Definition: Given a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation, generate a suitable title that describes the main event/root cause of the situation. Imagine that the given text is a social media post, and you have to write the title of the post, so the users can decide to read the main text or not.
Input: (posting this for my brother who doesn't have a Reddit account) Long story short, my mother gifted me some soft socks with different fun prints for Christmas this last year. My dog, who has a scrapped up paw pad has been crying and obsessively licking it on and off for the past month. The vet recommended that we try and tape a sock to her paw to prevent her from continuing to interfere with the hearing process. The softest sock I could find was one of the ones she had gifted me. When my dog chewed through the sock to remove it so that she could again obsessively lick the wound. My mother became standoffish and said "you could have used any sock" that she got them because she thought "they would be fun". I like the socks although I do not often have an occasion to wear them, and I didn't select these socks because they were a gift but she still seems upset about it regardless. Am I The Asshole?

using my gifted socks to help. my dog