This is not okay #Christmas #Pets #HumaneSociety #Parenting

Look, I'm not exactly the kind of person to go out and complain about the activist garbage, "oh this race/gender/religion, deserves these rights/equality." or "oh, we need to treat animals this way, stop testing and cruelty."
No, that's not my style. I've lived both sides of the coin, I've seen the world, lived many cultures, it's taken my many years of hard study but I get how the world works with all that, and why.
BUT. There's only so far I go here. So let me tell you a story.

Every morning (or it bloody well feels like it), I get up, take Lunar-Tales to work, come home, work on TiM, EMB, whatever.

Today that schedule was shortly interrupted by a stray puppy.
Now I'm used to strays, we have a few random older stray dogs, and stray cats that like to sleep on/under my car. I usually don't mess with them, and they usually hunt (there's plenty of rats, garbage, and birds around here) and keep themselves pretty well fed so I don't end up worrying about them.
Honestly it was specifically because of that I never really gave it a second thought.

This puppy though, it couldn't have been more than a year or two old.
And it's that stereotypical 'christmas present puppy.' you know the kind, that golden Labrador retriever (or at least a mix of).
The moment I went out the door it ran up to us playful as a child who has way too much sugar in their diet (speaking from experience).
No collar, and it was just Skin and bones. Poor thing looks like it hasn't eaten in at least a day.
Owners are nowhere in sight.
Now I realize there are ways for dogs to escape unintentionally, especially energetic puppies (again speaking from experience).
But no collar, obviously no one was searching for it, and it fits the stereotype. Lets face it, we know stereotypes exist for a reason. So I know full well, some irresponsible parent got their mongrel child a puppy for christmas. And then realized they dodged a bullet of having to take care of it, when the puppy escaped.

This isn't a first time either. Last year our local pounds and animal shelters caught dozens of these cases.

This is not okay.

Half of you can't even live without your bloody iphone, you think as advanced of a species that humans have become you can survive as a hobo? Do you think those chances would have been better if you were actually 5? You know, the age you act.
So how do you expect a puppy to? A species mankind has come to love because they are co-dependent to survive.

After they are open I'm contacting the HumaneSociety. All the pets I've gotten were from there and they try really hard to be sure they go to good homes, not to mention they were the only ones to respond when I mentioned a case of animal cruelty way back when https://twitter.com/Eternal_B_Flame/status/683048386811957248
Yeah, I don't forget that stuff. I forget stupid things, like people's names and birthdays.

I'm gonna contact them later today for advice on this stuff, if I see that puppy again, in that state or worse, I'm gonna be sure it ends up somewhere with food and shelter.

And this goes to all you parents out there, I don't care how much your child wants that puppy, they don't deserve it, they won't take care of it, and they wont learn responsibility for it.
Get them a goldfish, at least that way after they don't feed it for 3 days and it dies you can fry it up and serve it to the brat for dinner. That will be a quick and effective lesson for responsibility.

Actually, this post took me 2 hours to write, so now they are open, I'm gonna give them a call now.

//EDIT: while I'm thinking about it, all the time I see people walking their dogs without a leash, stop that crap. That's another cause to  THIS cap. and I don't need your mangy beast trying to bite my ankle. I don't care how friendly you think it is, I bet you'd keep a pet crocodile on a leash. Dogs are still carnivores.