Dear LexiDee:

You are welcome. You purchased the dog and because you don’t have a social media account, you asked Tina to post on hers about the dog, for the purpose of finding it a home. You talked with Tina about the general practice of shop owners putting down aging dogs, and in the post, she suggested that the dog that you purchased would have been put down if you didn’t purchase it. The shop owner read Tina’s post, and although neither his name nor his shop’s details were mentioned, he got angry, yelled at you and threatened to file a defamation suit against you.

It is interesting how this is a “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished” for you and possibly for the shop owner as well, if he is an honest, hard-working man who, unlike others, is not in the practice putting dogs down for profit. Maybe Tina also had good intentions, to help you, to help find home for the dog and to protest against putting dogs down for profit… and her good deed too did not go unpunished (?)

“The pet shop owner knows where I live, and I’m worried what he might do” – if he is a hard-working, honest person, I don’t think that he will physically harm you and risk losing his business and going to prison. do you? Plus, when he was very angry at you, he threatened to file a defamation suit against you, he didn’t threaten to hit you or do anything illegal against you.

A defamation suit would not be possible to file, I figure, because (1) the post was on Tina’s social media account, not on yours, (2) his name and shop details were not mentioned in the post.

What do you think?

anita

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