I let my fingers move slowly along his side.
He flinched when I reached his hip.
“Sorry.”
His eyes closed.
Dogs in pain can bite.
They should never be blamed for it.
A frightened animal does not understand that your hands are trying to help. He understands only that something hurts and another living thing is touching it.Find Pet Care
I positioned one arm beneath his chest and the other beneath his hips as carefully as I could.
His entire body tensed.
I stopped.
“It’s okay.”
For one second, I thought he might snap at me.
Instead, the tension disappeared.
Completely.
He surrendered.
I lifted him.
He weighed almost nothing.
The shock of it went through me so quickly I nearly lost my balance.
He was a medium-sized dog, probably meant to weigh somewhere around fifty or sixty pounds, yet holding him felt like carrying a much smaller animal wrapped inside a loose coat.Shop Dog Food
