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ZaBlanc
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I live in Colorado.
My brother-in-law was doing a move and asked us if we could dogsit for his Pug. We said sure. We've dogsat for the dog before, no problems. We have two cats, and they are mostly scared of the dog and run downstairs anyway. No demands.
We dogsat for 9 hours, then he picked him up. The next day, he comes over with the dog again (for no good reason) and asks if we want to see his apartment and then says he'll leave the dog at our place. My wife asked if they'd be OK witht he cats alone...he said should be fine.
The next night he gets home from work and finds that the dog's eye is swollen shut. Long story short, he takes him tot he vet and they have to do surgery to fix it. My cat had scratched him (self-defense obviously). The surgery will cost $2,200. UGH!
Question: Who is liable? We'll help my BIL out, but am I liable? Should I be forced into paying half? Was the fact that my cat could only have been defending himself the point of this issue? We received no fundage for the dogsitting, and no demands were made about the cats by my BIL. Should we have just declined to do it? Should we have imprisoned our own cats in a room? Should he have just kept his own dog in a bathroom while he moved himself??
My brother-in-law was doing a move and asked us if we could dogsit for his Pug. We said sure. We've dogsat for the dog before, no problems. We have two cats, and they are mostly scared of the dog and run downstairs anyway. No demands.
We dogsat for 9 hours, then he picked him up. The next day, he comes over with the dog again (for no good reason) and asks if we want to see his apartment and then says he'll leave the dog at our place. My wife asked if they'd be OK witht he cats alone...he said should be fine.
The next night he gets home from work and finds that the dog's eye is swollen shut. Long story short, he takes him tot he vet and they have to do surgery to fix it. My cat had scratched him (self-defense obviously). The surgery will cost $2,200. UGH!
Question: Who is liable? We'll help my BIL out, but am I liable? Should I be forced into paying half? Was the fact that my cat could only have been defending himself the point of this issue? We received no fundage for the dogsitting, and no demands were made about the cats by my BIL. Should we have just declined to do it? Should we have imprisoned our own cats in a room? Should he have just kept his own dog in a bathroom while he moved himself??