Dog Stories Poem by O Anna Niemus

A dog abandoned stays at
a telephone poll
for
48 hours running
after every car
which looks
like his

Dogs' paws nailed to tables
by Descartes before the
vivisector carved them.
'I crucify. Therefore I am'?

120 dogs run to
death or frozen
or broken legged
dying in Iditarod..

Dogs at San Diego
State, Ohio State
etc. in forced swimming
or sleeplessness or
other experiments..
social animals kept alone

Dogs eaten
after being skinned
alive in Korea...
eaten without being skinned
in Taiwan and China

Mangy dogs leaving pawprints
of blood starving
to death from telescoped
intestines

Junkyard dogs
.. neglected
dying of thirst

Back yard dogs
with chains embedded
in their necks
from long neglect

Dogs at Akron's largest
hospital
given laryngectomies that
their cries not disturb
patients when traveling
up the ventilator shafts*

Dogs used as minesniffers
blown apart
in Afghanistan and Iraq
while the US and Israeli regimes
are 2 of the last nonsignatories
to the land mine treaty.

It is said dogs no longer
researched upon
at Wright Patterson..they were
kept in cages..
with sores where wire meets flesh

Greyhounds with living
rabbits as race motivators
.. breaking their legs
in dog racing.

At the University of Liverpool
these greyhounds go from the frying
pan into the fire. Too old or injured
to race they end up under the drug
company research carving knives.

Dogs dying in the hold
of airplanes
smashed by big boxes

Dogs abandoned on
the dock freezing, dying of heat

'Hunting dogs' like
beagles.. kept
in cages all year
round.. their pads bloody
from wire mesh

Police dogs trembling
in the cold
captive to
earthlaw enforcers..
sometimes shot

50,000 dogs and other
research animals at the
Univ of Texas
trapped in underground cages
drowning in a flood.. Not a single
human researcher drowned.
The labs are underground
to avoid inspectors' eyes.

Dogs dying of
grief
at the
graves of their masters

Dogs losing legs in
steel jaw traps

A woman is sent by her relatives
to a nursing home.. her
dog is sent to the pound
where she, housebroken
and obedient, does not
want to urinate in her cage
and dies of a burst bladder.

Dogs dying of cancer from
the roadkill, dog pound kill
and slaughterhouse cancerous
animals put into their food
while vegan dogs are living longer.

Dogs at Tufts University
had their legs broken using
a machine developed by Blalock
of Johns Hopkins.

Robert White at Case Western
made many 2 headed dogs and
monkeys.. all died shortly
after.

Case became the last university
in the US to end the killing of
dogs in medical schools.
Now pigs are the new scapegoats..
or scapepigs.


* James R spoke of the Akron
hospital dogs' cries
* Physicians' Committee For
Responsible Medicine is over 1000
vegan physicians and other
health therapists recommending
vegan diet for dogs as well
as humans.. many recommend
vegetarian diet for cats
since the enzyme taurine has
been synthetically available
since 1931