MY NAME WAS PEN. I DIED HAPPY, BUT...🥺🥺
I died today!! I hope you will dedicate 5 minutes to read my story so that it is not in vain.
I arrived at the shelter when I was 3 months old and they called me Stylo (at least I had a name, however strange it was for a dog!). It was a "normal" (and therefore overloaded) shelter in the center-north of Italy, and there I waited for someone to see me...
I waited, waited, waited... I waited 13 long years!!! Of course, I wasn't alone in the box and my fellow prisoners weren't gentle: I was often bitten and more than once, I almost died because they wouldn't let me eat, but I resisted..
And then finally, an angel named Monica noticed me! She decided to get me out of there and give me a few months of happiness. She entrusted me to her friends Sandra and Silvana who took care of me!
I was skinny and all twisted with osteoarthritis... I remember that when I arrived at their house, it was winter and they had prepared a soft bed for me in front of the wood stove... I didn't know what a home was and that warmth, oh my, what happiness! I spent 2 days with my back glued to the warmth, it was paradise for me!!
Despite all the predictions that I would die quickly, I recovered. Yes, no one would have believed that I would live for almost 3 more years! And during these 3 years, I was loved and pampered, I had good food, I slept warmly... but old age cannot stop!!
Now I am dead, but I died HAPPY, because someone gave me hope and a few years of happiness, but I can't help but think that if Monica had not saved me, there would be nothing left of me now, not a photo, not a memory, no one would mourn my death! And this is unfortunately the fate that affects so many dogs who spend their entire lives in a shelter, in general indifference.
So before you give birth to new dogs, think of me!
And before you buy a dog, think of me!! A single day of happiness can redeem a lifetime of suffering, so if you can, get an old dog out of a shelter!💔
Be positive to someone today, even if it's difficult!
Choose to give & not take to love & not hate! We are all Gods family so let's lift each other up & stop tearing each other apart!
God loves us all!!
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