months because we're moving
to Port Macquarie and when we come back, we'll sedate
the dog and take take him back. And I went, okay,
no worries. Well, when they came back, I hit the
dog inside the house and said, oh, the dogs in
(06:02):
the backyard somewhere, and they could find it obviously.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So did they to say fair enough and drove off again?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yeah, pretty much. They said we can't find her and
I said, well, she's there. I said, she's definitely there.
She might maybe she got out to the gate because
the gate wasn't as good as it was. And then
they were quite happy with that, and I said, okay, cool.
This dog was ten years old with a half a
year and they wanted.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
To sedate it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, it does sound unusual that they that the dog
went missing on the very one day that they came
back to take it. Now the gate was open, says Bromwin.
They must have been sussegrating me.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Well, who cares? Really?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, but you used to dated the dog.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No, no, no, Broman didn't have the dogs dated and
driven back in the car, asked. Roman says, I'm going
to save.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It from that, so you just hit it in the house.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He did it inside the house.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I heard the date, and then I suddenly thought.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Do you think of something unusual? Ron was saving it
from sa jobs strapped to a chair, Hannibal leg in
his mouth, Aaron, Aaron, is this a story your pet?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I know another pet. We had to catch you up
on our door where we were living at the time,
and it sort of never left day and night. It
was there. We were feeding it, just looking after it
best we could. Time came a few years later where
we decided to move house, so we thought, you know,
we can't leave this cat. What do we do? We
(07:32):
took it with us to the new place. We never
thought to have it scanned because it just sort of
never left. It never had a collar on it anything
like that. There were no posters around the neighborhood, and
it was before the time of sort of social media
where he had Facebook groups and all that sort of
stuff advertising those things, so that if a cat was missing,
so we just thought, you know, let's do the right thing.
(07:53):
Take it with us, so we had him for a
few more years there and then something happened with his
eye and we thought we'll just take him to the
VET getting checked out, and they decided to and we
said to look, we're not really sure own this cat.
We were just looking after him. Took him with us
because they thought were doing the right thing. They decided
to scan him. He had a chip. They couldn't the
(08:16):
details went updated, so they couldn't contact the owners. But
then they decided to look them up on social media
contacted them. They wanted the cat back.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
After seven years years.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, it was pretty devastating for them. There was nothing
bad and that we're just trying to do the right
thing and look after him and make sure he had
a home.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And I don't know how people would feel about the
VET doing that, the V going to such lengths interesting
seven years later.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Wow,
And Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
This is a story we spoke about earlier for the
pub Test.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
This woman said, I.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Adopted my friend's dog over a year ago and she
moved in with a boyfriend who didn't want pets. She
gave me all the rights. The dog became my world
and saved me from depression. Recently, my friend has asked
for the dog back because her boyfriend is now okay
with it. I have refused, saying the dog is now
settled and happy with me. Furious, my friend accuses me
of stealing her dog, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. See,
(00:29):
on one hand, you have the person who's adopted the dog.
She said I got all rights to the dog. That's
how she sees it. Maybe the friend said hey, can
you take the dog? Until I sought this situation. Now,
the comments underneath this are very interesting, and we also
put it to the pub test giving back the dog
mast does it pass the pub test?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And we got this call.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
No, we didn't. We got no feeling.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I got my dog because she kned exactly that, and
I kept the pub four about father think.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
So it happens my sister went over to live in Dubai.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
She was only going to go for a year.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
As she went over there left her cat Rufus with me,
and when she came back and said you want your
cat back, I said, now, it seems to be happy
with you, and it was, and it became that's a
nice story, long held cat.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Sometimes there can be Kramer versus Cramers stories.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Why do you ways to fold to cramer versus crams?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm hugely dramatic in the courtrooms.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But that cat as well.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
We went from free house house moves and it would
it would be adopted by the street.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Our last house in particular, there was.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
A Frenchman that lived down the road and he was
devastated because Rufus suddenly went missing. And he said to
my old neighbors, said what happened to Rufus? And they said, well,
they moved, and he was devastated that Rufus had gone.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
See maybe if he didn't know that that Rufus had
a family, he might be feeding Rufus and feel that
Rufus is his people get attachments Brendon, where do they
begin and end? So we thought we'd look at this.
The tribal drum is beating for give me back my pet.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I like that, Mel Gibbs it in random.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, all Kramer versus Kramer?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Could you stop with you know, we have some stories here.
Kate has joined us.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Kate, Hi, Jamesy and Amanda, how are you going?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
What was the pasan?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Who got it?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
My god? So it was actually my ex's cat who
I kept Cupandy off. That's fine. But then one day
the cat jumped into somebody's ut camera, right, and he
was really lovely to them. So they kept the cat
for a while and eventually though he showed his true colors.
