This Dog Deserves a Better Life

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This Dog Deserves a Better Life By Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee Sitting on a hill lush ... green In the same position several days at a time Never making a sound ... watching life go by Day by day a couple walked by On their daily walk They noticed the white dog on the hill The dog never barked at them The couple often spoke of what a good dog Wondered if he would bite This went on through the hot, summer days The days began to get cold Nights ... freezing The couple wondered why the dog Would be in the same spot When they walked by One day without quite knowing why The woman told her husband to walk with her To take a look up on the hill What she saw broke her Heart The white dog lay tangled in stumps Chain around his neck ... hung around the trees She walked to the dog Talking softly all the while Never thinking if he would bite her She led the dog around the trees Around the stumps to his dog house The white dog gratefully ran inside That day was when the couple Became guardian angels They would watch over this dog Each morning ... throughout each day Every night they would come To watch over this precious dog They fed him breakfast each morning Coming back to make sure he wasn't tangled Numerous times a day Each evening they brought him supper After dark they drove to shine a light To make sure the white dog was safely in his house They grew to love this sweet dog The white dog loved them A bond grew between all three Guardian angels here on earth Protecting an innocent life Through each day ... night No one knows that some guardian angels Cry many tears over what humans do Abusing, mistreating innocent people, animals The woman guardian angel woke up Crying at nights saying prayers for the white dog She hurried each morning to go to him One day the owner happened to show up She asked him for the white dog No, he said ... he guards my property She looked the man in his face Gently told him that his dog deserved a better life The man smiled never saying a word A snow and ice storm made things worst The owner never came for a whole week The roads stayed icy, impassable All the while the guardian angels Took care of the white dog Walking to him numerous times a day Carrying food ... water in jugs ... fresh bucket Several times they found the white dog Unable to move ... his heavy chain frozen to the ground The heavy chain tangled on stumps Around trees ... the white dog couldn't move Trapped out in the weather unable to go in its house The woman guardian angel went to him All the while talking softly to him Tears flowing down her cheeks I'm so sorry precious one I've got to get you away from here Poor baby, you're so cold The white dog would get up Walking as she guided him Around the stumps, trees When free he would run to his old dog house Trying to get warm as his body shook The blankets she'd brought him weren't enough The man brought a thick, quilted, waterproof cover They put it over the old dog house They put a bag of shavings inside for warmth One day after the snow ... ice storm The owner showed up ... he walked to them Saying he had a proposition to make Either they could have the white dog Or they could find him a home Finally the day came they could rescue this white dog The woman began to panic They had no extra money to get the white dog A fence ... extra food ... they already had two dogs She meant to rescue the white dog no matter what The white dog had to stay that night There wasn't a safe space to carry him to The woman began to ask her friends on Facebook To please help her help the white dog By the next day ... a miracle happened She had the money to go purchase a kennel A new doghouse .... food, heavy-duty tarp They hurried to go get the white dog The woman unhooked the chain from a tree She led the white dog to her truck ... chain and all They brought the white dog to his new home Took the heavy chain off his neck Gave him a big chew bone, fresh food ... water The white dog didn't know how to act Days went by until a routine was established Breakfast each morning ... playing during the day Supper in the evenings The woman had a roll of canvas She had an idea to make the kennel weatherproof Her husband helped her carry it to the kennel She began to unwrap canvas, cut it to fit The kennel ... making it windproof They put a heavy-duty tarp over the top Now the white dog lived in a cloth house The thick, quilted windproof/weatherproof cover Covered the white dog's new house Inside the house was thick ... soft, cedar shavings Shavings spilled out onto the floor making it soft A good place to lay on in the sunshine Duke came to live with us on January 17, 2017 He is a beautiful, loving white Pit Bull He has known love before he lived in Hell He knows what a leash is when put on He automatically walks to the door of his kennel I walk him around inside tell him to sit ... he does Skip and I have been guardian angels To this precious dog Rescued him from the bad life he was in The man who used to own Duke Must have heard my low, soft voice When I said to him ... this dog deserves a better life Note by this Author: I wrote this to remember how Duke came to live with us. There was a connection behind him ... Skip and I. Thank God ... we can look back ... see when his life would have come to an end during the bad ice storm we had in January 2017. No one would have come to him for a whole week if we hadn't known what was going on. We made the difference in a precious dog's life. This is my second rescue dog ... both live with us today. We have three dogs ... Kissy, our Rottie ... Camie, our Australian Blue Heeler mixed (I rescued her) ... and now, Duke ... our Pit Bull. We wish to have him live inside with us and Kissy and Camie. We don't like for our dogs to live outside and haven't ever let one do so. For now ... we can't put Duke, Kissy and Camie together as a bad fight could happen. As time goes by ... it may take a lot of time ... we will work toward helping all three make friends. Photo/story poem owned/written by Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee.