I witnessed something very disturbing and sad today.  I saw 2 animal control trucks pull up across the street.  My neighbor, who I have never met until today, was out in the front while the dog catchers backed down the driveway to take her 2 black labs away.  I noticed her crying and in her front yard stressing out.  My dogs in the front started barking, and I went outside to shush them, and I heard her dogs screaming in her back yard.  It sounded like something terrible was happening to them.  It was pretty unbearable.  I saw her face as her dogs were screaming and it tore me up.  So even though I looked terrible, (been laying around trying to recover from being sick...well I still am but taking medicine) I got me and Noah halfway presentable and went over and comforted my neighbor as the animal control people were about to leave with her dogs.  I guess this was goodbye and she'll never see them again.  I'm sure you are wondering why in the world they would take her dogs....

Well, I'm not quite clear because she was crying and could hardly talk but she said that she is moving into an apartment, and it's all her fault, the dogs aren't socialized, and one of them became vicious.  She said that family that lived in a condemned house next to her, their kids would tease her dogs.  She had the dogs for 6 years.  I could see she was in terrible agony.  One of them bit its tongue during the capture.  Apparently the dogs are going to get rehabilitated and they won't destroy them.  I don't know if they bit anyone, but like I said, she could barely talk, and I just told her I was so sorry and gave her a hug. 

Her heart is in a million pieces right now, and anyone that has pets knows that they are part of your family.  I'm pretty sure there are things I don't know, but I can tell you that that lady loves her dogs.  I just hope I was able to offer some kind of comfort, in a terrible time in her life.  Too bad that is how we met, but I am sort of shy and keep to myself.  I had to know what was happening to those poor dogs, and I wanted to offer a hug to this lady I've never met, because boy did she need one.