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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: I saw this on Reddit, a woman saying I adopted

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Speaker 2: my friend April's dog a year ago. She moved in

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Speaker 2: with a boyfriend who didn't want pets. She gave me

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Speaker 2: all the rights, whatever that means. The dog became my

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Speaker 2: world and she saved me from depression. Recently, April asked

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Speaker 2: for the dog back because her boyfriend was now okay

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Speaker 2: with it. I refused, explaining the dog was settled and

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Speaker 2: happy with me. April has accused me of stealing her

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Speaker 2: dog and threatened to end our friendship. She's reached out

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Speaker 2: to my relatives with lies. She's trying to ruin our relationship,

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Speaker 2: like not giving the dog away. She's my baby. There

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Speaker 2: was mixed response underneath this.

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Speaker 3: What do people say?

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Speaker 4: What people are saying? Anyone who's going to give away

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Speaker 4: a dog doesn't never deserve a dog.

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Speaker 2: Yes, someone else has said, look, why don't you buy

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Speaker 2: yourself another puppy, another dog, and give this one back

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Speaker 2: to April. Because she's saying here, I'm reading between the lines.

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Speaker 2: She's saying she gave me full adoptive rites. Maybe that's

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Speaker 2: how this woman has seen it. Maybe that's wasn't April's intention.

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Speaker 3: How long did she have the dog for here?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Some are saying the dog still matters to April, give

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Speaker 2: the dog back. Others are saying, no, your friend abandoned

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Speaker 2: the dog. You adopted it. Yep, in your mind, it's

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Speaker 2: your dog. Now keep the dog. Forget April, return the dog,

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Speaker 2: get a new puppy you know who. If you want

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Speaker 2: solace and a dog, do it that way did.

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Speaker 3: Your own dog. Maybe they should put the dog in

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Speaker 3: a circle and they on each side who the dog

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Speaker 3: goes to first.

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Speaker 2: Like in those crazy Kramer versus Kramer adoption movies.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that was incredible.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't mistaken that kid, do you know what I mean? Yeah? Well,

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Speaker 4: Jacinda exactly.

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Speaker 2: A producer was saying that they was living in a

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Speaker 2: flat for a little while.

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Speaker 4: It was temporary. Her parents live on a farm.

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Speaker 2: They gave the cat to the mum because they had.

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Speaker 4: A mice problem. Cat's been very good.

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Speaker 2: The mother has bonded enormously with the cat. But just

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Speaker 2: send us kids now want the cat back. They've moved

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Speaker 2: into it, back into a place. They want their cat back,

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Speaker 2: and the mother's saying, no, I want it.

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Speaker 3: My sister moved over to Dubai and she left her

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Speaker 3: cat Rufous for us to mind, and I didn't mind it.

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Speaker 1: I like the cat.

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Speaker 3: And then she subsequently came back and I said, you

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Speaker 3: want your cat.

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Speaker 4: Bag and said you settled.

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Speaker 3: Here, and then we had Rufus for another eighteen years.

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Speaker 4: Would you have given the cat bag? Yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 4: would have.

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Speaker 2: But if she had said I'm going away and you

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Speaker 2: psychologically think this cat's mine, now.

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Speaker 3: I never thought that.

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Speaker 4: But because no one cat the cat that's just exists

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Speaker 4: in the world. Well, that's what we're asking this morning.

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Speaker 4: It's intriguing, is it keeping the pet?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Does it pass the pub test?

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Speaker 1: Any woman who puts a man before her dog isn't

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Speaker 1: worth it. I am a feeling. I got my sister's

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Speaker 1: dog because she did exactly that, and I kept the

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Speaker 1: pub four about five or six years.

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Speaker 5: I don't think she said the puppy, She's show us

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Speaker 5: the boyfriend puppy.

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Speaker 4: Learn that.

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Speaker 5: I think it's just a bit said that she's letting

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Speaker 5: her boyfriend have so much control over her, like.

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Speaker 1: You can't have the dog, you can have the dog? No?

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Speaker 1: And what might not love? Yes, it does if the

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Speaker 1: original owner was still paying for the dog's food and

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Speaker 1: vet bills and everything it needs. But then yes, it

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Speaker 1: goes back. But if it was less and said here

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Speaker 1: and the new owner was feeding it, like paying for

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Speaker 1: the food and vet bills of that, well that's that

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Speaker 1: person's dog now, end of story.

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Speaker 5: I think it's a really hard one. I think it's

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Speaker 5: got to be taken on a case by case basis.

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Speaker 5: But I actually think we've got to think about the

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Speaker 5: poor animal who bonds with the human and has no

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Speaker 5: say in it. So maybe we should think about what's

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Speaker 5: going on with the animal and how they're coping.

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Speaker 2: So should they do what you said earlier, Brendan, where

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Speaker 2: they stand at opposite ends of a room, maybe with

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Speaker 2: both of them with sausages around their neck, and see

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Speaker 2: which one the dog goes for.

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Speaker 3: I think that's a show on ESPN.