july 12, 2006...
so my mom calls me this morning while i am still getting ready & tells me she has spotted 3 dogs tied to a railroad track near our house in kind of a ghetto-like area. i leave the house, hair still wet, to see if i can help. when i get there we realize that they are actually tied to a 4th dead dog. all to them are pitbulls, obviously been fought several times, possibly have killed their dead friend, but these animals still seem sweet. one of them had actually gotten itself loose from the others but did not choose to leave. it was a terrible sight. these poor, starving, abused animals chained to a already dead dog & stuck on the railroad tracks...
we called the police b/c we did not know what else to do. they did show up about 30 min later but really did not offer much help. they moved the dogs across the road so that they were no longer in the way of a train but decided they would just leave them there alone until animal control came to get them about 30 min later. this really pissed me off!!! we had taken time out of our morning to help these pitiful dogs - making ourselves quite late for work. is dog fighting not illegal??? are cops not supposed to at least to act like they are investigating??? are these dogs not a threat to the neighborhood people & animals??? i mean they seemed nice to us but animals so severely mistreated could snap at any moment... esp the one who has gotten off the chain! they know that dog fighting & crack smoking is a way of life on that road but do they do anything about it??? not that i have seen...
anyway - after the cops heard what i had to say (which would have been much worse had my mother not been standing there) , i decided that i must get to work. as soon as i open my truck door, the poor creature that has struggled his way out of the chain jumps in & settles himself in my passenger seat!! this precious dog then sticks his tounge out & gives me a look like "please take me home with you". HEARTBREAKING!! but i can't take in this dog. we already have 2 dogs & 4 cats at home. plus i would always be nervous that he may hurt them or us...
i did call the animal control office about an hour later & a very nice girl told me the dogs had been picked up & would probably be put to sleep in a few days. sad thought but still much better than the life they were living.
i could go into much more detail, quote very stupid statements that were made, but this is already long enough...
so i cried all the way to work & my insides still feel shaky this afternoon.
what the hell is wrong with people!!!!
