+Pet Shop Puppy+
I'm a little puppy, so cuddly, so sweet, and I live inside a cage you see at the pet store in the
mall.
I'm not an only puppy, my sisters are all here,
My brothers, too, except for Ralph who died cause he was scared.
It's lonley here at nighttime when all the lights go dark.
We tremble in our cages and we whimper and we bark.
But no one comes to hold us or pet our fears away,
We sit all night in terror till the store opens next day.
We don't remember mama, left so far behind,
She did the best she could for us until Man said "It's time."
He crammed us all in cages too small for us to see,
We rode for hours; we could not help but lay in poop and pee.
And now we sit in a pet store where kids come taunt and squeeze,
They do not hear our whimpers or understand our pleas.
We're miserable and it's scary here we all would rather die,
But since we don't we do our best to run away and hide.
I know you think my story too sad to leave me be,
You want to take me home with you, a happy little puppy.
But please, though its fearful to live here against our will,
If you take me that leaves a spot another pup will fill.
You can stop our suffering but not by taking us home,
You must be strong and leave us here, unsold and all alone.
For if you do not take me, then another pup won't come,
And maybe he will not be shipped so far away from home.
Though some of us may not survive the cycle 'ere it falls,
If we don't sell they will not need more puppies in these hall.
And if they need no puppies then the Man will not bring more,
Eventually it all can stop, you can close the door.
So when you see a puppy face so sad and sweet and small,
In a cage at a pet store at your neighborhood shopping mall.
The best thing you can do for him is leave him sitting there,
That is the best way you can tell all dogs how much you care.
~Author Unknown
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The following dogs and their short stories are just an example of the misery a dog suffers at the hands
of puppy mill proprietors. Let's do our part on getting puppy mill breeders out of business!
"The suggestion that animals should pay for their freedom with their
lives is moral nonsense." ~David Cowles-Hamar
