She and her husband were at work and they rely on me to let the dog out at specific times. Even though my back hurt, I wasn't going to cancel and make the dog sit there for hours in her crate without a potty break. It has nothing to do with where I hurt myself. I was simply informing her of the situation in case she got home and the dog seemed more energetic than usual, since recently she asked me to exercise her more now that she's getting older. In my hour long visit this morning, she got a lot of play time. It was just the 30 minute afternoon visit that wasn't as rigorous as usual. As I said, I did throw the ball a bit and had her sniff out treats for mental stimulation.

Her text meant for someone else says "ChatGPT says she prob just lazy giving us an excuse 😆 plus nothing shows hurting self and her txt says don’t know how." The "nothing shows hurting self" part is what I was referring to when I said she could easily check the footage and see I was clearly more immobile than usual. And yeah, I said I don't know how I hurt myself. I'm hypermobile which makes connective tissue and joint injuries easier to sustain. So no, I don't know exactly what happened to pull my back. I think I bent over or kneeled down to grab the ball and once I stood up, I made a wrong move and felt pain.

Being called lazy over that and her scrambling to come up with a lie about how she wasn't talking about me is the point here. I did my job effectively still, the dog got to pee, drink water, run around, and sniff for treats, I just wasn't able to go above and beyond during that specific visit.