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DBlain · 04-05-2012, 07:45 AM

agree with the others here as well, nothing is owed because it is not your friends fault. I have two stories here that sort of apply.

I lived in the same sub as a young family with a small duschaund and it was always in the street, I brought it back up to their front door several times and was quite verbal about telling them what might happen, the poor dog was finally killed by a car

, so what did they do, get another dog, 6 months later same thing happened

Not saying that would be the case but your never know especially with young kids that are constantly in an out of the house and backyard, it is so easy for a dog to get out.

I was 19 and sent out to pick up Chinese food for the whole family. I was almost home and had several bags of the food on the front seat. There was a group of people hanging out by the curb in front of a house down the street from us, there were several cars parked there as well. Because there were so many people I started to slow down and just before I passed them, a large lab type dog ran in front of my car, I hit the breaks and swerved but still clipped the paw of the dog. The bags with food like shrimp with lobster sauce and wonton soup went flying all over the front seat. What a mess especially since the car had cloth seats, just about all the food was ruined and my mom and I had to spend hours trying to scrub the car clean and it took months for the smell to go away. I heard that they thought we should have paid the vet bill, so I visited them with the food bill and told them if they wanted to pay for that as well as a steam cleaning of the car interior I would pay their vet bill or we could just call it even and they could agree to leash their dog when on the side of the street. Most people do not want to hit a dog and will often damage their own car, or spill their Chinese take out

just to avoid doing so, but if you do it does not mean you are the one to pay, it means NO matter what the excuse is the owner of the dog was not being responsible. Paying for a new dog will not make the kids forget anyway.

04-05-2012, 07:45 AM	#22
DBlain Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Oakland County MI Posts: 6,190	agree with the others here as well, nothing is owed because it is not your friends fault. I have two stories here that sort of apply. I lived in the same sub as a young family with a small duschaund and it was always in the street, I brought it back up to their front door several times and was quite verbal about telling them what might happen, the poor dog was finally killed by a car, so what did they do, get another dog, 6 months later same thing happened Not saying that would be the case but your never know especially with young kids that are constantly in an out of the house and backyard, it is so easy for a dog to get out. I was 19 and sent out to pick up Chinese food for the whole family. I was almost home and had several bags of the food on the front seat. There was a group of people hanging out by the curb in front of a house down the street from us, there were several cars parked there as well. Because there were so many people I started to slow down and just before I passed them, a large lab type dog ran in front of my car, I hit the breaks and swerved but still clipped the paw of the dog. The bags with food like shrimp with lobster sauce and wonton soup went flying all over the front seat. What a mess especially since the car had cloth seats, just about all the food was ruined and my mom and I had to spend hours trying to scrub the car clean and it took months for the smell to go away. I heard that they thought we should have paid the vet bill, so I visited them with the food bill and told them if they wanted to pay for that as well as a steam cleaning of the car interior I would pay their vet bill or we could just call it even and they could agree to leash their dog when on the side of the street. Most people do not want to hit a dog and will often damage their own car, or spill their Chinese take out just to avoid doing so, but if you do it does not mean you are the one to pay, it means NO matter what the excuse is the owner of the dog was not being responsible. Paying for a new dog will not make the kids forget anyway. __________________ Lola my amazing little yorkie-pom Donna Last edited by DBlain; 04-05-2012 at 07:50 AM.