Dear Editor,
Their loneliness and hidden despair can be seen through the sadness of their eyes. Many times placed on dirty floors. An improvised small house if they are a little lucky. Perhaps interminable hope that somebody can understand their tragedy of undetermined and interminable amount of seconds, hours, days, months, if survived, may last some years supporting the heat in summer or the windy, rainy cold nights. Surviving many times within their own feces until somebody cleans around.
We are living in a world of careless non-sensed acts against animals. Uneducated adults, youngsters, children capable of committing this nonsense act of cruelty that could be punishable! They seem to be unaware of the cruelty committed day by day. Within their narrow mind they think – “Who cares”, they are animals, they don’t have feelings – that’s the way humans with a low sense or no compassion at all think. When those chained dogs were puppies, they were so cute, so innocent, and unaware of the nightmare that they will be victimized and abused for life when falling in the wrong hands.
It is extremely important and necessary to educate kids, teens, lacking of the compassion sense that is transmitted from the family education roots. It’s hard and almost impossible to reach this point in uncaring selfish society that cares only for them. Thinking that that adult dog can take care of the entrance of a house, it’s just an animal, just staying there “who cares”. If their heavy chain hurts if it is corroded and tied, who cares! Just drop some dry food and some water, it will be enough!
Chaining dogs for life could be banned if there were more educated kids to understand their suffering. They have to live like they were the most dangerous delinquents! Dogs are neglected and abused permanently for life. There is an unregistered amount of dogs that nobody cares about, just for the pleasure to have them.
Due to limited human interaction and exercise, they become frustrated and nerved, leading in aggressiveness and frustration, sometime timid. Owners refuse to have them neutered or spayed. There is an over-population in a contrast of human “poor education”.
Sometimes it is impossible to sleep hearing nearby dogs out crying for hours their frustration, totally unable to free themselves! Are we living in such place or time of uneducated society? I can’t understand those levels of cruelty. It seems to be living within a surreal world. There is an urgent need to help the humans committing this criminal act! “Awareness and education urgently needed”.
People can’t imagine how healthy it is to walk their dogs. Families with kids should share this activity, especially if dogs are in a close small cage or space where they can barely move or feel lonely. Please teach kids to improve our environment.
Name withheld at author’s request
