Microchipping

[jinnyfizz]

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Nobody's Dog, by Trudie Jame

 

Today is the death day of nobody’s dog

Nothing will mark it but a note in the log

I’m faceless and nameless and no tears will fall

For I know in your world I have no worth at all

 

To you, my sweet someone, I’m a friend and a dear

We ran the wind daily and you held me so near

But the gate was left open – I chanced a walk on my own

I’d have cowered in fear if only I’d known

 

I know how you cried on the night that I strayed

I know how you searched, I know how you prayed

But I went to a pound far far from our home

Where I crouched in despair in my kennel alone

 

I know that you phoned for I heard your dear voice

And I hoped you would hear me so I barked myself hoarse

Although I’m a Lab cross with stockings all white

On their form I’m a Staff cross – the description’s not right

 

So they said I’m not here and I sank to my bed

My kennel cough’s worse and I can’t raise my head

The rescue came yesterday but they hadn’t a place

For an un-neutered cross breed with his mucus-streaked face

 

If only you’d come to search for me here

You would have known me at once, you would have sensed I was near

You would have sorted my ills, you would have carried me home

And I promise our God no more would I roam

 

Now my eyes plead for mercy for my seven days are done

And I am waiting with dread for the final vet run

No arms will caress me as they inject me to death

No words will comfort me as I take my last breath

 

When the body man comes, it is fitting I’m found

In a bin bag in the freezer in the depths of the pound

Thrown away like the rubbish - no respect and no shame

Denied even the time to find you again

 

My loyalty and devotion they did cruelly betray

Without microchip or nametag, I am just a dispensable stray

Once waggy-tailed, once proud, beloved and free

Oh Dad look with pain at what mankind’s done to me!

 

[FeeFee]

That's so sad - and unfortunately only too real

 

[JAX]

with tears streaming down my face, Please microchip or tattoe your pets , only on friday did we have a kitten about 4 months max who had been run over and killed brought in , no chip , no collar ,was he some little girl or boys loved kitten ? Breaks my heart ever time this happens

 

[Whippets4eva]

Read this earlier on face book jane, now i'm in floods again

Heartbreaking as you said :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Please microchip your pets, they are sooo precious :wub:

 

[TillynPip]

I'm sobbing also, it's so true and so sad. Tilly and Gracie are chipped and little Milo was done last week. However, am thinking of also having them tattood in their thighs as Tilly's chip has slipped towards her shoulder a bit and I wonder how many strays are scanned but not well enough and their chips aren't picked up. Tattoos are also visual so might deter thieves.