Boston

I'd like to say that I'm speechless but instead I'm full of words that can't form sentences. I can't seem to wrap my head around the extent of cruelty of people. I was reading on Facebook about another starvation case going on in the local area. I'm sick over it. I can't express the anger and saddness that someone would do such a thing to a horse.

But then I look at Savanna and Bo and I can easily see how. The evidence is standing in my pasture and barn. I'm losing my belief in human kind. I say this more so today because of the experience I had to deal with this evening.

I know that it's not horse related but if you can abuse a horse, you can abuse a dog. I was coming home and took a different way than I normally do. It was 5pm and there was something black in the middle of the gravel road. As I puttered up and around the black blob which I thought was a dirt pile or a tire tred, I had the shocking horror that it was a little Boston Terrier.

A little Boston Terrier. In the middle of the road. Dead.

I was in such shock that I went home and sat for a half an hour in shock. I know I should have stopped immediately but I was in total shock to see a dog dead in the middle of the road. I decided that I better go back. How could someone hit a dog and leave him. Or possibly someone dumped this dog and left it for dead. In any case, someone abandoned this dog. I couldn't just leave him in the middle of the road. The entire drive back to the spot, I hoped that someone else would have stepped up and taken the dog. I had hoped that someone else would have seen their dog and taken him home. Instead, he was still there, right where I'd seen him. It absolutely broke my heart.

Even though he was dead, I knew he had to come home and have a proper burial. I called a neighbor to see if he knew anyone with a boston terrier but to no avail. Mike, the loving husband, helped my greiving for this little dog by burying him for me. Unfortunately, a skunk apparently sprayed in the very area that Mike was at. Now our house smells like skunk and I still carry the heavy weight of a dead dog that I never met.

Because I can't face another cruelty, I'll just post pictures of cute little Sir Prize.