More of a WWYD. I have a good friendship group who all live close by. They all have much bigger support networks and never ask for any favours, whereas my support network is just DH and my parents.
DH and I have been given a last minute chance to go to an event on Saturday, but we have a dog. The event is an hour or so away, starts at 4pm and we wouldn't get home until gone 11pm. My parents would normally come round to look after the dog but they're away this weekend.
I have a good friend who I know would happily look after my dog if she's free but she's already looked after him for us in the last month and I'm really reluctant to ask her again because I can never return the favour (she has dogs which are massive and bouncy, my house is much smaller and we also have a nervous cat - our dog is older and very chill with the cat). Friend, like all the others in the group, never asks for favours as she has a big family who she'd turn to for help first, and her family always look after her dogs if she needs them to.
I'd love to go to the event but I don't want to be the person always asking for favours when my friends never need to ask me. I have offered help to all of them before but 99% of the time they have family they would ask first. DH and I also only have one car which he often needs for shift work, so I'm very rarely the driver if going out with friends (but I always offer petrol money).
Would you ask or not? I'm worried I look like the CF of the group who always needs a favour. It's not essential we go to this event, it would just be quite nice! I've known friend for over 15 years and I don't ask for favours regularly as my parents can often help if we need it, so I might be overthinking it, but DH also felt uncomfortable about the fact we can never return the favour.