you had four dogs.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: And you were
going on vacation,
and you had someone set up
to take care of the four dogs.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: And then,
according to what I read,
at the last minute,
one of your kids
decided that they wanted to go.
You had to buy them a ticket.
It impacted on the finances,
so you called your friend
and asked her if
she could take care of the dogs.
>> Yeah.
She offered, yes.
>> Judge Judy: Well, she
wouldn't have offered
unless you called and asked her.
I mean, you have to tell her
that you were in trouble.
She's not a soothsayer.
>> Right.
>> Judge Judy:
So you left on what date?
>> July the 11th.
>> Judge Judy: And when did
you return?
>> July the 22nd.
>> Judge Judy: What was
she supposed to do
with taking care of the dogs?
>> She was supposed
to come to my apartment,
and the dogs were supposed
to stay at my apartment,
and she could stay there
if she wanted to.
>> Judge Judy:
Was that your agreement?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: What was
your agreement?
>> She did offer
that I could go
to her apartment and stay,
but she keeps her dogs
locked in a small bathroom,
and it's four of them,
and it smells horrendous,
and I didn't even want to go
over there twice a day to feed
and water them and empty the...
It's like AstroTurf that they
pee and [bleep]
on, empty that into the toilet.
>> Judge Judy: So what?
>> Okay.
No.
I didn't agree to that.
>> Judge Judy:
Well, what did you agree to?
>> She asked me if
I could come to her apartment,
watch her dogs,
feed and water them.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second...
And you said to her?
>> No.
I cannot do that.
I cannot make it over there
twice a day, for one,
and it's too much
because I'm working,
and I have kids.
I can't do it.
>> Judge Judy:
And she said to you?
>> "Please, please,
please, please, please.
I'll be forever in your debt.
I don't have anybody
to watch them.
It's too expensive
to pay for boarding.
And I need to spend this time
to spend with my boys!
Please, please, please!"
And I'm like, "Oh, my God, Beth,
I can't. I cannot do it."
And she's like, "Please, please,
please!"
And I'm like, "Oh, Lord.
Are you kidding me?"
She's like, "Please, please!"
So I said, "Look, you know."
And she goes, "Can you keep them
at your house?"
So I said, "Okay. Fine.
They can sit in my backyard.
My daughters
can help me with them.
That's the best I can do."
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
Did you have
that conversation with her?
>> No, ma'am.
That is not the way
it went at all.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
You want to tell me?
>> I never would have
agreed to allow
these dogs to go to her house.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Don't tell me what the agreement
was.
You picked up the phone.
Ring, ring, ring, ring,
she answered the phone.
You said to her?
>> I said, "Hayden is
going to come with us after all.
Can you please, you and Hannah,
take turns coming to the house
to take care of the dogs?"
>> Judge Judy:
And what did she say to you?
>>
"Yes, we'd be glad to."
>> Judge Judy:
That's all it was?
It wasn't, "Gee, that's a lot of
work to take care
of somebody else's four dogs"?
>> No, ma'am.
she agreed to it.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
When did you first find out that
she took the dogs to her house?
>> We had already
been in Oregon,
and she sent me a picture.
>> Judge Judy:
So you were in Oregon.
Wait just a second.
So you were in Oregon.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy:
And she sent you a picture?
>> Of all four
of the dogs,
and it was entitled Road Trip.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
On what date was that?
>>
Around the 14th or 15th.
It was a few days
after we were already gone.
>> Judge Judy: Okay,
and where was the road trip to?
>> I asked her that,
and she said...
>> Judge Judy: No.
Just show me.
Show it to me.
Show me
on the text if she sent...
>>
I don't have the text.
I've lost that phone.
>> Judge Judy: Why?
>>
That phone was destroyed.
>> Judge Judy: Why?
>> I dropped it
and broke the phone,
and I don't have it anymore.
>> Judge Judy:
I don't believe you.
>> He saw it.
My son was with me.
He seen it.
>> Judge Judy:
You have your phone,
or did you lose your phone, too?
>> Well, sorry to say,
but I did lose my phone.
We just had a flood in Texas,
so yeah.
>> Judge Judy: Go ahead.
>> I asked her,
"Where was the road trip to?"
and she told me to her house.
And I said, "Are the dogs
staying there with your dogs?"
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
Let me see something that
supports what you're telling me
because what you want from her
is $5,000.
Let me see something, anything.
It somehow isn't sitting well
with me that both of you ladies
lost your cellphones
within the last eight weeks,
so that neither one of you has
any corroboration for anything
that you are telling me.
>> This incident actually
happened not this summer,
but last summer.
And every time that I spoke
with her on the cellphone...
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
This happened July 11, 2016?
>> 2015.
>> Judge Judy:
This happened in 2015?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Where the heck
have you been?
>> I just recently paid
off the bill.
And it's taken me a long time
to be able to discuss this
without crying
about my dogs being dead.
>> But yet she could
post on Facebook about it.
>> To help find
the dogs
because she lied and said
that one of them is missing.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.