You know those shows on Animal Planet about animal cruelty? Those cops, capturing the bad dog owners or horse owners, ect. It's sad to see dogs skin and bones and their living conditions. I thought I would never see something like this real life...

Maybe four nights ago, my dad couldn't sleep because of a dog crying all day. He sleeps during the day because he goes to work in the night and comes home at 6:30 AM. Well, yesterday he decided to check up on this dog which lived at this house right behind us. It was early in the morning and when he got there, he had to hit the fence just for this poor creature to notice him. My dad couldn't believe what he seen. I could remember this dog when it was a puppy. It had ran through our fence, breaking through, and started chasing my dog. My dog is a scarty cat, but that pup was a pitbull pup, strung all ready. My adrellein kicked in and I started running towards him. Poor pup ran back to his very own yard. He didn't know better. His owners seem to never pay any attention to him and he stayed outside most of the time.

Well, the dog poked his head up from this small dug out, something maybe the dog dugged for a small bed. He was literally a skeliten... and chained... with no food and water. My dad wanted to cry, so he called the cops who save animals but the one in Austin. They told my dad something like they couldn't help him because of location, but they gave him the Pflugerville number to call. So the entire time he was trying to call these cops and he was getting tired. He decided to try again tomorrow which was today.

I had checked on the dog and banged on the fence but I didn't see anything. They must have him inside the house I thought.

Today, my dad called them, then took my brother to school. While he was gone, I was still in bed. I hear loud banging noices at the door. I thought, the police, which it was. It was them, but I didn't answer it becuase I was not desent. I did get up and got changed, they were not there. My dad comes home and I look in the back and see him standing right next to a ladder. I wondered so I stepped out. He was waiting for the animal cruelty cop people. I told him that I think they came by, he did see cop cars on the next street, the right street where those bad animal owners lived. He looks at me and tells me, "I think the dog is dead." I got on the ladder and saw probably the head or back of the dog just laying there next to the house.

It was like the tv shows. The yard was terrible. It looked like no one lived at the house any more. The grass was tall at some places, and there was dirt places. Here in Texas it gets up in the 100s.

The cops come, a woman and a man. They couldn't get through their backyard because it was locked and they tried nocking but no one was home. So, as my dad and I watched through the back windows, the cops had to use our ladder to climb over our fence. The lady had a camera and she took pictures of the dog. She came back to the fence to climb back over. before that, she was shaking her head.

It was ironic to see Good Morning America talking about these fancy dog beds while the cops were in our backyard. It was like a scene in a movie. The camera taking both situations.

Now, my dad is depressed becuase of this, I can tell.

I sometimes want to cry. This dog was alive not that long ago. If only we knew sooner.