Dear Editor,
Who am I? I was born a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I am not
wanted and was dropped in the driveway of the Humane Society of
Morgan County. I am left there all night without food, water or
litter box. No one knows I’m there except the human who left
me.
I am afraid, alone and confused. It is not my fault if my father
and mother were never neutered or spayed. I have to leave the responsibility
to the humans. In the morning,strangers come and see me, still
scared and alone. I had hope the human who left me would come and
take me home. I’m hungry, thirsty and I don’t know
what these new humans are going to do to me. I cringe in the corner
of my box, terrified.
I am put in a strange cage and given food and water. But now I am really scared because I look around and see dozens of my kind in cages. Some tell me they have been there are long time.
There is a ringing and I hear one of the humans talk into something
she holds up to her ear. She tells the thing that they have received “another one”. She says they don’t know what they are going to do because they have “far too many already”.
She tells the thing that they are “at critical”because
there are never enough supplies or enough help to care for all
of my kind.
Who am I? I am everybody’s responsibility. I am one of the four-footed creatures God gave to humans to care for, to be in charge over, like the earth when God gave that to humans. I don’t think the human that left me knows that the shelter will help them get me spayed or neutered for a low price, even if the human can’t
keep me afterwards.
Who am I? Don’t you see? I am something that very badly
wants to be adopted, to be loved. I have so much love to return
if only one Morgan County human will give me that chance.
Linda Bosley
Volunteer
Humane Society of Morgan County
