Trying to get a motley crew of pets to coexist is less like running a household and more like trying to mend a peace treaty. In a rented space, every square inch matters, and your favorite furry friends can’t exactly use their words to compromise.

How would you handle pet arrangements with two aloof roommates? One person recently shared a wild tale from their own experience with Reddit. Here’s what she said.

AITA for telling my roommate I would go to the land lord if they had their friends dog sit

This story is from a few years ago, I, at the time, (23F) lived with my roommates Emma (22F) Kyle (25M) and Jake (21M).

When I moved in there were already 3 dogs in the house and a cat, I moved in with my cat and my puppy (Bosa).

I didn’t find out till after I moved in that the landlord only knew about 1 other dog and mine.

That’s not a strong way to start out.

Sometime later Emma and Kyle got a dog; Poppy.

About a month later they went out of town and asked me to watch Poppy.

The moment they leave Poppy starts to have explosive diarrhea, like constantly, and since she is a puppy she got it all over herself and everything else.

Truly a worst case scenario.

I bathed this dog about 10 times in 3 days, I was taking her out every hour, and bending over backwards to try to keep her comfortable and clean.

Long story short, even with me on my hands and knees scrubbing several times a day the house definitely smelled.

I was watching her for free btw.

She’s a Good Samaritan for that.

Following this stressful weekend they get home and sort of shrug it off, telling me next time I need to try harder.

So this is where I might be TA.

A few weeks later Kyle comes to me and tells me they want one of their friends (Kira 22F) to dog sit instead of me.

Fair enough after the last incident.

Sure sounds great.

Until they tell me they want her to stay at our house to do it; while both myself and Jake were going to be home at the time.

Now I won’t lie I didn’t respond well, I really didn’t like or trust Kira.

That’s a rock and a hard place for sure.

I had met her several times before and had no interest in her being in my house.

She had sticky fingers, always made huge messes and was generally hard to be around to the point that before moving in I had a chat with Emma about her and made it clear I didn’t like her.

I told Kyle absolutely not and that I wasn’t comfortable with that option and kind of ended up ranting about how little I liked her.

She could have potentially dialed it back a little.

He then starts lecturing me about how watching their puppy is a privilege and not a right, and starts complaining about how the house smelled and they had to do laundry when they got home the last time.

We argued and it ended with him telling me I can’t tell them who they can and can’t have in their home and storming off.

This then escalated to both Emma and Kyle making snide comments, muttering about being a good friend, and overall giving me the cold shoulder for about a week.

They really could do without the passive aggression.

Just a few days before they left for the trip I got fed up and told them that if they brought Kira into our house to dog sit I would report their animals to the landlord.

She could dog sit at her own house if she wanted but I didn’t want her unsupervised in ours.

They ended up having board poppy and their other dog.

The vibes in that place must have been abysmal afterwards.

I told a friend this whole saga and she told me I was TA and had no right to tell them what to do in their own home, and that it was out of line to threaten to tell the landlord.

So, was I TA for threatening to report them?

This one is certainly a matter of perspective. Let’s see how the Reddit jury weighed in.

Most were certainly baffled by the logic of all involved.

And clarified what should have been the obvious.

One person questioned the other friend’s judgement.

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But others had an entirely different perspective.

And thought everyone in the story should be held accountable.

More is not always the merrier when it comes to furry friends.