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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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, F

@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