Neighbor asks woman to dog sit for a few hours, doesn't return for 3 days: 'By 8pm she hadn't come back'

The only thing you can count on in life is unpredictability. We map out our days, our weeks our months, working toward our careers, developing our romantic relationships, believing what we have been told our entire lives: Life and progress are linear, they are planned, they are predictable.

This, really, couldn't be further from the truth.

While it's true that dedicated work toward something will help you achieve it, and even if you miss your original target, you will end up somewhere further than you were before. It is also true that any plan you make will need to adapt and be changed, your dreams will shift as you yourself become someone you didn't anticipate, and life will always throw curveballs when you least expect it, and give you a glimpse under the surface at the fact that our lives and all of the plans in them are really just a thin and fragile crust resting upon a force of chaos.

And this will trickle down into even the smallest parts of our days and relationships.

It's an absolute fact that each and every one of us has asked for a favor from someone else. If you're saying at this point that you, dear reader, have never asked for a favor from someone else than I ask you to look in the mirror and see a liar. Right? Still with me?

In asking for that favor, we have also each outlined the parameters of that favor to the person we're asking the favor from. When? How long? How far?

And, despite how honestly we tried to estimate the level of commitment they were going to have to make, each and every one of us has been wrong in our estimation. Maybe we misjudged, maybe it was bad luck, or maybe there was some other factor out of our control that cause the person doing us the favor to have to spend more time or of their own cost helping us out.

Now, all of that being said. I have not, at any point in my life, gotten a commitment from someone for a few hours and then had that extend out into literal days, even as an aloof and unreliable teenager and college student.

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There's running a bit late, and then there's whatever this is. Leaving your pet, a dog nonetheless, with an acquaintance and saying you'll be back in a few hours. It's not like it's a goldfish that does nothing but stare blankly out into the void or even a cat that minds its own business most of the time. Dogs are famously known, most of them anyway, for their neediness and reliance on whatever person is taking care of them. They're kind of like a permanent toddler that you shove in a crate to sleep, and even that is growing increasingly controversial.
Beyond that, there's a vast difference between being prepared to watch a dog for a few hours versus a few days. Across any “few” hour period you probably won't have to feed itw. You won't have to take it for a walk either; you might only even need to let it out to do its business once for that entire time.
Once you start looking at the better part of a day, you're going to need a leash, you're going to need food, and you're going to need a plan and some insight about how to properly care for it. Vet contacts and schedules become essential parts of the program.
Definitely dropping the dog off with a leash was a prudent precautionary measure, but one can't help but wonder that since she left a half of bag of food if she didn't know she wouldn't be returning for some time longer than she said.
One thing is for certain here. Something smells bad here, and it's not (just) the dog or the candle.
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