Beyond Pissed Off

When I first came across these photos, I honestly thought I was looking at a dead dog.  Yeah, the photos are hard to look at, but please do it, because everyone needs to know what happens out there.  We are very good at looking away and turning a blind eye.  When we see these images, we pretend it is a rare and isolated thing.  But what happened to this dog, Patrick, is not rare and isolated.

Sadly, this happens all of the time.

Its just that 99.999% of the time, you won't see it.  

The only thing unique about this case is that Patrick, unlike most of the others that make it to this state, survived... 

HOW????  Looking at these photos, I have no idea how this dog survived.  Truth be told, he shouldn't have survived being so starved, death should have won this round.  Even more remarkable, he also survived being literally tossed away like garbage, presumably when the person responsible assumed he was dead.  They packed Patrick up in a garbage bag, threw him into the garbage chute where he fell up to 22 stories into a bin.  Thankfully, when a maintenance worker noticed the bag move before being loaded for the compacter, Patrick was found and rescued.  

He's not out of the woods yet.  You can get all of the updates, more on the story and donate through his facebook page, aptly named The Patrick Miracle.  Miracle indeed.  

What pisses me off about this story is that Patrick didn't do this to himself.  Someone did this to him.  I'll use the term "human" lightly, but some scum sucking, low life fucker did this to him.  God, I'm at a loss about what I'd like to see happen to the person(s) responsible.  Part of me hopes that they are found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but I have such little faith in animal cruelty laws that I doubt it would be an appropriate punishment for what they have done.  Part of me hopes that someone out there who is as angry about what happened finds them and lets their anger fly.  But I'm not going to wish violence on someone, so let me just say that I hope that karma takes good fucking care of you and that this time she truly is a bitch as they say.  A snarky, angry bitch with something to prove.  

Patrick, little buddy, get better.  Its going to be a long road but we are all pulling for you.  To the others out there suffering the same fate and worse, I'm so sorry.  To the people helping Patrick, thank you.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

To see more on Patrick, join his facebook page.  Please remember that he is NOT an isolated case, that he is not the only dog out there suffering like this right now.  He is a poster boy, and we need to support him and those who help him.  He is here to teach us that there is something really wrong out there and that globally we have an epidemic on our hands.  This treatment towards our animal friends must stop.