Woman lived with different dog for four months after groomer returned wrong pooch

17.07.2022 - 21:25 / dailyrecord.co.uk

A woman has revealed she lived with the wrong dog for FOUR months after her groomer returned the wrong pooch.

The fuming owner claims she has been "bribed" for forgiveness after she took her German Shepherd cross Newfoundland, Emma, for a trim ahead of the summer months. She collected her as normal afterwards - but before even walking out the door, the woman started to question her dog's behaviour.

She says Emma was acting differently to her normal happy self but put it down to her being in a stressful environment and thought she would return to 'normal' after relaxing at home, reports the Mirror.

Speaking to Reddit, the woman said: "When we got her back from her hair cut she began to act very strange. Physically, she was identical but mentally she was not there.

"She began to get more aggressive. She bit my hand when I would feed her scraps, or she wanted my attention, ignore people whom she knew and was acquainted with. This dog bonded to me and ignored my father, brother, and neighbours, and she changed her entire routine with the family."

Still puzzled by her dog's behaviour, the woman once again brushed it off and put it down to an adjustment issue, as Emma was no longer seeing her owner's dad on a regular basis.

"My dog Emma was attached at the hip to my father, she would follow him around day and would even express anxiety whenever he would be away for long periods of time," she added.

"It just so happens that my father had to temporarily live on the opposite side of my state for work. And this dog that we had gotten back from the groomers was expressing all of my dog Emma's mannerisms of anxiety of being away from my father - or so we thought."

But after four months of caring for the dog, the woman's mum received