I thought of a post script to this - even if I were polite, she still potentially would have felt like a loser who was unable to care for the dog.
So it was emotionally easier on her just to kill it then, huh?
I have to be honest with myself - the reason I haven’t adopted a new dog is because I work crazy hours and am out of town a lot. If I got my dog back, I’d explain to my boss that I needed to make a lifestyle change to take care of him better, but I bet the poor guy would end up home alone more than he would like. The dog owners at my work actually bring their dogs to work and keep them in their cars. (The lot is covered, no sunshine, so don’t freak out.) They walk their dogs at lunchtime and on breaks and the rest of the time the dogs wait in the car.
I suppose that’s technically better than leaving your dog at home in a crate all day, but I just won’t do that. A dog should have room to run. My ideal solution would be to give him to the four year old down the street who worships him. That way I could stop by and take him jogging with me every day and take him hiking on the weekends, and the rest of the time he’d be playing with a group of little kids who would think he was awesome. I imagine that would be doggy heaven (although I bet the little girl would make him wear a dress occasionally and sit at a tea table with her stuffed animals. Hey, everybody’s got a cross to bear.)
Since I’m being honest with myself, I couldn’t in good conscience take him away from a family that already saved him once. I sure wish I knew who they were, though.
You sound like the sort of person who should have a dog just because you know why you shouldn’t right now. That sucks. I don’t have one right now for several good reasons, and I really really really really want one.
I’m glad the doggy is okay. She couldn’t have called you? Even if you couldn’t have kept him, you were the other person involved. Sheesh.
Everyone who has come down on the side of crucifying the ex, thanks for commiserating! I feel better knowing I’m not the only one who feels this way.
For you two who aren’t in favor of crucifying the ex, what the hell are you thinking? If I wanted her side of the argument rationalized, I certainly wouldn’t be posting this in an online forum, and I sure as HELL wouldn’t be posting it in the BBQ pit! I posted here for some gratutious flameage in my ex’s direction! Take your rationality, your objectivity and your stupid logic to GQ or something!
danged lousy pit moralists… 
Thanks, Whiterabbit. I understand exactly where you’re coming from. I’m lucky I’m close to a good offleash dog park, where I can go and play with random dogs occasionally. I’m going to start going more regularly, that’s my best bet for running into my dog and his new owners 
When she does, tell her you’ve thought it over, and you’d love it if you, she, and Fluffy could be one happy family again…
Why is taking the dog to a pound, where he is very likely to be euthanized, the righteous thing to do when a much better option was available?
She’s a bitch, and deserves the ration of shit she got here.
I can see this leading to sitcom like hijinks when she tries to find a doggy replacement.
What were you thinking in leaving the dog with her? I read your OP over a few times after my initial time in getting it wrong. Looks to me like it was a disaster you knew was in the making.
I’d say something like, “Let’s get this nutcase out of here ASAP!”
GAH!
I mean…gah!
Fair comment. It was an extremely difficult decision. one that I’ve been paying for in grief ever since. I wish I could have seen a different way out of it but I couldn’t. I certainly didn’t anticipate her intentionally doing something like this, but this is a criticism I fully accept.
Now that’s out of the way, can we proceed with the crucifixion?
Oi. Can one of youse pop down to the hardware store? Seems we’re bung out of nails 'ere.
I would pay money to hear how she responds to this.
Which crucifixion? I look at the OP and I see you reacting to a lot of rumor also.
Perhaps you could, as posters above suggested, ask the pound to ,mail the adoptees an (unsealed, so they could review it) letter from you thanking them for saving your former pet and giving them your name and address so they could contact you in case some kind of emergency forced them to part with your him/herin the future. That way, you wouldn’t be disrupting his new home, and you would be helping to ensure that he would never be threatened with the pound again.
I think Leviosaurus means the crucifixion of his ex.
I’m just wondering…why the cops would be looking for her for a five-figure debt…when being in debt hasn’t been a crime in, like, a century? Can anyone 'splain that to me?
If you don’t pay your debts at all and don’t respond to creditors, it’s fraud.
Let me put it this way: suppose I ask you to loan me $50,000. Then suppose I don’t pay it back, or ever intend to. Is that legal?
Huh? When I worked for a credit bureau, I distinctly remember the only recourse the creditor having was not a charge of fraud, but rather a civil suit regarding unpaid debts.
So, when’s the last time someone got arrested for an unpaid debt? Or did you just pull that out of your hat?