You Got Tired Of Me And Took Me To The Shelter.They Were Overcrowded And I Drew An Unlucky Number.
I Am In A Black Plastic Bag In A Landfill Now. Some Other Puppy Will Get The Barely Used Leash You Left. My Collar Was Dirty And Too Small, But The Lady Took It Off Before She Sent Me To The Rainbow Bridge.
Would I Still Be At Home If I Hadn't Chewed Your Shoe? I Didn't Know What It Was, But It Was Leather, And It Was On The Floor. I Was Just Playing.You Forgot To Get Puppy Toys.
Would I Still Be At Home If I Had Been Housebroken? Rubbing My Nose In What I Did Only Made Me Ashamed That I Had To Go At All. There Are Books And
Obedience Teachers That Would Have Taught You How To Teach Me To Go To The Door.
Would I Still Be At Home If I Hadn't Brought Fleas Into The House? Without Anti Flea Medicine, I Couldn't Get Them Off Of Me After You Left Me In The Yard For Days.
Would I Still Be At Home If I Hadn't Barked? I Was Only Saying "i'm Scared I'm Lonely, I'm Here! I'm Here!" I Want To Be Your Best Friend.Would I Still Be At Home If I Made You Happy?Hitting Me Didn't Make Me Learn How.
Would I Still Be At Home If You Had Taken The Time To Care For Me And To Teach Manners To Me? You Didn't Pay Attention To Me After The First Week Or So, But I Spent All My Time Waiting For You To Love Me.
I Died Today.
Love, Your Puppy
Katherine
I cry EVERY time I read this.. It is so sad. It makes me think of what happened to my dog Buster, the differince is though that I saved him from an ending like this one, and I gave him the best month and a half of his life.. But then, by law, it came time to get him neutered.. And his life was taken away from me just like that. Because of cancer. He bled too badly, it could not be stopped. If I had not gotten him when I did, he was going to be killed only two days later. If I had not gotten him, he would have never been to the beach, he would have never met Tessa whom he loved dearly. He was only eight years old, although coonhounds only live to about 12. Before I got him he had been a hunter that someone dumped out, probably because he was getting too old to hunt. If I had not gotten Tessa, she would be in a house with five very young childeren, always tugging her ears and pulling her tail. If I had not gotten Skip, chances are he would still be in a kennel in the basement of the rescue center, because he needed training and few were willing to spend that kind of time on him. If I had not gotten Sally, she too would have been put to sleep because the shelter was full, and she had already been there for two months. Sally had major agression problems that were not found until she was in a home, and all others would not have taken the time to train her like I did, so she would have ended up almost with no doubt in a trash bag in a pile of trash at a landfield. From what the shelter could tell she had been a stray her whole life, which was two years.
But, I could never do such a thing as what was mentioned in story.
-~Ketlin
Mistwraith
I know, I cry every time I read it to. It's so sad. I would be so mad at myself, and probably never forgive myself if I did what the people in the story did, it's just so sad!
Black Cloud
I've seen it before but it always makes me so sad to read it.
I've always wanted to get a pet from a shelter but never did because most of the pets I had were fish.
