Irresponsible Dog-sitter

Date: 7/6/2022

In the first part of this dream, I am walking a dog in the wee hours of the morning, maybe 4/5am. It's dark out and I'm in the streets of Halifax. The dog is huge and very friendly and goofy, tan colour with brown accents. At one point the dog sees something across a couple of streets (a giant bug) and gets off leash and chases it. As soon as he gets to the bug, he eats it and is hit by a car. At the same time another giant dog from someone else has done the same thing, got off leash, chased this bug and was involved in the same collision with the car. The woman with the other dog was older than me, maybe late 40s/early 50s and she ran towards the accident. I on the other hand knew that I was dog sitting, got extremely overwhelmed with the feeling of responsibility and walked away without a word (which feels worse by the way!!!). I can't remember is what order the next few things happen but she finds me, the woman, and I feel so guilty. She talks to me about how awful it was that I didn't come to the dog's aid. She knew the dogs owner (real owner) and said they would be disappointed. She had taken both dogs to the vet and I was looking at the sheet of paper with all of their treatments on it. My dog had the giant spider removed from it's stomach but was otherwise not too bad, just shaken up. The dog didn't seem affected by me running away and was happy, fine and eating. Her dog was fairly fine too but the woman was really giving me a piece of her mind. She told me the vet bill was $17,000 and that I would have to pay her, this part didn't surprise me really and I just knew that I would have to make up the money somehow. Next there is a part where Olivia is sleeping over at my house. I'm not super comfortable with it and I think we're sharing a bed. Again, around 4/5 in the morning I decide to get up early and get in the shower so "she doesn't get it first". I shower and when I get out, she is awake. I think she is staying with me out of necessity because of a boyfriend or something and I'm impatient with her presence. She has these pop bottles in the kitchen sink with her tomato plants in them and they are doing very poorly, she is lackadaisical about it and making a huge mess. I offer advice about the plants... The next scene, I am at a party and I run into the owner of the dog. I am a little shy but not too guilty and he gives me a hug, he's shorter than me by a lot and has greasy black hair. He's obviously a friend but I get the impression he's more down on his luck. He very matter of factly says he won't be paying me any of the $17,000 I'm going to pay the woman and I just sort of accept it, I knew it. Out on the front porch a bunch of adorable hippies are squished in on the couches, cozy and chatting and friendly. I look to the garden below on the ground and I see that some of the melons are so ready that they've cracked open. I say "these beans are ready!" and I pick the two and hand them out. They are shaped like a cracked melon but are full of savory beans, like pinto beans. The folks enjoy they and I have a few and I worry that they're not very good but definitely nutritious! That's it :)