Good news, i followed everyone's advice reached out to the police and the embassy. Explained the situation, and gave them a bunch of information.
Tonight i got a phone call from them, explaining they just decided to stay much much longer and spend time with family/friends. They apparently asked his wife's brother to come and collect the animals and get the key a long time ago back in August, but never followed up on it.
He apologized and said he was sorry, he gave me two options, and asked if i wanted to keep his pets since i have had them for so long, or he will push his step brother to get the animals. Apparently the animals don't really mean anything to him or his wife which i feel is quite shitty.
He apparently can no longer access his email, and passed me along a new email address/phone number i can use to contact him. But told me he doesn't have plans to return to Canada anytime soon. I mentioned the water damage, and he just said they can buy a new house or get it fixed when they get back.
He was also quite confused and somewhat annoyed, about the lengths we went to get in touch with him. He didn't understand why we reached out the embassy. He then offered to send me a bunch of money to square away the inconvenience, and that was more or less it.
I don't know if it is a cultural thing, however i feel kind of pissed off at how little he/his wife seem to care about the pets/his house.
Anyways me and my wife are going to keep the pets simply because well i don't think ether of us can part with the dogs and his cat at this point.
Barbed_Dildo on May 14th, 2020 at 05:18 UTC »
"Eh, we'll just buy a new house when we come back..."
circuitloss on May 14th, 2020 at 05:16 UTC »
How does "three weeks" turn into a year, especially when abandoning a house and pets? This incident is so bizarre.
Even putting aside the animals for a moment, who in their right mind leaves property for that long without even calling to check on it?
Dropped_Rock on May 14th, 2020 at 05:01 UTC »
Definitely have mixed feelings on this one. One the one hand the guy is a dick for just leaving his pets and not caring about them either way. One the other hand I'm glad that they just decided to stay and nothing terrible happened to them there.