(02:36):
Because this cat was a bloody use and animal, so
lance he showed his true colors. They got jack of
him and took him to the pound and I had
him my crochips, so I got him, got the phone
call from the pound, come collects your cat. I thought
it'd been long dead, because six weeks when cat re
terms is a long time for no news. And I
(03:01):
went and collected the treasure and I got him back.
But really I didn't want like, I was kind of
glad to see the back of him, right, But I
did the right thing. I went and collected him from
the pound, and he got stuck with the freaking excuse
me the nuisance?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, interesting is that that he jumped into someone's and
I thought.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
What a beautiful and beautiful cat.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Straight to the pound. The minute he got cranky.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Cab was just a giant ahole. Is his cat still around?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
He lived a long and proper life.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, right, sounds like something unusual has gone on.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Man, he lived a long and proper life. Thank you,
Thank you. Kate. Adele has joined us another.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Story about a cat.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Hello, Adele, Hi, guys.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
That's funny. Love you guys so much. I've been with
you Amanda from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I love that you can't just give Amanda praise and.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
No, you Jonesy as soon as you joined Amanda.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Okay, that sounds as convincing a Kate's story about what
happened to a cat.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Oh my god. Okay, all right, well I'll tell you
my story. So I had this beautiful friend and she
really needed somewhere to go, and she asked me if
she could move in. And I was just renting a
house and I said, yeah, look all right, And so
she moved in. She brings her little girl and her cat,
her cat. Okay, dokie. She called it.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Anyway, this naughty cat, he was a time.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
He wasn't you know, desex or anything, and he was
scratching everything and it was the pain in the neck.
But anyway, I put up with her because I loved.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Her, the naughty girl.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
She then moved out and left the cat with me,
right and I was like.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Oh no, I didn't want it.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I didn't want the cat. He was really naughty and
I was like, please take the cat. No, no, I
can't love I'm moving to South Australia. I have no
ideas where I'm going to be. And I'm like, okay.
So then I had to find someone for you know,
to the cats to live with.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
But I did.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
He ended up with a lovely home.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Sounds what can you describe this home? Adel ground? Lovely home?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
I know it's true.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
He went with a detective. Oh really that was a
friend about.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And what's what's his name?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Don't ask for details.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We'll believe you. Adele.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I like the idea. This cat's a pain in the neck,
but you know it doesn't belong to me. Next minute,
yes it does. That's what the tribal drum is beating
for today. How are you very well which side of
this equation have you been on?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I stole the dog from next door. Well what happened was,
so I we're going to I said, can you mind
my dog for a couple of months because we're moving
to Port Macquarie and when we come back, we'll sedate
the dog and take take him back. And I went, okay,
no worries. Well, when they came back, I hit the
dog inside the house and said, oh, the dogs in
(06:02):
the backyard somewhere, and they could find it obviously.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So did they to say fair enough and drove off again?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yeah, pretty much. They said we can't find her and
I said, well, she's there. I said, she's definitely there.
She might maybe she got out to the gate because
the gate wasn't as good as it was. And then
they were quite happy with that, and I said, okay, cool.
This dog was ten years old with a half a
year and they wanted.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
To sedate it.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, it does sound unusual that they that the dog
went missing on the very one day that they came
back to take it. Now the gate was open, says Bromwin.
They must have been sussegrating me.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Well, who cares? Really?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, but you used to dated the dog.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No, no, no, Broman didn't have the dogs dated and
driven back in the car, asked. Roman says, I'm going
to save.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It from that, so you just hit it in the house.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He did it inside the house.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I heard the date, and then I suddenly thought.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Do you think of something unusual? Ron was saving it
from sa jobs strapped to a chair, Hannibal leg in
his mouth, Aaron, Aaron, is this a story your pet?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I know another pet. We had to catch you up
on our door where we were living at the time,
and it sort of never left day and night. It
was there. We were feeding it, just looking after it
best we could. Time came a few years later where
we decided to move house, so we thought, you know,
we can't leave this cat. What do we do? We
(07:32):
took it with us to the new place. We never
thought to have it scanned because it just sort of
never left. It never had a collar on it anything
like that. There were no posters around the neighborhood, and
it was before the time of sort of social media
where he had Facebook groups and all that sort of
stuff advertising those things, so that if a cat was missing,
so we just thought, you know, let's do the right thing.
(07:53):
Take it with us, so we had him for a
few more years there and then something happened with his
eye and we thought we'll just take him to the
VET getting checked out, and they decided to and we
said to look, we're not really sure own this cat.
We were just looking after him. Took him with us
because they thought were doing the right thing. They decided
to scan him. He had a chip. They couldn't the
(08:16):
details went updated, so they couldn't contact the owners. But
then they decided to look them up on social media
contacted them. They wanted the cat back.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
After seven years years.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, it was pretty devastating for them. There was nothing
bad and that we're just trying to do the right
thing and look after him and make sure he had
a home.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And I don't know how people would feel about the
VET doing that, the V going to such lengths interesting
seven years later.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Wow,
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