I don't know why you wrote in, when you already know the answer! Look at the last line of your letter: (I’m OK just moving on with my friend and not accepting offers of help from her again.) There you go! She's amply proven her utter unreliability by letting a trivial setback like her mother's death interfere with caring for your precious pooch. In fact, just stop talking to her. She's not in your league, you paragon.
Speaking of which, there is no way you can explain to your neighbors that a pileup of unavoidable circumstances resulted in the dog being left alone to bark all night, one night. Such an admission might falsely portray you as fallible and human rather than the utter paragon you are. I'm afraid you're just going to have to kill them all.
That Bad Advice
Dear LW,
I don't know why you wrote in, when you already know the answer! Look at the last line of your letter: (I’m OK just moving on with my friend and not accepting offers of help from her again.) There you go! She's amply proven her utter unreliability by letting a trivial setback like her mother's death interfere with caring for your precious pooch. In fact, just stop talking to her. She's not in your league, you paragon.
Speaking of which, there is no way you can explain to your neighbors that a pileup of unavoidable circumstances resulted in the dog being left alone to bark all night, one night. Such an admission might falsely portray you as fallible and human rather than the utter paragon you are. I'm afraid you're just going to have to kill them all.