'I Confess …'

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5/15/2008 5:33:57 PM

When I was only a kid I had a beautiful dog named Hannah. She was the most gorgeous, & most playful dog ever. She always looked as if she was smiling & playing with her would make your day. She loved to run & lick you all over the face. When we got kicked out of our apartments, we had to give her to my grandparents. My grandma hated animals, so she really did not care at all about her. My grandpa was raised in a farm so he decided to be responsible for her. They lived in Tijuana, and my family & I lived in San Diego. Everytime I visited my grandparents & Hannah, she smelled bad. She was locked in a chain, her water was black. She had poop all over her space & sometimes she would lay on it & even eat it. Her dog house was discusting & had spiders in it. And everytime i took her a shower, I fed her. I gave her fresh water. I cleaned her cage, & all of the poop around her. I would even clean the backyard because of all the hairs she would shed. My grandparents did nothing. My grandma always shrugged & my grandpa gave the excuse he was busy. Then my dog got sick with epilepsia, & had several attacks a week. He gave her a pill a day, but he shoved it in her throat & I hated watching him doing it. She still lived in horrible conditions, & my parents would only complain but not take action. I regret letting my parents do nothing about the situation. I did ask them many times to take her with us, but they always said no. I was little, but its no excuse. I loved her more than anyone. I can't really explain the love in me for her. She passed away a few months ago after a really hard attack. She choked with her own saliba & her body was paralized. I think about her everyday, & i cry over her. She suffered so much, & what did we do to help her?

5/15/2008 12:47:44 PM

abour a month ago i was angry at my father. we have a diabetic cat and i was fearful he was getting sicker and wanted to take him to the vet.in the middle of the argument he asked me to put the dog on the leash outside.well, instead of putting him on the leash i put him down on the ground without a leash.he is totally blind, and has a herniated disk. well i had a friend coming over and we were going to tiedye shirts and whatnot. well i planned on putting him on the leash in a few minutes but forgot..my friend came over and hours later my dad was wanting to know where the dog was. then i remmebered that hours earlierr i put him out without a leash...hours earlier!! ahh what was qrong with me i didnt think about him all day which makes no sense because i love him to death..well we were looking everywhere at 10 aclock at night and we finally heard him barking in the neibors yeard..well i found him and he was ok.but i cannot beleive i neglected him all day and put his life in danger like that..he is old andi need to pay as much atention to him as i can..now i will..im so sorry to him and if i could id tell him i love him and it makes me feel awful to think about, and that becoming a teenager i guess im getting slefish or osmehting.. but that experience really did change me..i love all my animals!!

5/14/2008 4:59:18 PM

a few years ago i saved a dog from living in an aquarium at the home of 2 mentally ill adults who were clients at the mental health clinic where i worked. i was suppose to take him to the animal shelter (as directed by my supervisor) but on my way there i couldn't do it so i took him to the vet instead. the vet tech looked at him and said he just needed a bath, vaccinations, and tlc. she gave him all his shots including his parvo shot before testing him for parvo first. he had parvo. and this vaccination kicked it into overdrive. i rushed him to the hospital where they vet said he had a very small chance of surviving due to his weight/neglect. i opted not to put him in the hospital and instead have him to put sleep. i was crying so hard and didn't stay with him while they put him to sleep. to this day i have wished i could go back in time. if i could i would have put him in the hospital to give him a chance. if it turned out he needed to be put to sleep after all, i would have stayed with him and held him while they did it. in his honor, i adopted my next dog from a kill shelter and our 2nd dog was a foster (also from a kill shelter). i also started fostering dogs and cats with rescue group. Rest now, little brave one.

