All of God's creatures have rights, a fact that most people don't seem to recognize.
This includes both human and non-human animals, but not all of them can speak for themselves.
He stood and wagged his tail.
It was 2 o’clock in the morning.
As the cab started moving,
he barked, in anger that I was leaving.
He followed the cab for a few metres,
I saw him stop, turn and walk away.
Perhaps he knew that I would be back,
in about six months to that day.
It was just a few biscuits daily;
I’d given him while I stayed there.
Half-a-year later, he would still remember,
thankfulness expressed in his silent stare.
‘A stray dog after all’, you would say,
‘there are so many around, you know.’
‘Yes, but I think of myself as a stray man,
happy to have a dog in tow.’
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