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The puppy needed to be rescued. I mean look at it. The poor thing is scared of it’s own shadow. So skinny and malnourished. It’s being so harshly abused, no care, no attention. The puppy needed to be extradited from its ownership and put into a nice happy and healthy home.
I’ve tried to turn a blind eye to the situation. Truly I’ve tried, but each time I see the biting flash from a glare or the clenched teeth around a smile, I see that poor puppy’s sad little eyes. Puppy has a good poker face, but his eyes are filled with all the expressions he hides away.
And his owner doesn’t even care. I know he can read his poor little pooch. He knows when his jab lands, or when he needs to dig in harder. It’ s the only way you get far in politics. So I know that he isn’t being careless. All of those bites are meant to hurt the poor little puppy.
Gosh, if the puppy needed training that was one thing, but that puppy was being so loyal and so helpful. It was being a much better puppy than most pets I’ve seen. It can sit and stay very nicely and will even fetch and do little tricks. Whenever I have a pet it takes me time to get them as nicely trained as this puppy is. And even when everything is explained to them and the rules are well known and the punishments are swift, my old pets would still shit the bed.
But this little puppy is so careful to follow the rules, and goes above and beyond what is expected of him, he deserves some praise! And yet, all I have seen his owner do is berate and harm this cute little puppy! What’s worse is I’m not even sure the puppy realizes that he deserves praise. The puppy has been treated this way for so long that he doesn’t realize that the relationship needs to change. But he needs to see that owners could be just as loyal and helpful in turn. He needs to see that soft part of their love.
The owner was said to be getting a new pet soon anyway. Whether he would view that pet as a human or another dog to deal with was yet to be seen. Arranged marriages were so difficult that way. I’m hoping he gets a tiger, one that will bite his arm off when hungry or snarl at him if he pulls its tail. But with his family he’ll probably get a lamb. He’ll feed it and care for it, and put it in a pasture with its friends, but I have a feeling he won’t have fun with it, not the way he does with his puppy.
I wonder if the lamb will even care? Might have other more important lamb business to attend to. Might think it was better that the owner has a puppy. A puppy is better than a cat. The lamb might even like having the puppy around. Dogs are very protective of their family, no matter what it’s made up of.
But the puppy will care. The poor puppy will sit at the door every night and mourn that his owner is with a lamb. But such a smart, well-behaved, and loyal puppy will simply wait for the night to be over, will guide the lamb around and hope like hell he gets some praise for his pain.
But with such bad ownership…. Tsk tsk. I just can’t leave it alone. Puppies need discipline, to be sure, and some puppies like to have a collar on, but you don’t just leave the puppy behind a door like that. You don’t let your puppy get hurt. You don’t let your puppy go hungry. This was an unfit owner, and the puppy will need to be confiscated.
But how to do it… To take away this puppy would be a difficult thing. It was hard to prove the abuse was happening, the puppy itself would never speak out about it. And it would be hard to remove the puppy from the owner. The puppy was a very loyal puppy. It had gotten used to the treatment and wasn’t even thinking about how to leave the house anymore. The puppy would probably think that life would get even worse if he left his owner.
And the owner himself was an issue. The owner had a lot of money, and his power in the government sub-committees would be a difficult hurdle to overcome….
Frustrating.
But, if anyone could do it. It would be myself.