you have a Pekingese,
a little dog.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: And you are
a neighbor of Mr. Johnson.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: And Mr. Johnson
has a little Chihuahua, female.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: How old
is your dog?
>> Maybe 6 years old,
somewhere around there.
>> Judge Judy: Have you had her
since she was a puppy?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And how old
is your dog?
>> Four years old.
>> Judge Judy: And you've had
the dog
since the dog was a puppy?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Can I
ask you this question?
You look like
responsible people.
Why didn't you get your dogs
fixed when they were little?
>> I chose not to fix Sydney
because I actually
wanted to breed him,
but I wanted to breed him
with his own kind, not out
of the breed that he was.
>> Judge Judy: Why did you want
to breed him?
For what reason?
>> Well, I thought
that he would be lonely,
so I wanted him
to have his own siblings.
>> Judge Judy:
Well, that's ridiculous.
I mean, it's actually
ridiculous.
I mean, I know.
I read something that you wrote
here about that,
and I certainly don't understand
why
you didn't have your dog spayed.
>> I just don't really like
the idea of doing that to a dog.
And when my dog was a puppy,
he was mostly an inside dog.
So...
>> Judge Judy: She.
You have a female.
>> I have a female.
Sometimes, I refer to her as he
because I think of dogs as hes.
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>> Judge Judy:
Well, they're not.
They have genders.
>> It's obvious, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy:
They have genders.
Anyway, this is what this
silly case is about.
You claim that you had
an agreement with Mr. Johnson
to breed your Pekingese
with his Chihuahua
when she was in heat,
and you were going
to get the pick of litter.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: And it is
your claim that he made
that agreement with you,
that he was present when you
opened the gate
between the two properties,
and the dogs got together.
And couple of months later,
according to you,
the Chihuahua had puppies,
and you
never got your pick of litter.
That's what you want.
Mr. Johnson says
he never agreed to that.
You trespassed on his property.
As a result of that, his dog may
or may not have gotten pregnant
from your Pekingese.
He has an interesting
counterclaim.
Part of it is that dog
didn't get pregnant
from your Pekingese.
The other part is,
he's suing you for the vet bills
because his dog did get pregnant
from your Pekingese,
and he had a lot of vet bills,
and all the puppies died.
So let's start with...
I need your position,
Mr. Johnson.
Did your dog become pregnant
as a result of the coupling
with Ms. Morgan's Pekingese?
>> It may have, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: It may have?
You're not sure?
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: Well,
if you're not sure,
then your counterclaim
is dismissed
because if it wasn't her dog,
she wouldn't be responsible
for any vet bills, right?
>> Wouldn't that be only part
of my counterclaim, Your Honor?
>> Judge Judy: No.
I don't buy the trespass, sir,
because it was either you
or your daughter that allowed
her dog to go on your property,
and I believe there's no
question that she didn't
open the gate herself
and do it with nobody there
and nobody's encouragement.
Do you understand?
I don't believe that...
>> I understand.
>> Judge Judy: Yeah.
>> Would I be allowed
to make a comment?
>> Judge Judy: Yeah.
Absolutely.
>> At the initial time,
I didn't think that the dog
was pregnant by her dog
because I felt
my dog was already pregnant,
even prior to meeting her.
When the dog had puppies,
one of the puppies looked like
the dog
that I thought was pregnant,
and the other two puppies
looked like her kind of dog.
So I came to believe,
subsequently,
that probably the other two dogs
may have been
puppies from her dog.
But by that time,
I was so frustrated
by her keeping
coming around my property,
bothering me and trying
to contact my daughter
that I just was frustrated.
>> Judge Judy: Well,
I don't pay you
for your frustration, sir.
She came around your property
because she wanted to see
whether or not
the puppies were born.
It was something that,
clearly, your daughter
was familiar with, right...
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy:
...because you had discussions
with her about having these
two dogs get together.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Right.
And how old are you?
>> Thirteen.
>> She was 12 at the time.
I don't know why a grown woman
is coming
talking to my daughter...
>> Judge Judy: I don't know.
>> ...without my knowledge
about anything like that.
I wonder why she
would want to do that...
>> Judge Judy: Mr. Johnson...
>> ...in the first place.
>> Judge Judy: Mr. Johnson,
is what you're telling me, sir,
as you're standing there,
that you never had
a conversation with Ms. Morgan
about mating the dogs?
>> Yeah.
>> Judge Judy: Listen to me
very carefully.
Are you telling me
that you never had
a conversation with Ms. Morgan
about letting the two dogs mate?
>> Judge Judy: Your Honor,
I never met the lady prior
to that day
that she was on my property.
I hadn't even known she was
talking to my daughter.
>> Judge Judy: Just