Published on : 13 Nov 2025, 8:09 am 4 min read

The Gujarat High Court will hear on December 1 a man’s plea seeking divorce on the ground that his “dominant” wife would bring stray dogs into their apartment and force him to sleep with them in the same bed.

Though the husband has alleged other forms of cruelty by the wife, the wife's interest in stray dogs, allegedly at the cost of their matrimonial life, is at the heart of the husband's divorce appeal.

A family court had earlier turned down his plea for divorce, ruling that he had failed prove that his wife had picked up the stray dogs only to harass him. The High Court in March 2024 had issued notice to the wife on the husband's appeal against the family court decision.

On November 11, the Division Bench of Justice Sangeeta K

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