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We brought him to Banfield, but they himself. After he ate, he fell asleep in a

had no time to see us that day. Instead little bed we made for him. We did some
they referred us to a place a town research and determined he was in fact a
over, who was happy to see us the next boy, and we named him Hermes.

morning.
That night, I slept out on the couch with

After a flea check told us he was clear, him while my husband slept in the bedroom
we gave him a gentle dawn soap bath. As with our dogs. But when I awoke the next
he was wrapped up in my arms to dry morning, he was out on the couch with me,

off, he began to drift into sleep. That was snuggling Hermes close to his chest.
until we opened a can of wet food, and

his eyes snapped right open. The little As we drove, Hermes didn’t complain at
KitKat began to eat. And he ate so much! all. In fact it seemed at this point that he
We figured he had been outside this liked car rides. A technician came to my

whole time that he was malnourished, car to collect him and brought him inside.
and monitored him so he didn’t gorge I sat, with mild anxiety, for who knows

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