I did not say it was a condition, I said 'part of the deal'. Stephanie Jarvis is very skilled in pretending to respect other peoples boundaries verbally but at the same time keep crossing them with her behavior. She was never going to stop filming the work done to her beloved HMN, Ian knew this. I would say that no, it's not a condition for working there as a volunteer, but if you want to stay there for longer and truly be part of the shittoo experience, you'd have little choice. It's these nuances that are important when it comes to understanding the scheme Stephanie Jarvis is pulling and the damage she is doing with it to the lives of the people that foolishly think they love her.
Again, Armoir did not care much for these dogs, for him they represented the life he lived before. It's nice of you to try and find some nobleness in the way they handled this sad situation, but that alone says more about you than it does about them. Armoir does not care much about the content his cousin "produces" (by lack of a more suitable word) too, so I doubt he asked her to mention it. Stephanie Jarvis knew that there would be questions about the whereabout of the deceased dog if she did not mention it anyway, so she decided to exploit its death to benefit her narrative.