Originally Posted by TeresaE
(Post 2296469)
I am a big black dog. Born this way, without any control of my most unfortunate circumstance. Discarded at a tender age, barely off my mother’s teat, along with my litter mates. Thought of as no more than garbage. Were it not for the sympathy and kindness of a stranger, I most certainly would not be here today.
I have endeavored since that fateful day of my rescue to live the most righteous life a dog can live. Seeking not to disturb and to obey without question the commands of my humans.
To that end, I most carefully place my pile as my humans say, on a common area swath of grass. And they, in return, most courteously remove my pile. I must then traverse through the numerous remanence of tiny poops left by the privileged, purebred dogs that have never know a day of cold, hunger and fear.
That I must say Hath
not a large dog eyes? hath not a large dog paw, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a small dog is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if a little dog poops does it not still stink, polite and breed flies as mine does?
Therefore I say, do not condemn me with your prejudices. Rather open your eyes to the beauty of my character. After all, All Creatures Great and Small. God Loves them, One and All.
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