Betsy

Betsy was the pet dog of Yut who lived with him until she was murdered by his neighbour, Frederick.

Betsy was born on an animal plantation in the outskirts of Mumbai, India, and was adopted by Yut after he met her on one of his pilgrimages, once he had heard that otherwise she would be euthanised. Although their relationship was somewhat toxic to begin with due to Yut's initial regret because of Betsy's hefty adoption fee, they became close over the following months and formed a strong bond. In fact, Yut decided to snub his other friends in order to spend all of his social energy on his dog.

Very soon after her fourth birthday, Betsy began to develop a bowel condition rare in dogs that made her enter hour long uncontrollable diarrhoea periods after every meal. This was likely due to Yut only ever feeding her bacon and beans. Nevertheless, the veterinarian classified the case as a completely new disease, and allowed Yut to name it in honour of his pioneering pet.

Betsy's illness would eventually get the better of her, as on one occasion she spent her uncontrollable diarrhoea period on Yut's neighbour Frederick's front lawn. Frederick was already a bad-tempered old man, but after this incident he was particularly enraged. That night, Frederick snuck onto Yut's property and abducted Betsy, savagely murdered her in his basement, and shoved her remains in a parcel in his mailbox. To make matters even worse, he forced his neighbour to clean up his dog's faeces before he even discovered that she was murdered. Frederick was charged with murder after security tapes on Yut's back porch revealed he was the perpetrator, but passed away of natural causes before his trial. Betsy's veterinarian later told Yut in an attempt to console him that Betsy would have likely died due to her disease not long after if she had lived. Betsy's remains were sent to China and repurposed as a meat-flavoured plastic toy for parrots in Finland, and was commercially renamed as 'Jack'.

Appearances in the books
Betsy is named briefly in The Adventures of Norman McFinger when Yut experiences a flashback about his dog when Dad McFinger brings up his great-aunt's parrot into their conversation, and is also mentioned in the epilogue."'The plumber remembered about his dog named Betsy who pooped on the lawn of the elderly man named Frederick across the road two years ago, which he had savagely murdered and shoved in a mailbox, and sent to China to be reproduced as a plastic toy for parrots. And as dad was talking about Hyundai, the plumber, who established his name was Yut, remembered his dog.'""'Betsy the savagely murdered dog was renamed Jack as she was generically marketed as a parrot toy in Finland.'"