Woman went on a date with Uber driver but didn’t expect to come home with a foster dog they rescued together
He decided to take the dog home and cared for it for a week at his place, even though his apartment did not allow pets.
Fostering dogs can be a heartfelt gesture anyone can undertake. However, when someone puts the responsibility of taking care of a canine companion on you after promising to share the responsibility, it can be challenging and frustrating. That's exactly what happened to a woman (u/punkodance) after her date agreed to support a dog they saved together. Sharing what happened next on November 6 with Reddit users, the woman expressed her difficulty in caring for the canine all by herself.
u/punkodance had been dating a Bumble match who drove Uber. On one of their usual rides, the man saw a dog wandering back and forth at an intersection. He decided to take the dog home and cared for it for a week at his place, even though his apartment did not allow pets. As the dog was not chipped, he found it challenging to locate the owners despite posting on multiple online sites. The woman, however, feeling sorry for the dog and her date, offered to host the dog for the next week since her place had a fenced yard. "And while hosting, I'm having trouble releasing her to a no-kill shelter as she's a pit and seriously too sweet," she wrote.
As the woman was short on funds, her date promised to take the dog to get shots, and they planned a day to visit a low-cost clinic. On the day of the appointment, they found out that the wait time was three hours. When the man learned that, he left. Expressing her frustration, the woman was disappointed at her date leaving the dog in her care. "I'm at a new job, so I'm not quite comfortable taking time off yet. But telling someone: 'It's a first-come, first-served low-cost clinic. When you get there, sign in, then wait in the parking lot to be called in.' What about that description lacks in any way that this will not be fast?" she lamented.
Later, one of her coworkers suggested a Petco vaccine site, which made the woman move her plans to get her dog vaccinated to another day. However, she received a text from her date later asking if she "was mad at" him. "I'm like, I’m definitely allowed to be disappointed at the lack of follow-through," she wrote. In a 2011 study by Johanna Peetz and Lara Kammrath, it was noted that people who had the most positive relationship feelings and who were most motivated to be responsive to their partner's needs made bigger promises than others but were not any better at keeping them. "Thus, people were making promises for very different reasons (positive relationship feelings, responsiveness motivation) than what made them keep these promises (self-regulation skills). Ironically, then, those who are most motivated to be responsive may be most likely to break their romantic promises, as they are making ambitious commitments they will later be unable to keep."
Soon after the post went viral, many users shared similar ordeals they faced. u/_Trinith_ wrote, "At my last job, we had a client who got a cat the same way. He went on a date with this girl, don't remember the app. She brought a kitten and left it with him. Never saw her again. He named the kitten Sarah, and he loves her SO much." u/blasto2236 shared, "Ditch the date, keep the dog. Win/win. I adopted my Ellie girl almost exactly 2 years ago and it's the best decision I ever made." u/cynuhstor1 commented, "I'm a dog groomer and this guy had a dog that a girl dumped on him. They went on 2 dates. She asked if he could watch her dog then she ghosted him. Sweetest little Shih Tzu. Guy was cool. They were lucky to have each other honestly."
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