I
thought long and hard about doing this page as it is not an easy
page to view. It tells the stories of lives lost and lives
without a chance. This page is not here for its shock
value, it is here because every dog on this page deserves to be
remembered. There are no bad dogs on this page, they were
just dogs who didn't have enough good people to save them.
They. Just. Ran. Out. Of. Time. They did not ask to be
born into a world where they were not wanted, in a world already
vastly overcrowded with too many dogs and not enough
homes. This page is in honor of all the Rags, and the
Riches, and the Charlottes, and the Murphys, and all the dogs
across our nation who die in shelters every day, because no one
wants them. There are not enough homes, there are not
enough people to take them in. As I watch my own dogs,
adopted from this very shelter, run across a field with the
total abandon only a dog can know and embrace, I realize that
had I been a week, a day, an hour too late, they too could have
been on this page. For the fact that they are not, my
heart rejoices, for the fact that so many are, my heart
breaks. For all the shelter workers across America, I am
certain that if they could wish only one thing, and could they
be empowered to do so, it would be to "turn back the hands
of time". For all the dogs, in all the shelters
across America, who just ran out of time, this page is for
you.
You are not forgotten.