So this new stray dog has kennel cough

and has cost us money just like the last one (we live near the ASPCA, and people dump their critters here).

She is traumatized and needy, and the ASPCA won't take her until she is fully recovered (meds for a week, then another week of no coughing).

Is it wrong to give her lots of cuddles when as soon as I can I am turning her over? She is already broken-hearted.

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ArminArlert · 22-25, M

That's terribly sad. I don't think it's wrong. She must know you're kind and there to help her, and the people in the ASPCA will be the same.

FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP

@ArminArlert I don't want her to distrust people even more…

Piper · 61-69, F

No, I don't think it is wrong to give the stray dog cuddles, as long as she seems okay with that. She's going to be further "traumatized" anyway, it seems, so experiencing kindness
while she's with you is better than nothing.

Barny52 · 56-60, M

Poor pup, not wrong showing them affection they need to learn to trust again, good of you taking it in, what would of happened to it if you hadn’t ?

FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP

@Barny52 I hate to think of that. We had one dog show up so boney I still don't understand how she could walk. Ate 3 cans of dog food (we keep supplies on-hand because so many dumped dogs). We had another so thin and so old and so cold, we didn't think she would have survived another hungry night in the cold - that one had a happy ending, because we found her owner. So stressful!

Barny52 · 56-60, M

@FlowersNButterflies good for you well done

Roadsterrider · 56-60, M

I am a sucker for a nice dog. I am hoping that in the next two weeks you will decide you can't live without her. Have you got a picture? I think it is in poor taste to ask for pictures, but we are talking about a dog.

FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP

@Roadsterrider Won't happen. If I did that, I would have a dozen critters, more than the three I already adopted - cats who don't like dogs. She is sweet but a complication and she is only about a year old. With our health status, we won't live as long as she needs… even if…

Old sick folk have no business adopting young critters.

FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP

@Roadsterrider I can't remember how to post photos anymore. She is a Blue Heeler.

Roadsterrider · 56-60, M

@FlowersNButterflies I have one that stayed instead of going to the pound. We had an Australian shepperd and a lab mix that had puppies and we gave all the puppies away except for 1, then one of the guys we gave a female pup to couldn't keep her and we took her back for a few weeks and then she was supposed to go to the pound. After keeping her for a week, we just made a spot for her and kept her. She is a cinnamon colored lab mix with the sweetest disposition. I don't have any pictures of her here or I would post one, have to get them from my phone.

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