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Well, can you still consider it stealing if your victim willingly goes with you?
That might be a dog owner’s conundrum when she found out that her seven-year-old neighbor “stole” her Husky and replaced it with a stuffed dog toy.
Amanda Sullivan of Glouchester, Massachusetts caught her neighbor, Olivia Myers, in the act of stealing her dog and shared the clip on TikTok that has now gone viral.
In the video, Olivia approaches Sullivan’s 11-year-old Husky, named Gunnar, who was minding his own business.
The little girl proceeds to swap Gunnar’s collar – from a “Mama’s Boy” collar to an “Olivia’s Boy” collar. And then leaving behind a stuffed Husky toy beside Gunnar before asking the pooch to come with her.
“Gunnar was so conflicted whether he should actually go with her or wait for me to come outside like I always do,” Sullivan wrote in the caption.
After hesitating and barking a few times, Gunnar caved in and went with Olivia.
Sullivan later “confronted” the little girl who she found playing with Gunnar. She asks Olivia, “did you steal my dog? did you change his collar?” earning a mischievous look from the little girl.
She explains, “When I got an alert from my backyard camera and saw what she was doing, I thought I’d let her play it out. I was laughing inside the house, which I think Gunnar heard, which explains why he was so hesitant to go with her.”
“I can’t say that you can call it ‘stealing’ when he goes willingly,” laughs Sullivan.
It turns out that the two are actually best friends! Sullivan reveals to New York Post that Gunnar and Olivia have been inseparable since they met two years ago.
She even says that there has been an ongoing “beef” between the neighbors on who Gunnar belongs to.
But talking to TODAY and describing Gunnar and Olivia as “two peas in a pod”, Sullivan seems to have accepted that there’s just a special and undeniable bond between the two.
“At this point, I’ve accepted that we have shared custody of Gunnar,” says Sullivan.
