A selfless woman has opened up a dog hospice in order to cuddle with and spoil abandoned dogs whose days walking on the Earth are close to an end.
As heartbreaking as it sounds, dogs, just like humans, come and go. What’s even sadder is the fact that many of them have no one by their side to comfort them when they pass away.
For that reason, one Good Samaritan decided to open up a hospice where she takes in abandoned dogs that have less than 6 months to live.
During their final days, Nicola Coyle of The Grey Muzzle Canine Hospice takes care of the adopted pooches and spoils them with love and treats they deserve.
Nicola is a retired nurse from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, who’s been taking care of others for her entire life.
Now, two dogs at a time, she provides abandoned animals with a loving home where they get to spend their final moments in the presence of love.
“We’ll only take them in if the vet says they’ve got less than six months to live, so we’re focusing on end of life care. I think the longest I’ve had one is around one year and the shortest was about two weeks,” the selfless woman revealed in an interview with Metro.
“I don’t know when their birthdays are so we make sure we throw all of them a birthday party. If they’re well enough, we take them for a day at the seaside, they get fish and chips on the beach and ice cream.”
As Nicola admitted, she spends around $600 per adopted dog on average. To help pay for the expenses, she is also collecting donations at PayPal.
Every happy story, however, comes to a finish and ends in tears.
“We all get very attached to them, it’s very emotionally intense and we do mourn and grieve for them. We do need to have breaks between them,” the retired nurse admitted.
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