Our almost dog

Last Saturday night at about 10pm Wade heard scratching at our garage door.  He opened it and found this lost little dog.  We brought it in and gave it food and water but it only wanted to drink water.  No food.  As you can see it's very malnourished and starving.  

We kept her all day Sunday and tried not to get attached to her too much.  I told Wells he couldn't touch her and that we needed to find her mommy and daddy.  That she wasn't our dog to keep.  He did pretty well with it.  I was kind of surprised.  

Anyway so today (monday) I took her to the animal shelter to see if the vet could tell me if she was worth adopting if no one claimed her.  Well I didn't know that they don't have a vet at the animal shelter. Duh.  So I made an appointment with the vet and took her in.  He said that she's pretty old and that she has a cancerous lump that we would need to remove.  Then we would need to do several test to see why she's not eating and why she's so skinny.  As he was telling me this all I was thinking was...$$$$$$$$...  The vet told me the bill could get into the several hundreds of dollars range maybe even into a thousand dollars.  And that she's so old that it was probably best to just take her back to the animal shelter.  So that's just what we did.  I kind of had my heart broken today.  I didn't think that I got that attached to her, but I've always had a soft spot for animals.  I think I took it harder than Wells.  Anyway, it's probably a good thing.  Here are some pics of our almost dog.