5/14/2008 11:18:22 AM

When I was 16 I had a cat. In that time I didn't know anything about animal companion issues,so I decided not to neuter my cat. As consequence, this cat used to go outside everyday until one day (three years laters) he didn't come back. I didn't want to think what happened to my cat. I hope he can forgive me because of my irresponsibility. But I have worst things to confess. Sometime I didn't rescue a stray animal because simply I didn't have a place where to take him, and because all the effort that I know imply give in adoption a stray animal. I was also very coward to face euthanasia. I feel awful, one day I didn't pick up a stray cat (very little cat), and I also though he has a guardian. When I came back home in the evening, I found the little cat dead hitted by a car. Since that day, I understood that I can't continue being so coward, that a little cat has dead because of my fault.

5/11/2008 12:38:43 PM

We had the best dog ever. She was with us for 8 years. We used to put her on a runner in the back yard (only when we were home), because she liked to be outside and she was difficult to walk in the neighborhood. (she didn't like children and other dogs, and would bark and charge at them). Well, one night my husband went to bring her in and she hung herself. She twisted the runner so many times, until it was so tight. It was very traumatic, she was like our child. We felt so guilty for putting her on the runner. We didn't get another dog for a year, because she was irreplaceable and my husband didn't want another dog, because he didn't want to forget her. I got him a puppy for his birthday, and introduced her to children, people, dogs and cats as a puppy. She loves everyone and everything. She is super friendly and is easy to walk. I try to walk her 1-2 miles a day, and she's great. I learned 2 things from this tragedy. It's important to socialize your pets when they are young, and even more importantly - dogs don't belong on runners for long periods of time,unsupervised.

5/14/2008 12:31:55 AM

I have a recollection of unintentional, but nontheless still abuse of a puppy. It's supressed & I'm still not sure if I'm responsible. I was newly divorced & moved home to my parents with a baby. I started going out alot with friends and drinking, I guess to make up for my life crashing around me. I visited one of my friends, she lived in a renovated plantation. Her mixed dog had puppies and she begged me to take one. I told her no all day but she finally wore me down. I took the puppy home to my parents, knowing they have never been crazy about animals, basically threw them in the yard & forgot them other than feeding & watering. What's fuzzy is this poor puppy died in the yard from neglect. I believe I asked my parents to feed her & give her water while I was away for the week-end at a lake cabin. When I got home she was lying dead in the hot sun unser the air conditioning unit in the yard. I still have a visual of her. I thin it was my parents fault, but also mine for bringing her to an unwanted home then leaving her in the hands of people who never cared about an animal's welfare either way. I remeber asking my Dad, why didn't you feed her & give her water we were in Louisiana very humid & hot, he just shrugged & my Mom said I should not have expected them to do it in the first place. These days we could have been arrestes=d & rightly so. It haunts me to this day, I actually have gotten panic attacks from the guilt. This was about 25 years ago, please forgive me you precious little angel. Rest in peace I'm so sorry I was selfish & wasn't there for you.

5/13/2008 8:52:37 PM

When I was a child, I found a tiny frog and wanted to keep him for a short period of time. So I kept him in a metal bucket in the shade. It didn't dawn on me that shade doesn't always remain shady. He died in that bucket, alone under horrible conditions. To this day, my heart hurts because I did such a STUPID thing!

5/13/2008 1:05:03 PM

When I was a little girl, we went to visit my family in Texas. One day, we were all playing in the back yard when a tiny little snake wandered upon us. I simply watched as my uncle grabbed it, spread it out on a table and chopped off his head. I should have stood up for the snake's right to live. He shouldn't have died simply because he made his way into the wrong backyard. I will always regret not taking action. I used to have 4 cats. Pinches, Punkin, Pepper and Pebbles. We let them go outside whenever they wanted, sometimes they'd be gone for days. Eventually, Punkin and Pebbles never came back, and we didn't even post "Lost" signs for them. I went on a vacation, and when I got back, Pepper was in the closet on the verge of death. We took him to the vet, and they diagnosed him with Feline AIDS and we had to have him put to sleep. We stopped letting Pinches outside for a few years due to her increasing age, but then one day there was another cat in the yard, and Pinches didn't like that very much. So, she ran out the door to chase the cat up a tree, and then she just fell over. We carried her back inside, she was crying out in pain and couldn't stand up. We took her to the vet the next morning, and they said she had overexerted herself and her kidneys had failed, so she had to be put down. I wish we had never let them outside.

