My friend kindly offered to have my dogs for me over Christmas and New Year. My boy is a JRxPatterdale and my girl is JRx Toy Poodle so pretty small, intelligent, active creatures. They are also loyal and about as obedient as dogs get. She's had them before with no problems and asked to keep them on after NYE because she's been having a tough time st home and her dd (16) really appreciated having them around.
She returned them yesterday. They came home thin, starving, their beds were covered in mound and smelled strongly of damp. She said she'd run out of dog food so she'd been feeding them "bits of ham and whatever we were having". I gave her £20 the week before last for food and told her just to text me if she needed more money. She also told me that she'd walked them at lunchtime that day. Now I know my dogs and I suspected she hadn't been exercising them. When I took them out this morning they ran and ran and ran and ran. They hadn't been out for days! 
There really isn't a point to this thread, I'm just venting. My poor dogs :(
They didn't deserve that. And it's so horrible to think of them distressed and confused. My boy dog chewed up a toy (children's toy, not his) and he only ever does that when he's upset :(