starving | The Adventures of Bitey Dog

Hey New Guy, why are you so skinny? Are you sick or something? He's not really that skinny, it's just that next to you everyone seems small.

I actually look much better now. The last family I lived with nearly starved me to death.

What do you mean "last family"? How can you have more than one family? Not all dogs are lucky enough to live their whole lives in one home.

What happened? Well, there were over a hundred of us in this house.....

How is that even possible? Where did you sleep? Did you all pile on the Big Bed?

No, most of us were put in kennels and forgotten. Some were chained outside in the bitter cold to freeze. Inside, our kennels were stacked from the floor to the ceiling. They couldn't reach most of us, so we had to sit in our own waste day after day as we starved.

I was so homesick. I missed my mom and cried and cried until I ran out of tears.

Just when most of us had given up hope, strangers with trucks and vans and cars came. They took our captors away, then started hauling the kennels out. They didn'tknow our names, so they called us by whatever number we were as they pulled us out.

How could someone not like this guy? He's so sweet? I don't like this guy. He's too sweet.

Am I too sweet?

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