My friend lives with her 4 year old DD and a couple of weeks ago she rang me, very excited because she was getting a dog. I asked her where from, and she told me it belonged to a woman she'd got chatting to on the bus who wanted to get rid of her dog. The reason? Because it was aggressive, uncontrollable and "lairy."
When I questioned the wisdom of her taking in an unknown, aggressive dog from a total stranger when she had a young child to think of, she dismissed this as nonsense because apparently it just needed a bit of attention and a good walk.
Fast forward two weeks and she has just contacted me to say she is getting rid of the dog because she can't control it and her neighbours are complaining. She is very upset, needs to find a home for it, her daughter is distressed etc, and she is telling me how sad it is and she seems to want my sympathy.
Am I being unreasonable to tell her that she brought this upon herself by being irresponsible in the first place, or should I just nod along and agree with her? (TBH it's not the only thing that is annoying me about her lately, and I'm finding it hard to keep biting my tongue!)