to be annoyed about this situation with neighbour and her dog?

Ahhh….missed the dd. That IS funny.

I lost my mum last year and would never have failed to sort out the dog, especially when someone had done me a great favour at short notice.

Right? How hard is it to hand your debit card to whoever's there supporting you and say, 'Can you sort this, please? I'm too devastated.' Then you can go back to crying.

She is a cheeky fucker, OP and how dare she put stress on to you. Text her/call her and tell her you'll be handing the dog over to a shelter unless she either gets her arse back today or pays for kennels. You shouldn't have to pay for the dog to board and lots of people wouldn't have that kind of money anyway, so be very firm with her. Bereavement or not, it doesn't affect her responsibility towards her dog and certainly she's taken massive advantage of your good nature. Ooof, I'm so angry she has caused you stress before your lovely holiday.

OP can't force her parents to take the extra dog!

Are you in a neighbourhood Facebook group?

I'd post begging for someone to look after it, along with a photo of the dog so everyone who knows this woman will see what she's done. Hopefully she's in the group too and sees it.

You definitely wouldn’t get the money back,

Grief does weird things to people.

But that doesn’t make it your problem to solve.

You also cannot spend all day sorting this out when you’re going away.

O would put a time scale on the text as well as Biden e to cover yourself if needed.

“As I have informed you I am going on holiday today. If you haven’t responded by 10am with instruction of what to do with your dog then I’m going to …..”

If you do need to send dog to the pound or wherever it’ll help you to have written evidence in case she decides to get difficult later.

I actually wondered if her mum had died or it was just an excuse too. Cheeky fucker sounds the sort of person to do that.

My, you sound unpleasant. Do you speak to people in that deliberately patronising way in real life, or only from the safety of your keyboard?

The OP is packing her bags to go on holiday. She had been clear to the dog’s owner that this was going to be the case.

I do occasional pet sitting for family and friends. Invariably I get daily texts asking for an update. Responsible owners care.

I get that the neighbor has been bereaved. She still needs to sort out the care of her pet.

I may get jumped on, but I feel this is a bit like saying "well, your parents are looking after your children, why can't they take mine as well?".

Let us know what happens to the Doggy OP 😢

I don’t see what the vet can do, you can’t just leave it there !
Probably a bit late now, but dogs trust and rspca do dog fostering according to Google.

Op I know you’re fed up of hearing this but the only thing to do is bring him to the kennels. Part pay and figure the rest out after the holidays. Ridiculous of the relative that said your neighbour was too upset not to help out

The problem is that most Kennels’s will not take a dog without proof that their vaccinations are up to date.

This. If you lose your mother, your dog is your comfort and you don't want to lose ot too.

Google says to contact the local council/dog warden and rescues as the dog is now abandoned.

It also says to keep a paper trail, so send one last message saying what you will do with the dog, then contact the dog warden to register the dog as abandoned and tell them the owner has abandoned them with you, then contact local rescues and the RSPCA as the dog is abandoned.

Your neighbour doesn't deserve to get her dog back. Poor thing.

Something isn’t sitting right here. No committed responsible dog owner would do this and not even enquire how thier pet was, even in a state of grief. Could the initial conversation and distress have been a show because she wanted to go away and couldn’t find anyone to take the dog?

Do you know her mum’s name and location? She is probably staying at her mum’s home, so you could try and get the landline number from the online phone book? Call that and see if anyone answers.

I’d send a text message with the details about the vet, kennels etc in case she isn’t listening to voicemails. I’d also maybe include a line like,”I know this is a very difficult time and I don’t want to make anything arse for you but I’ve been put into a situation where I can’t really avoid it. We are not losing £4000 (or whatever the holidays cost) and missing our holiday so the dog needs alternate care.”

She needs to be told that her sad situation isn’t your financial hit to take.

I’d take him to the local animal shelter and explain he’s been abandoned rather than the vet. How sad, poor dog ☹️

Vets is probably the easiest option. You often see a post saying an animal has been handed in to a local surgery. They can sort where it goes next. Given your time scale other options such as rspca may not work

Do you or your neighbour have a particularly close relationship with the vet? I think in most situations it would be unlikely for a vet to take it, I doubt my vet would. Vets make a living by providing medical care to sick/injured animals for payment and often don’t have capacity to provide other services for free. I agree with others that it will likely need to be the dog warden as this is actually their role.

Cinnamon Trust will help

Kennels can usually obtain vaccination records by phoning the vet and the OP knows the dog’s vet. Having said that, kennels might be all booked (holiday season)