A woman was left in stitches when her husband brought the wrong dog home from the groomers when trying to help out with the chores. CoCo Salazar, from San Jose, California, had just finished a 15-hour work day when she asked her husband to collect their dog, BooBear, from the groomers to save her from doing it.
When her husband Rudy arrived at the store, he told them he was "helping out his wife CoCo" and was there to collect the dog she dropped off earlier. With that, he was handed a white dog and made his way home.
But within seconds of him walking through the door, CoCo spotted something wrong with their family pet - and asked her husband to take a good look at the dog he was holding in his arms.
She wrote on Facebook : "Everyone tells me I do too much, have your family help you out. So after a 15 hour work day. my wonderful husband says 'Honey, What can I help you with?'
"I said 'Well you can get BooBear from the groomers for me and this happens... He comes home with the wrong dog.
"They gave him a dog named Coco because he said I'm helping my wife CoCo. Best husband ever! He had one job."
Thankfully, she was able to see the funny side of things and the couple were quickly reunited with their beloved BooBear.
Commenting on CoCo's Facebook post, one user said: "How does this even happen. Haha. Husband level 100."
While another user added: "The dog is like 'what he damn heck is going on here?'."
A third user said: "At least he tried."
But Rudy isn't the only person who has taken home a stranger's pet as a woman was left outraged after her groomer gave her the wrong dog.
The owner took her dog, a German Shepherd cross Newfoundland, to the groomers for a trim ahead of the summer months and collected her as normal afterwards.
But before even walking out the door, the woman started to question her dog's behaviour, saying she was acting differently to her normal happy self.
However, she put it down to the dog, Emma, being in a stressful environment and thought she would return to 'normal' after relaxing at home.
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.
After four months of caring for the dog, the woman's mum received an unexpected phone call from the groomer, who explained how there had been an awful mix up.
She said: "For four months, I've been taking care of and loving this dog I was calling Emma who looked exactly like my dog but was somehow different from the Emma I once knew.
"My mother made an off-hand comment about how Emma had been acting almost traumatized-like since we got her back.
"My mother got a call from the groomer. The call consisted of her asking my mother to bring Emma to a meeting at her shop immediately because another dog owner asked her the same question [about their dog's recent unusual behaviour] just the other day.
"The dog that I had been caring for was named Bear, and belonged to a pair of near elderly psychopaths. Their dog is my dogs almost identical twin sister from the same litter."
Although she now has her dog back, the woman has been struggling to come to terms with what happened - and has questioned how the mix up will impact the dogs in the long term.
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