I am so upset with her.

United States
September 3, 2009 11:00pm CST
This is my girlfriends feeling towards another girl. Let me explain the story. Lets call my gf Alex and her friend Dum-Dum. Dum-Dum was going to India for 4-5 weeks for her Masters program. She could have stayed in the US, but chose India instead. Dum-Dum also owns 2 guinea pigs. She asked Alex to watch over them for the time that she would be in India. Alex agree, but requested to have all the supplies necessary (food and bedding) and money need to take care of them since she is a recent college grad who is unemployed. These animals were clearly neglected. They smelled so bad. We ended up bathing them to discover they smell better and have clearly not been washed. That is not all, there nails have never been cut. The problem with the nails were that they were so long they were curling back into the paws. These nail are like dog nails, veins grow with the nail, so you can not cut the nail all at once. It has to be a gradual cutting. That is the back story. About one week before Dum-Dum is supposed to come back to the US my gf notices that Dum-Dum has wrote messages on peoples wall's on Facebook saying she is staying in India for another two weeks. My gf was not coming to my house since my parents did not want to deal with the smelly creatures. She was planning on coming to my house one Dum-Dum came back. These plans were looking like they would not work out. Eventually, Dum-Dum wrote to Alex asking if Alex would be upset if Dum-Dum stayed another two weeks and thus Alex would have to look after the guinea pigs. Alex was not having any of this and wrote the girl a nasty email saying that if the pigs were not picked up on the agreed upon date that they would end up in a shelter. The night before my gf was ready to give them up she got a call from a friend of Dum-Dum saying Dum-Dum asked her to take care of the animals. It turns out Dum-Dum is not back yet...it has been 2.5 weeks. What do you think of all of this.
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@srganesh (6340)
• India
4 Sep 09
Anyhow,your girl friend is relieved from the work.You should be glad that dum dum was atleast responsible to make alternate arrangements.Did she grow the pigs as pets or rear them for selling.I have this doubt by the way she looked after them.Well,she might have thought Alex could spare some more days with the pigs.Was she ready to offer more money,if Alex accept that extension?
• United States
4 Sep 09
She actually has not responded yet. No thank you...no nothing. They were rescue animals. They might have been better off not being with her come to think of it. They were in very poor condition. It is sad. They are poor animals that should not be mistreated.
@elmiko (6630)
• United States
4 Sep 09
i would give her a little bit more extra time before giving up her animals to a shelter.
• United States
4 Sep 09
My gf made travel plans based on Dum-Dum's initial agreement of how long she would be gone.
@zoey7879 (3092)
• United States
4 Sep 09
That Dum-Dum is clearly an irresponsible pet owner. Did Dum-Dums other friend come to get them?
• United States
4 Sep 09
Yeah, her friend picked them up at 10pm that night. So irresponsible.