Friend asking for dog food 'compensation'

Yes, and scratching her head as to why she can never make/keep any friends. 'Why do THEY keep messing it up, It can't be me??'

The real pity is the dogs like each other.

What an idiot! Someone has done her a massive favor and looked after her dog for free and she is worried that another dog ate some of the dog food!
From your update it sounds she has realised her error - maybe seeing you walk in the opposite direction to avoid her has got her thinking 'shit, there goes my free dogsitter!'

I would simply say I am sorry about the dogs liking to try each others food but it won’t happen again so best you find someone else to do your holiday dog care.

Tell her you are happy to refund her for the food your dog ate if she is happy to pay you for dogsitting.

Buy her the food and include a note telling her you won't be taking care of her dog for free again. She probably thinks your dog ate her dog's food the entire time and that she more than paid you in dog food. She is crazy.

And talk to the woman who told her as well. Tell her you took care of her dog for free and tell her that she's demanding compensation. Make sure she knows what the dog owner did with that information. Thank her for telling the dog owner because now you know the owner's true colors and won't be wasting time with her ever again.

I doggysat for my daughters dogs in her home a couple f weeks ago, for 14 days, one if her dogs is on a special diet. Her and my new sil were so grateful. It would have been >£1000 for kennelling and tbh the dogs wouldn’t cope with kennels🤷‍♀️I was having to return home, 20 miles away, to look after my own animals that I had left with my partner and daughter as well as my herd of ponies.
When they came home they bought me gifts worth £100’s even though I wasn’t wanting to be paid.
I can’t believe thus woman wasn’t grateful considering you weren’t even ‘mates’😡
I would give her the 4 tins of food and not even take any payment, she obviously can’t afford it, I don’t think she had even booked the dog into kennels and just took advantage of you😡
Put it down to experience and if she does ask again, and she will, I would drop her in it at the last minute🤷‍♀️sometimes we are just too kind for our own good.

Tell her to “have sex whilst travelling”. Life literally is too short for shit like this when you are doing someone a favour.

£40?!?! I pay £70 per night!! And I provide the food.

Tell her to jog on and don’t t ever offer to look after dog again!! She is being totally unreasonable and she knows it.she had her break and came back to a happy dog. Win, win for her and there dog plus she saved £££££’s. Call her out and let all your contacts know just how much a sly, ungrateful individual she is.

That's sad, but at least it didn't end too badly and she did some backtracking when she realised her overreaction. You have nothing to feel bad about and you can move on and be magnanimous towards her (at arms length). Some people just act before they think, it's nothing personal, and it's more likely to end up rebounding on them if you let nature take it's course. The phrase "no good deed goes unpunished" springs to mind.

Oh my good do not buy this woman any dog food, dogs are dogs, of course they will eat each others food. I’d avoid the school mum at the gates sounds like she likes to cause a drama 🙄

Nerve of some people 😂! It’s stories like this that makes you wonder why you bother with folk. The next time I saw her, Id mention to her that you forgot to bill your time for dog sitting then ask her how much her dog food and to just take it off how much she owes you. Mic drop and walk off. Could add how ungrateful she has come across as all you done was do her a favour.

God some people are unbelievable!

I think that ignoring her won't be a remedy, she's possibly one of those people who are so entitled that possibly she felt that she was honouring you to have her little treasure for a week. Or she wouldn't talk like these.

To me these people must be educated, take courage and with great courtesy say that after sparing her costs and time for dog sitting she should simply feel grateful, the cost of dog sitting is certainly more than that of dog food so you're even now.

It takes courage but it sets boundaries, which is what this person is in need of.
I guess she'll manifest entitlement again if you don't stop her.

Yep! This!

I think this just about sums it up😆

I'd buy her 4 tins and give them to her along with an invoice for the dog boarding at the going rate

That’s so disappointing op. I think id take her up on the point “let’s call it quits” and ask her how can you call it quits when you looked after her dog for free and she paid your generosity with paranoid allegations about dog food. Then I’d ignore her from then on

No suggestion has been made that the dog had digestive issues, it was merely a preference of the owner- lots more work to ensure they didn't eat each others food is not reasonable if she was not getting paid to sit the dog- you can't reasonably demand someone does more work because of your preference if they are doing you a favour.

Jesus... talking about biting the hand that feeds.

Because it never happened

People are just loons aren’t they?!

Yes - please do this! preferably in small change. Makes the point, I think 😄

Invoice her