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Who Keeps the Pet
A Breakup Guide to Deciding Custody, Resisting Pressure to Rehome, and Getting Your Dog or Cat Back From an Ex Who Won't Give Them UpBy Imad Muratspahic
Length3h 21m
About this audiobook
The lease is getting split, the furniture is getting split, and somewhere in a hallway full of boxes sits a cat carrier that nobody has claimed out loud yet. Breakups come with no custody court for a dog or cat, no judge weighing anyone's best interest, just property law, hurt feelings, and whoever moves out first. One partner is threatening to leave unless the pet is rehomed. An ex has moved out with the dog and isn't answering texts about bringing him back. A three-cat household now has to somehow become two one-cat households. Who Keeps the Pet is a calm, practical guide to deciding who keeps a shared dog, cat, or other companion animal when a relationship ends, and what to do when the other person won't agree, won't negotiate, or won't give the pet back. Divorce guides assume a family court built for children, not cats. General breakup books skip the pet entirely. This book fills that exact gap: how ownership of a shared pet actually works, how to prove it, how to divide a multi-pet household fairly, and the real (if imperfect) legal options when an agreement falls apart.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Other
Length3 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 3, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Important Notice
2When the Relationship Ends, the Cat Doesn't Choose Sides
3Chapter 1: Property, Not Custody: How the Law Actually Treats a Shared Pet
4Chapter 2: Proving Ownership: Building Your Paper Trail
5Chapter 3: When a Partner Says 'Rehome the Pet or Me'
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6Chapter 4: Dividing a Multi-Pet Household
7Chapter 5: Writing a Pet Settlement Agreement That Actually Holds
8Chapter 6: Making Shared Time With the Pet Work
9Chapter 7: When Your Ex Won't Give the Pet Back
10Chapter 8: Taking It to Small Claims Court
11Chapter 9: The Lease, the Landlord, and Who's Actually Allowed to Keep the Pet
12Chapter 10: Vet Bills, Insurance, and the Financial Loose Ends
13Chapter 11: If You Decide to Rehome: Doing It Right
14Chapter 12: The Grief Nobody Warned You About
15Chapter 13: Doing It Differently Next Time
16A Home for the Pet, Not a Trophy of the Breakup
17Quick Reference: Pet Custody Glossary, Document Checklist, and Decision Tree
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