5/12/2008 8:28:30 PM

I had a hermit crab named Shelley and I really did love her. yes, I loved a hermit crab. she'd wander around my desk and room and it was great. one day I thought it'd be cool to paint her shell with nail polish to make her look pretty. the nail polish had the strongest fumes.. she died a day or two later. this might sound silly to some but I'll never know if that's what killed her or not. that was years ago and I still wonder.

5/12/2008 7:25:42 PM

I didn't own or know this animal, but someone did. Once, me, my mom, and my sister were out driving (my mom was driving) and we were just talking, laughing, not paying much attention - and we hit a cat. I know I wasn't the one driving, and the cats guardians should have kept him inside, but if I had maybe insisted that my mom pay more attention to the road and talked less, then maybe that poor kitty would still be alive. To make matters worse, the cat was still alive after we hit it, and it ran off. I wanted to go after it and take it to a vet, but my mom didn't let me.

5/12/2008 2:42:15 PM

I bought a puppy, and after a year gave him away. the people brought him back to us. so we tried again to give him away, and those people wanted to bring him back...but we said no. i still to this day dont know what happened to him.

5/11/2008 1:52:05 PM

i think my dog is depressed, and as sorry as i feel for her, i find myself doing nothing to change it. i love my dog very much, and promise to do more than just talk of change, and finally create some.

5/11/2008 12:40:44 PM

My dog Emma was my best friend since the day my dad brought her home to me. I grew up with her and she grew up with me...as time went on a i got busier and at the end of high school when emma was 10 years old i got a new puppy...who i devoted all my time to...i kept thinking emma was old and she didnt wanna play anymore. I dont know who i was kidding because now that shes gone, i remember that look in her eyes when she saw me with my new dog. She got very sick with cancer and started pooping and peeing in the house..and i would scream at her..I have NO i dea to this day why...i love dogs and feel guilty for saying it because of that. I LOVE YOU EMMA you are my best friend. I will miss her forever if only i could have one more day with you to walk, play and talk to. I Love her and will miss her more then anyone will ever understand. I will never yell at an older animal again, for they cant control anything their bodies are doing. I feel so ashamed and guilty. Its only been 2 days since my mom put her down at the vets ..and my hearts broken. I wil NEVER do this again, im trying to move on ..even though i feel terrible playing with my new dog AFTER shes no longer alive and able to stare at me in sadness. but i have to understand i cannot blame a puppy ..only myself....OMG what have i done..I love you emma ..we will be together in heaven for all eternity somdeay. see you on 'rainbow bridge' my little buen.

5/10/2008 9:28:13 AM

I kept lots of little pets in cages as a child growing up. I was an *animal lover* who thought my pets were happy and well taken care of - wrong. They were often in small,smelly cages, and sometimes neglected (irregular food and water) not to mention being imprisoned for life!Tragedies happened - overheating, escapes, etc, but I didn't learn from them, I only thought next time I'll be more careful. I was really young and dumb. When I think about this I feel bad. My positive animal feelings were misdirected into keeping pets, instead of volunteering experiences with shelters or something more useful to animals.

5/10/2008 8:18:23 AM

When the landlord was selling the house of the apartment we used to live in, we had to find a new place that would take a potbelly pig. Well, that was basically impossible. When we finally found a place that didn't mind pets at all, it was on the third floor of a building and we took it. Needless to say, it wasn't working out with our piggy and we ended up finding him a new home. It was so awful, but we had comfort in the fact that we "didn't have a choice" and we could still visit him. Now the new owner doesn't get back to us. My heart is broken; I love him so much, and we should have looked forever until we found a home for our WHOLE family.

