Friend asking for dog food 'compensation'

I would do this too. Along with a comment about how sad you are that you obviously won't be looking after little Oscar again because he was good as gold (or similar).

Fuuuck….. her name would be mud in the schoolyard faster than lightning for this kind of shit. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you - or your dog, rather. What an idiot.

Silly cow I'd just say " I did you a massive favour saving you hundred of £ and this is the thanks I get?"
I'd be wary of shit stirring Susan from now on too
Hold your head up high and ignore
She's literally bitten the hand that feeds

Ignore the cheeky fucker and don’t ever offer to do her a favour again.

I did a similar favour for a school mum who was a single parent and said she couldn’t find a dog sitter for a holiday she’d booked. I knew she was struggling so offered to have the dog for the week. Her dog got on well with mine. However, she was a complete pain in the arse, not really trained and chewed furniture and scratched at the doors. My DH even had to sleep downstairs on the sofa to keep the silly dog company as she would howl and scratch at the doors otherwise. When the mum got back she said thanks and gave me a cheap box of chocolates and that was it. Thing is, she’s also my hairdresser so a free or discounted cut/blow dry would have been a nice gesture. 😂

Sadly, I don’t think she was that bothered about the dog because she had it re-homed within about a month after returning from holiday. 😢

Bill her for dog sitting. Don't sit for her again and if she asks tell her why.

Then put your dog with a professional dog boarder and not some acquaintance at the school gate.

What a truly awful person.

This is absolutely ridiculous on her part.
Depending on how well you got on with her up to this point, I'd try to find out what she'd been told and go from there.
If she insists on being a total arse about this and you can't get her to see sense then I'd research the dog sitting rate for a dog like hers, and charge accordingly less the dog food she wants reimbursing for. And push for the money.

I would agree that one of the other mums has been stirring up trouble here so I'd be careful going forwards and try and find out who was the culprit

Tell Mary of F off and while you're at it give her an invoice for dog sitting less the cost of 4 tins of her precious dog food - cheeky cow.

Please do come back to us and let us know what you decide OP.

If you look at my original post you’ll see I agree with OP! But also it’s not that hard to feed dogs in different rooms.

Then don't be a CF and put your hands in your pocket for full price of professional board 🤨🙄

You're not unreasonable and it's a completely normal thing to say. Ignore the text about food, and stay away from these people, including the person you made the joke to. If she wants to talk in person that's fine you can explain then, but don't buy her anything and kindly explain how hurt you are by her demand.

She can pay you in full for dog sitting or you can compensate her for the food - her choice 🤷🏼‍♀️ CF.

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Give her an invoice for the dog boarding and ask her to deduct the food cost from that. She won't. I doubt you'll see her again but you will have made your point.

Let that also be a lesson to you:
°Charge for your sevices, people rarely appreciate free.
°Feed the dogs separately.
°Don't share unnecessary information.

In which case, don’t be a tight fecker and kennel your dog at significant cost in a professional facility.

The OP is not in the wrong here!

No good deed goes unpunished.

I think you need to find out what she has been told.

"dogbiscuitsareforlife was telling us at the school gates that she gave her dog your fancy food and gave your dog cheap shite instead."

It's not good for dogs to change their diet like that suddenly.

Buy the dog food and invoice her for keeping her dog.

"You asked for X for the cost of dog food, but I saved you Y in dog sitter fees. Shall we call it quits?"

I'd love to do a lot of the suggestions on this thread but to be honest I'd end up doing what @DysonSphere and @BeensOnToost suggest. Give her the cans of food without comment, and never ever do her a favour ever again. (I wouldn't mention any of it to others either, you want to take the high road here.)

Though I do agree that the other mum is not to be trusted in future. Definite shit-stirrer.

I looked after my friends three staffies during her trip abroad (her DM stayed with them during the night) and she provided their food. I saved her £££'s and she was super grateful. She bought me and my DC presents off her holidays (even though I told her not to!) She works really bloody hard and deserved her holiday with her own DCs.

The OP isn't BU. I would just ignore her. Lesson learnt. Don't dog sit for them again.

But it’s not that simple. The dog has a diet which works well for them, you don’t know how they might react to other food.
The dog could have an allergy to an ingredient in the food that it hadn’t been exposed to before. And then your dog is ill, you’re hundreds (or thousands) of miles away unable to do anything, and OP has to sort out vet care. Not to mention that minor symptoms might not be noticed by OP as it’s not her dog.
Because dogs eat the same thing every day, adverse reactions to changes in their diet are really common - because it’s actually a huge change (imagine if you ate boiled chicken and white rice for every meal of your entire life and then suddenly you got given a macdonalds hamburger). And allergies/intolerances are also way more common than people realise. There’s a reason why vets recommend changing food gradually.

I'd tell her to deduct it from her dog's boarding fees, then stare at her.

“I also don't think the mum who told Mary was trying to make trouble.”
She wasn’t? She sounds like a shit stirrer to me, guess you need to watch your words around the school gate going forward. Are mums at your school gate that jobless that this is what they talk about?

100% agree with this.

I'd buy her the tins, and have nothing to do with her or the gossipy shit stirrer one

and then whenever the opportunity arose in future, give it a bit of time obv, I'd tell the anecdote of Mingey Mary, the free dog sitting and the 4 tins to anyone who would listen - casually in passing at a dinner party, over a coffee, just drip it gently gently into the social history of who she is.