A woman who recently re-homed her dog to a new family was in for a surprise when she realized the dog "ended up at animal control." So she re-adopted her.

In a post shared to Reddit , the anonymous 24-year-old writes that she re-homed the dog to a family that lives near her boyfriend six months ago.

"I live with my brother in a two-bedroom apartment," she writes, adding that he didn’t want a dog, "so I respected that."

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"The family I re-homed her to lived around the block from my boyfriend so I would constantly see her loose roaming the block on multiple occasions and so would he. She would end up at h

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