Animal Shelter Poem by Paula Glynn

First viewing YouTube on a Sunday morning
She sees animals of all kinds: even lions and tigers
She also sees how owners have been viciously unkind
Leaving their should-be cared for pets behind
In dumpsters, parks, roadsides, the streets,

Even in the freezing snow
Even in unpleasant and unrelenting rain
Seeing their pets loneliness and pain
Seeing their pets perpetually sore skin
Seeing their pets with worms and parasites.

Leaving their cats to become skin and bone
Leaving their dogs to become skin and bone
Even breaking their bones themselves
Leaving their poor pets to starve
And so do teach their dogs and cats to fear people.

But the Animal Shelter does show
Successful and worthwhile treatments
How veterinary services are on the lookout
For abused and neglected animals
Animals that deserve love and affection.

Now animals treated for worms and infections
Their skin healed and their fur regrown
Being put into intensive care
Where people show they are always there
Never walking away from suffering with such cruelty.

Never seeing an innocent animal starve
Instead feeding proper and regular pet food
And making sure the animals go on living
And discover happiness in their active animal life
Where no one ever again leaves them in the rain.