Murder is Somehow Less Hard to Bear than the Humane Termination of an Injured Animal
By Dave Lindorff
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There was a clear level of trust that had developed.
So it was with a great deal of sadness that my wife and I pulled our car into the driveway one morning last week and saw her lying in the grass in the back yard. She was down on her belly, head up and legs tucked under, as if resting, but the left hind leg didn’t look in the right position, so we knew something was wrong. Somehow, with two bad legs, she had managed to flop and drag herself from the road, where she’d suffered another hit by a car, to the seeming safety of the back yard, but she could go no further.
When I tried to approach her, she tried futilely to stand and then painfully flopped herself into the edge of the woods, where she lay sprawled on her side.
I knew what had to be done. . . .
source: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/01-4
