11.27.05

Category: dribblings

when i was a kid there was this dog in the neighborhood and the dog was a black and white springer spaniel type dog named, Cookie. (hee, not to be confused with the world famous Cookie Magoo). she was the sweetest, softest, most loving dog in the whole universe. i can’t remember who’s dog it was. this was before all the Leash Laws were enforced, and there were about 6 dogs that roamed the ‘hood at any given time. Cookie was really just a puppy, well, she wasn’t full-grown anyway. and very soon she was pregnant.
but she was so small you see, just a puppy dog.

so one day she was acting weird and she kept going in and out from under the nighbor’s house. i kept calling to her because i loved that stupid dog and i wanted to pet her ‘cos no kidding she was the softest, sweetest dog. eventually she came near me but was acting all strange and then i saw that there was something stuck to her butt. so i thought, “hm, what’s that?” and i went to pull off what i thought was a clump of mud or something from under the house. but it was like, two green stalks…so i thought it was a plant or something. but it was purple too. and then it hit me, it was one of her puppies…the two back legs…i could see the little paws…and it was stuck…and had been stuck for probably hours. and it was green and purple and so very dead.

i remember thinking that i should grab it and pull it out…’cos it was probably not very comfortable for Cookie, and maybe there were other puppies who weren’t dead yet that needed to come out. but i waited too long, because it was so gross, right? and i didn’t really want to touch it because i didn’t want to know what it felt like and i knew that it would be cold. it was bright green and bright purple. cookie eventually ran back under the neighbor’s house.

i have never forgotten that. the greenish purple dead puppy. it’s one of the grossest things i’ve ever seen.

none of her puppies lived and a couple weeks later i think Cookie died…hit by a car, i think.

so if i’ve ever been an asshole to you about getting your pets spayed or neutered…i just want you to know it’s not because i’m some kind of activist or anything. it’s ‘cos i regret not helping out that poor dog with the dead puppy hanging out of it’s birthhole, which PS, no one should have to see that sort of thing.

well, that, and i’m an asshole.

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