Dear Abby: My friend won’t stop bringing her disgusting dog inside my house

Nypost · May 23, 2026 · 552 words · By Dear Abby

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What to know about Dear Abby: My friend won’t stop bringing her disgusting dog inside my house

DEAR ABBY: A friend of mine calls first or pops by every few months.

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What happened

DEAR ABBY: A friend of mine calls first or pops by every few months.

Why it matters

She’s generous and brings homemade treats, something she has found at the grocer’s or flowers from her garden.

Common ground

The problem is, she always brings her little dog, whom she calls the most “wonderful little doggie in the world.” He goes into all the rooms and jumps on the beds, couch, needlepoint chairs, etc.

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What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: Dear Abby: My friend won’t stop bringing her disgusting dog inside my house?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips”

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Wikipedia and UExpress both explicitly state that the Dear Abby column is currently written by Jeanne Phillips, who uses the pen name Abigail Van Buren.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dear Abby is an American advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name "Abigail Van Buren" and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Abby

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jeanne Phillips ( JEE-nee; born 1942), also known as Abigail Van Buren, is an American advice columnist who has written for the advice column Dear Abby since 2000. She was born in Minneapolis to Paul…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Phillips

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pauline Esther Phillips (née Friedman; July 4, 1918 – January 16, 2013), also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the well-known Dear Abby newsp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Phillips

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Claim 2: “Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069”

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The contact information (DearAbby.com and P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069) is consistently reported across multiple independent web sources and news outlets.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Carlo de Vera (born March 10, 1986), is a Filipino actor. His accolades include a FAMAS Award, two PMPC Star Awards for Movies and two Box Office Entertainment Awards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JC_de_Vera

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Maria Isadora Bianca Soler Umali (Tagalog pronunciation: [ʊˈmali]; born March 2, 2000) is a Filipino actress, television host, singer, dancer, and model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca_Umali

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of t…
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Claim 3: “Dear Abby... was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips”

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Wikipedia and multiple cross-references confirm that Pauline Phillips founded the Dear Abby column in 1956.

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