10/13/2023
A rescuer friend shared this and it make me break down and cry. Most rescuers get exposed to so much cruelty to animals everyday. We suppress our anger, our broken hearts because we can't give up and have to keep going for the ones under our care.
But poems like this hit us hard and all those suppressed emotions surface and bubble up in tears and making us feel heartbroken. Some days I am embarrassed to belong to human species because of our inhumanity and what we do to other species or even our own.
Please don't abandon your pets in parks, woods or side of the road thinking someone else will come along and rescue them or that they will somehow manage on their own. They will sit there and die waiting for you or get hit by a vehicle or someone may torture them or they will get attacked by other animals.
One of my professor who was my advisor for the animal rescue organization I founded in College told me that humans don't deserve animals. And animals should be put down by their owner when they don't want to take care of them because the pets don't deserve the suffering we put on them including broken hearts.
I was appalled. I have come to the point where I have started to get what he meant.
Shelters and full. Rescues are full. More and more people are dumping their pets. I don't understand how you can give up someone who loves you so much. -
"Woof!" I said as you started the car,
"Hooray!" I said, it's my first time afar.
The scents we were passing were all new to me,
For it was my first introduction to this mystery.
As we got out of the car I embraced you with joy,
After all you remembered to bring my favourite toy!
You threw it once or twice, of which I retrieved,
But on the third it seemed you were ready to leave.
You threw it long and hard and I chased it like lightning,
But when I turned to bring it back I saw a sight quite frightening.
I gripped my toy hard as I tried to comprehend
What it was I did wrong to make our relationship end.
You walked back to your car as I sat there still loyal.
Why am I subservient and you so royal?
Your engine started, and you peeled out into the night,
You didn't even care about my overwhelming fright.
As I sat in my pose determined you would come back,
The sun faded behind me while the surroundings turned black.
Day after day I stayed in that park,
Lying... waiting... too feeble to bark.
As I lay there dying thinking of you master,
I asked myself how I got into this horrifying disaster.
With my last breath of life, I whispered your name
Then I collapsed in a heap overrun by pain.
Why didn't you love me master? Why didn't you care?
Had I no significance, was I just a clump of hair?
I stayed there master and I waited for you
I guess taking care of me was just too much to do.
I'm gone now master, no more You-and-I
But what I can't figure out is why you didn't even say goodbye...
-Author: Andrew Siegele-
DONT ABANDON YOUR PETS. You are their lives !