[please read if you have the time, i'd really appreciate it.]
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Dear Owner,
Why'd you do it?
Did I Not love you enough? I tried my best, but it looks like my best wasn't enough. But I don't understand.
I cuddled, rubbed up against you when you cried, helped you through tough times, and now all you do is hurt me. I've been locked in this cage for days, and you haven't come home yet; im starting to worry. Please come home. It smells real bad here and I just want out, im really hungry and very thirsty. I haven't eaten or drank in months. Please just let me out of here. I'll try my best to love you more. Sometimes I'd pee on the carpet, or chew up the couch, but you'd always forgive me then. But now, it seemed it was too much. You started kicking me and hitting me and you just let me starve and grow dehydrated, and it hurt. Real bad. But I forgave you for what you'd done, as I know you still loved me. Or really did you? Im not sure. The cage is cramped, like it was for a small kitten, and my back hurts and it hurts real bad to be in there. I don't even have a blanket to sit on. It even hurts to sit, it's real hard, like wood but it's metal of some sorts. I'd secretly pray for you to come and let me out. I'd secretly promise that if you did, I'd never ever do anything bad again. I'd leave you when you wanted to be alone, and I'd comfort you when you wanted some company. I'd wipe your tears with my cheek as I rubbed my face against yours. I'd never do anything bad. Never. When you left, you left the doors locked... like you wanted me to stay here. But that couldn't be the case. A few months later of hurting real bad, scrapes and bruises and scars and marks from my back being pressed against the cage- These people came. Quite a few of them. 3 women and 2 men! They were all real nice looking, but they took me out of my cage. I was trying to refuse, but from waiting there for you for so long, I just didn't have the strength. I was relieved, but still upset and hurt to see that none of them were you. They rushed me into a larger cage, gasping at the sight of my pain, and I was carried into the truck. Someone did something to me with a pointy thing, called a needle. I was confused and didn't know where I was when I awoke in a white room with people surrounding me. I had people trying to stick me with more needles, rushing around like this was a complete emergency, and after one finally got me with a needle I felt sleepy. I eventually fell into a deep sleep and when I awoke a second time I was in a cage, high up and confused, people still bustling around. I found water and food but I was too depressed to eat.
I was still hurting real bad for the next few months, but a few of my scrapes had healed.
I was still worried for you. I was always worried for you. Always, never had I stopped thinking about you. And how the cage and the dark room I was locked in smelt real bad. And how I was overly dehydrated and starving.
My dream at that moment was for you to come back. It still is, but added on;
I forgave you. But why can't you forgive me?
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Lots of dogs and other animals (this story is about dogs though) are abused every day. Not only physically, but mentally. They wonder what they did wrong, when they really did nothing. They may- actually probably don't- seem happy on the outside, but on the inside, their hurt. Bad.
Please, stop animal abuse. If they did nothing wrong, but only loved you to their fullest, why would you hurt them? It doesn't make any sense. If you have a heart, don't do it. Being mad or upset with your animal for peeing somewhere they shouldn't have or just doing something they weren't supposed to doesn't mean you hurt them. You could scold them, but I truthfully wouldn't. I'd carefully talk to them, and over time they'd learn. Hurting them doesn't help them learn anything.
Thousands of dogs are dying everyday.
Of abuse, bruises, scrapes, scars, and a broken heart.