I could hurt you but I don't even try. When you beat me I just cower and cry.
What he did to me hurt me, a little girl, less than a year, but you and your friends just laughed and cheered. Now I'm stuck on the end of this chain, trying to protect 10 babies from the cold and the rain. I don't have enouch food to keep myself alive, still I give my babies all I have inside. One by one you come and take them away, until alone again my world goes grey. I try not to bark because it makes you mad but sometimes I just get so hungry and sad! I think if I tell you you'll listen to me, that maybe if I wiggle, kiss and dance, maybe, maybe you'll give me a chance! I want to be a good girl, I really do! I'd do anything, anything just to please you! But here I am, pregnant agian and this time you say "Those babies ain't from him." You put me in the car and take me away, telling your friends "I can't sell no strays!".
Now I sit in this noisy place, watching the people look at me with a grim face. "Pit Bull and she's pregnant to? We'll never find a home for you!" Now they lead me down a hall to a back room, I'm so scared! It smells of death, smells of gloom! Now outside, am I finally free?? There's other dogs waiting that look like me! WAIT! I don't want to go in that box! It's too small and I can smell the rot! No! No! Don't close the lid! We want to live!!We want to live!! Helpless to stop what's about to come, no where to hide, no where to run. I cry and scream along with my friends and this is how my life ends!!
by Naomi (Nomie) Carlson

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