Is NOBODY wrong in the post ? POST : My mother has recently had an operation on her shoulder and asked me if I could walk our dog in the mornings, a job which she normally does. Of course I’d love to do it, but I have a fear of going outside on some days. It sometimes gets to a point where I can’t leave the house to go shopping or hold a steady job. I’ve told her about it before but she just thinks I’m faking it to get out of doing stuff and paying my way through life.

I’m more worried for the dog’s sake that if my mental health gets the better of me one day, nobody is going to walk him, so do I have to grin and bear it anyway? It doesn’t help that the last time I walked him, he barked at 2 pit bulls who jumped on him and would have mauled him if I hadn’t had him on the lead to pull him away.

Of course this isn’t a case where I don’t want to walk my dog, it’s more “sometimes I’m too scared to leave the house by myself, let alone while I charge of an animal.”