“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

I want to share a story, of what happened this afternoon to me.

My brothers and I were coloring in the kitchen, and then we heard the mail truck. I asked my brothers if they wanted to go check the mail with Sissy, so of course they ran to get their shoes. I open the garage, and my brothers run off as fast as they can. As I'm mid-yell, Vincent (6) trips, and Tony (4) lands on top of him. Vincent just, starts SCREAMING, because he had scraped his chin on the sidewalk.
Naturally, I'm frustrated that my brothers didn't listen to me, but I felt bad Vince had gotten hurt. The 3 of us went back inside, and I cleaned up Vince's face.

After that, I decided to go back out and check the mail by myself. I had left the garage door open (since I was only gone for less than 5 minutes, and our neighborhood is generally a safe one).

I walk out, and I instantly hear shouting.
There is a man with 3 dogs, and he's yelling obscenities at his three dogs. His three dogs had gotten super excited when they saw this ladies dog, and they ran and got all excited and the 4 dogs all got tangled up. The lady who owned the dog that the other 3 had ran to was calm, and just trying to get her little dog untangled.

This man though, he was yelling "GET THE F*** OFF OF HER", "YOU LITTLE F***** GET OFF".

The lady finally untangled her dog, and she hurriedly picks up her dog, and starts walking away fast, because after that the man didn't stop yelling. He continued to yell these phrases at these dogs, and well, I really don't want to go into detail, but he basically started beating his dogs right there in the street.

This whole time, I'm standing in my garage in shock. I wasn't able to move, and was horrified about what I was watching take place in front of my house. I felt sick to my stomach, and once the man started beating his dogs I ran inside, shut the garage, and called 911.

Now I've never called 911 before, but they were very kind and calm. I told them where I lived, gave them a run down on what had happened, and described what the man was wearing and which way I thought he had gone.

Even typing all this up, I'm shaking, and feel sick.

I called my Mom, and she talked to me on her drive home. She told me that there were a couple of police officers, looking for this man, driving around our neighborhood.

As much as I am sickened and, honestly traumatized by what I saw and heard, the situation could've been a lot worse for me. It was a blessing that Vince had fallen down and gotten hurt, or else the 3 of us would've been out there as this happened. I don't know what the dogs, or my brothers, would've done had they seen what I had seen happen.

I'm grateful that we were protected, but I am still angry by what I saw.

The thing is, these dogs were bigger than Chihuahuas, but not as big as a miniature schnauzer. I have two 5 month old Rottie/German Shepard mixes, and these 3 dogs MIGHT HAVE been as big as them. Those dogs weren't attacking the little dog, or their owner.

The man had such bad rage, and just. I hate to think about it.

I have a feeling, though, this isn't the first time this man has done this to those dogs.
I don't know if the police ever found the man, but I will pray for the safety of those animals, and any other creature he may own.

I am so thankful that Heavenly Father kept my brothers and I safe, and that I was able to act fast after seeing the man beat his dogs.

It makes me think of how angry and upset I get, when I see those Sarah McLaughlin commercials. Oh, you know the one. "In the arms of an angel..."
Yeah.

NOPE.

Animal abuse is real. If you ever see any creature being abused, please contact emergency services. Any creature that God has created is precious, and are here to be loved. Not to be used as a punching or kicking bag.

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?” 

 Be kind to others. That doesn't only apply to human beings.


Thank you for reading this. I know this is a more serious matter than what I usually blog about, but I feel it's important to bring awareness to the real issues in the world as well.