13+ hour, 35+ min ago (621+ words) The reader is going on holiday for a week. Her housemates have said they're happy to mind her dog, but she feels guilty" In our weekly series, readers can email in with any financial dilemma and enter the Money Moral Maze. This week's dilemma can be found below " email us at [email protected] with yours. Next month, I'm going away for a week, and I've asked my two housemates to look after my dog, Jasper. He's a friendly labrador, pretty low-maintenance " they just need to let him out to do his business and take him for a daily walk. I thought it would be no big deal and that, as friends, they'd do it out of goodwill. They love him too! But now they've hinted that they want paying " which feels awkward. I get it because looking after a dog is…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago (241+ words) Of all the things which keep me up at night, fretting about Lenny is uppermost Even though the Trust makes serious claims about the bona fides of this report " 5,000 dog owners were interviewed and its author, Professor Mark Rowlands, is an acknowledged expert on animal psychology " it is hard to take it entirely seriously (in case you're interested, Liverpool is ranked in second place with Belfast in the bronze medal position). The main purpose, it seems to me, is a seasonal caution about the welfare of dogs. Most of us, however, need very little reminding. For my part, I bought some lamb kidneys yesterday that I will carefully saut" this evening for Lenny's supper, and I will break off from my labours at regular intervals to throw his ball in the garden. I don't think he understands that this symbiotic…...