Hankies out and think about chipping

Nobody's Dog

Today is the death day of nobody’s dog
Nothing will mark it but a note in the log
I'm faceless and nameless and no tears will fall
For I know in your world I have no worth at all

To you, my sweet someone, I'm a friend and a dear
We ran the wind daily and you held me so near
But the gate was left open – I chanced a walk on my own
I’d have cowered in fear if only I’d known

I know how you cried on the night that I strayed
I know how you searched, I know how you prayed
But I went to a pound far far from our home
Where I crouched in despair in my kennel alone

I know that you phoned for I heard your dear voice
And I hoped you would hear me so I barked myself hoarse
Although I’m a Lab cross with stockings all white
On their form I’m a Staff cross – the description’s not right

So they said I’m not here and I sank to my bed
My kennel cough’s worse and I can’t raise my head
The rescue came yesterday but they hadn't a place

For an un-neutered cross breed with his mucus-streaked face

If only you’d come to search for me here
You would have known me at once, you would have sensed I was near
You would have sorted my ills, you would have carried me home
And I promise our God no more would I roam

Now my eyes plead for mercy for my seven days are done
And I am waiting with dread for the final vet run
No arms will caress me as they inject me to death
No words will comfort me as I take my last breath

When the body man comes, it is fitting I’m found
In a bin bag in the freezer in the depths of the pound
Thrown away like the rubbish - no respect and no shame
Denied even the time to find you again

My loyalty and devotion they did cruelly betray
Without microchip or name tag, I am just a dispensable stray
Once waggy-tailed, once proud, beloved and free
Oh Dad look with pain at what mankind’s done to me!

Please get your dog chipped and pass around this reminder because if this saves 1 dog, its been worth it.

I've read that one before, it's so sad, makes me cry   Both my girls are chipped. I did hear of a dog that got lost and put to sleep and then the owner turned up but it was too late. Had the dog been chipped this would have been a happy ending.

thank goodness for chips, definitely get your pooch chipped if they are not already.

That made me cry  

It's mad not to be done unless you just don't care

I got my two done on the second round of puppy Jabs and neither flinched even at that age. And remember to keep the details up to date

mine are both chipped

   The Choc dog is chipped.

Kell wrote:   The Choc dog is chipped.

Why the unhappy face, or is that cos you are upside down in Oz so really smiling  

 

 so sad  

Daisy is chipped, when you get a rescue they do it as standard now I believe.

  That is so sad

Rocky also chipped!