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.