“my neighbors kids want to pet them.”
I’m not even close to being an expert, but that seems like a bad idea — not just for you, but for the puppies. If it’s true that animal-human contact could have been involved in starting this — I don’t know — I’d be wary.
I doubt that animal to human contact actually started this, but all it takes is for someone with virus on their hands to have pet a puppy before someone else pets it, I’d think.
Meanwhile, this amazes me. We have shrunk to something so much less than citizens. NYC is handing out three free meals a day for anyone coming to pick up the day’s meals at the alloted time, at any of 435 locations in the City. No questions asked: