What happened to the dog?

This is the ques a friend of mine asked me via email. For those of you who, like my friend, couldn't get thru on the site to lv a comment -- i've been wondering why i haven't been getting any comments @ ALL!-- i wanted to let you know what happened. I've been so busy w/ job search & trying to set up interviews &, let's face it, a million & one things that crop up during the course of a life, that when i called the ASPCA on tues to find out how the dog was doing, i was just overwhelmed w/ just this-- i don't think guilt-- regret the whole day. The long & short of it is the person i spoke w/ said they did get a call fr the area but never came to pick the dog up.

I went back to the check cashing place yest to find out what happened to the dog since these people never even showed up to get it! The young lady i spoke w/ said that the dog disappeared & that her co-worker then saw the dog in the garbage can in front out on the sidewalk.

To say i'm so overwhelming disappointed in the ASPCA is a complete understatement. I spoke w/ the same person this morning-- a very nice person who expressed his sympathies when i told him the ultimate fate of that puppy-- & @ this point i was trying not to break down crying. He explained that they can't always pick up all the animals that they get a call for in the course of a day. That they're a small org trying to service a wide area. That more often than not they do go & get the animal, & he recounted the # of animals that they did pick up that day.

It's cold comfort tho that this puppy wasn't one of them & so ended up dead. It says something so bad about the brutality of, i know not all but, some people. When i called on tues & was told the dog wasn't picked up, i asked "what happens when you guys don't go get them." He said well the police could have gone & gotten it. Well, i won't go into my views on the awful NYPD-- just about the last people anyone would want to call in an Emergency (which would make them happy, since they really could care less about what happens to the innocent).

But i blame myself too for not staying w/ that dog. I just never thought it would all end like this.