5/10/2008 5:46:01 AM

When i was 3 my parents got me a my first dog, i dont know what breed she was but she outlived all my other dogs including her puppies. A couple of years back we got a cocker spaniel and he was gorgeous. I spoilt him rotten and he became very demanding. I began to neglect my other dog and as time passed she got older. I knew she was sick but i was too afraid to take her to the vet for fear they'd put her down. Even though she was suffering and even tho i didn't give as much attention to her she always made an effort to jump and lick me. Its so sad that no matter how they're treated pets have unconditional love for their owners. One day i heard her crying outside. When i wnet to look for her i found her in a shallow drain outside the bathroom window. I was too lazy to go and visit her that day so i dont know how long she had been in there. She could have easily jumped out but i think her legs had given in. I took her out and sat with her for the first time ages. I could see she was suffering. That night she died in my arms. I had Jaydee for 15 years. I couldn't imagine a time without her because i had grown up with her. I'm so so sorry i let my best friend suffer. I just hope that she knows how much she means to me and that i will never forget her!

5/10/2008 1:01:03 AM

In high school a year after my mother made us give up our cat because we were renting, I decided I wanted a bunny. I read everything about rabbits and was a little concerned about some things, but I really wanted one so I downplayed those concerns. This time my mother agreed because I blamed her for my cat being gone. I bought an orange and white dwarf Holland lop bunny and named him Rupert. He was literally the cutest thing I've seen to this day. I loved him so much, but a few months after I got him, the concerns I had became problems. I was guilty that he was an indoor rabbit, so I gave him run of my room all day long and then run of the upstairs when I was home. Gradually, he began to dismantle my room. He ate the dry wall, my books, any papers on the floor, chewed through cords, ripped my carpet up by the mouthful, then the carpet padding, then burrowed through the very floorboards in one corner. I taught him to jump on my bed and he repaid me by chewing holes in my treasured stuffed bunny (it made me cry and I was 16). I couldn't shut him in his cage anymore because he knew how to open it and when I locked it up for good, he would chew the metal bars for hours on end until I let him out again. He had me trained, but I still loved him. My room was in shambles and I hadn't had a single night of uninterrupted sleep in two years. My cousin heard about my rabbit troubles and decided to adopt him for her young daughter. I told her every destructive habit he had and how to prevent it and tearfully handed him over. The last I heard he had a new guinea pig friend named Sammy, but that was years ago... I'm so glad my mother never let me get a ferret.

5/10/2008 12:17:54 AM

My confession, which I am VERY proud of is I just had my last meal of meat tonight because I am definatley a vegitarian now. I got on PETA the other day and I went to "Meet you Meat" and it made me cry what they do to those animals. It makes me VERY proud of myself because I am only 11 and all of my friends still eat meat and I am REALLY working on my mom to "Go Veg".

5/10/2008 12:01:15 AM

Like many of you I have a memory that haunts me of a dog me and my boyfriend picked up from a home selling dogs-we lived with my mom in her townhouse when we were 18. The association didn't like outdoor animals. When we went to work we did not want to keep him to where he could freely roam the house and have accients and chew everything so we kept him in the bathroom and shut the door and to save on the electric bill shut off the light. We would let him out when we came home but I felt terrible about this living condition so we had only kept him for a couple more months and gave him up to a rescue organization where he could go to a good home that had room for a dog. I still feel aweful everytime I think about him being stuck in that bathroom all day. I am so sorry for being so naive to think I could handle such a responsibility when I had no room to do it. I should have given him up much sooner than I did.

5/9/2008 11:56:06 PM

I have two bearded dragons, which aren't exactly the cuddliest animals in the kingdom. But that's okay. Well, life gets so hectic sometimes I forget to do things that need to be done during the day. Nothing bad has happened to them since, but I promise to keep better care of them in the future. They are both very smart and friendly creatures.

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