and, if I remember correctly, only one other dog caught the cough too. Neither were ill, but Ruby's cough hung on for several weeks. Several months later, one of my other dogs started coughing and all five developed kennel cough. Then, a year or so ago (by this time we had six dogs!) - yup - three of them caught kennel cough including our puppy and good old Ruby Springer! Pup only coughed for a day or two then stopped, but Ruby's cough hung on for ages.....vet said not to worry. About a year ago, I was "reunited" with a former boyfriend (oh, that sounds so TEENAGE and we're both in our mid-fifties!!!) and we subsequently married. Ruby was still coughing intermitently at this stage and one of OH's two dogs (yes, we now have eight dogs!) also started coughing, so being a homeopath, he treated both his dogs homeopathically - coughing dog stopped coughing and the other never coughed once. Several months on, and Ruby would still cough occasionally, particularly when she became excited so OH dosed her homeopathically, too and, believe it or not, several months on and she hasn't coughed since! 
