Witnessing violence
Today I witnessed a incidence of violence I wish to never see again. I didn't see someone getting beaten or killed, god forbid I ever have to experience that again after I was swarmed by nine people several years ago. No, what I saw was a small little dog left alone to wander a major intersection on his own with his master nowhere in sight. As you can guess I watched that small dog get struck by a car. Thankfully the driver saw him crossing the road and when the dog stopped in the middle of the intersection I knew something bad would happen.

The dog stopped and the guy whose name is Ian drove very slowly through the intersection only to have the dog dart in front of him at the last moment. This dog was not the brightest creature in animal kingdom. Because Ian was going so slow the dog got his paw crushed under the wheel but thankfully nothing else. It shrieked in pain and sped off to the parking lot behind the bus stop I was waiting at. When Ian saw he had struck the dog he pulled over to where we were and checked its safety along with myself and two employees of the bank on the corner. His front leg was mangled and bleeding and he held it shivering above the ground. The blood was so very bright and no one wanted to get close enough to him to read his dog tag until I volunteered to do so. We tried calling the phone number on his tag but no one answered so Ian said he take him to the vet and a very intense but well meaning chinese guy offered to guide us to the spca.

The poor dog (whose name I never learned) was placed in a box which I held in my lap during the trip while Ian and I talked. I learned his name and what he had been doing before the accident (going to his job cleaning gutters). The wounded dog was very strong after the originally yelping he was quiet and calm in the box. He may have been in shock but Ian and I were both impressed. After we dropped the dog off Ian dropped me off at work. Weird way to start the day. I don't think I will forget the sight of seeing that dog kind of collapse under Ian's tire but I'm glad he survived and seemed to be in non-life threatening condition when we left him at the spca hospital.