Re: OT - Texas.... and stuff


"Kathleen" wrote
...That dog never got any attention from those people, I heard it outside
whining everytime I was outside.

"BessieBee" wrote
Maybe
they have the volume cranked up to the point they can't hear their
poor dog bark and bark and bark and bark.

Assholes who keep pets and neglect them or haven't got the damned common
sense to provide for them-- when the pets spend their lives in devotion and
giving unconditional love and service-- ought to be arrested. Or worse.
People who abuse animals are complete scumbags.

My mother told a story about walking in Van Cortlandt Park (NYC) one hot,
summer day when she was just a little girl. This would've been 1927 or '28.
Her grandfather-- my great-grandfather-- was walking with her, holding her
hand. She says she remembers vividly that as they rounded a corner, they saw
a poor, old horse harnessed to a cart. There was a big load of something or
other in the cart, and the horse was sagging in his harness, unable to pull
it. The driver was standing up in the front of the cart, bent forward,
beating the horse with a stick and yelling at it. The horse was panting and
obviously exhausted and in pain.

She says she remembers my grandfather (an elderly Irishman, well into his
70's, who'd kept many a horse in his day) going completely rigid, and then
crouching down and telling her: "Now, you stay right here, me darlin'--
don't you move from this spot." With that, he ran toward the man in the
cart, snatching up a fallen piece of tree branch as he went. He leapt into
the cart and proceeded to beat the living *** out of the driver, raining
blows all over his head and shoulders, all the while bellowing at him: "Beat
an old, defenseless animal, will ye? How do *you* like it, you miserable son
of a bitch?"

Onlookers had to pull him off the driver, who was cringing and sobbing. They
urged him to leave before someone called the police. Great grandfather gave
the man a final kick, said: "If I *ever* see the like of that again, son,
I'll cripple ye!" and returned to take my awe-stricken mother by the hand.
She recalls that he bought her ice cream later. Go, great-grandpa; go! The
world needs more people like him.


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