Long Island animal shelter seeks Viagra donations for pit bull with heart condition

A New York animal shelter is seeking donations of Viagra to treat a pit bull with a heart condition. Staff members at the Little Shelter Animal Rescue and Adoption Center in Huntington, on Long Island, say 6-year-old Ingrid needs two of the little blue pills every day or she will risk heart failure. They said a vet suggested it.

The pills cost about $10 apiece, and the shelter has been asking Viagra users to pitch in and donate their unused pills.

Viagra was originally developed as a heart medication but is now used mainly by men to give their sex lives a boost.

One woman donated her husband's stash to the dog because she suspected he was having an affair.

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Photo: Viagra tablets can be seen at a Montpelier, Vt., pharmacy in a 1999 photo. Credit: Toby Talbot / Associated Press