Published on 09 April 2007 at 02:43 pm
Filed in Expat Life In Nicosia Cyprus
This is an open letter to the irresponsible, cruel and incredibly ignorant people who watched me go out for a walk yesterday evening, who waited until I was out of sight and who them dumped a box full of wriggly little gorgeous puppies behind my house…one of which was dying, the rest of which were too young to be separated from their mother.
You were seen by the way - my neighbour watched you but wasn’t sure what you were up to – so, you think because I own a dog and am responsible for it that I’ll take on your unwanted dogs and look after them do you? How very clever of you to come up with that conclusion…but what you actually did was just give someone else the problem of getting rid of them - and now I have the guilt associated with giving them to KAR and KAR have the job of re-homing them or destroying them. Thank you so very much…it’s fair to say I hate you.
When I got near home last night my dog and my friend’s dog ran away and I couldn’t understand why…when I caught up with them they were protectively guarding your dumped and unwanted litter…one of whom as mentioned was so sick and very obviously dying. Well, just think about this for a minute, what if my dog wasn’t up to date with his injections? You could have given him a disease that would have killed him too.
But no, luckily for you I’m not useless when it comes to caring for other things. My dog has been injected, he has been castrated, he is kept in and not allowed to wander the streets, he never needs to be chained up because he has been taught to be obedient and when I walk him he wears a muzzle so that he won’t scare local children who are taught to fear dogs - and so he won’t eat the poison that is left all over the place to kill dogs.
I took your unwanted puppies in – what was I supposed to do? Leave them out there in the storm that was brewing to die? Step over them every night and morning when I take my dog for a walk and watch them starve to death slowly and then eventually kick dust over their lifeless bodies? Is that what you would do if someone dumped dogs at your back door?
The little boy puppy you dumped was my husband’s responsibility, he had to do what you were too cowardly to do and what I couldn’t face coping with. The puppy died in his arms and he buried his body deep in the earth so that no scavenger could dig it up and then we both cried – what a shame you were too gutless to do the same or even to take it to the vets when you noticed it was sick.
The little girls survived the night and got fat on meat and milk, they slept wrapped in an old shawl and hopefully they felt secure rather than afraid and lonely, away from their mother for the first time and in a stranger’s home.
The fact that you are so irresponsible to let your dog get pregnant in the first place, to then not have her puppies aborted or destroyed is one thing…the fact that you are so weak and stupid to then stick them in a cardboard box and dump them quickly before making a hasty retreat is quite something else. I didn’t take these puppies in for good – why? Because one thing I’ve learned living in North Cyprus is that next month there’ll be another lot…thank God Kyrenia Animal Rescue are there to pick up the pieces. I just hope you’re ashamed enough to put your hand in your wallet next time they are on the streets collecting to pay for vets bills and food for dogs that you dump.
