the way you say that skinny, is it makes it seem like he should find something else because of the dog ? Man i love my dog..but in order to provide for it we need to make $$ so the job may be a bit more of a priority..
but at op ..just take the dog with you dude, i think a dog would understand more that you had to take it to a random environment then to leave it to someone else or else you would never see her again