Puppy love poem

Kinski

The resident poet over on puppy love has written the poem below to highlight the plight of puppy farmed dogs, I don't know about anybody else but it brought more than one tear to my eye.

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One hundred dogs crammed into hell
Where misery, pain and torment dwell,
Where life is void and love adrift
And death a longed for clement gift.

One hundred dogs in stagnant holes,
With vacant stares and trampled souls,
Bleak weeping eyes, raw oozing sores,
Disjointed limbs, soft bleeding paws.

One hundred dogs resigned to face,
The rancid stench of fettered space,
The rusted cage, the cloying dread,
The faeces ridden concrete bed.

And when those hundred dogs meet death,
With aching hearts and laboured breath,
Their blood will spill in warm release,
As Rainbow’s Bridge ordains sweet peace.

So puppy buyers please take heed
And don’t play host to farmer’s greed.
INSIST you meet the breeding dams,
In loving homes, not farming shams.

Those pet shops, market stalls, lay-by’s,
Are venues chosen to disguise.
The pain behind such heinous trade,
Where hundreds of sick dogs are made.

By Cheryl Lowe