This afternoon I saw a dying dog.
Well - I don't know if he was dying. I hope he'll survive. But he'd been ran over by a car, and he was badly hurt and couldn't move and had thrown up and defecated from the shock. A nice man had moved him from the middle of the road to under a wall, and he was just curled up there. I saw him coming out from my singing teacher's house, and we thought it odd that a dog would just be curled up there and not move - especially that particular dog, which she said was always very hyperactive - so we went to see what was up. He was curled up and crying and it just broke my heart. His owners had gone somewhere else for the afternoon, according to a neighbor - and had left the gate of their garden open, so the dog had run out. They'd left the gate open, so the dog had run out, onto a street that's widely known for being dangerous - since it's long and straight and cars go fast on it.
If I could've gotten my hands on the owners of the poor dog I would've punched the shit out of them. How can you be that irresponsible and take that little care of a pet? You don't leave a gate open for your dogs to leave your garden when there's a very dangerous road nearby. It's a bad habit almost all dog owners around there have, according to my singing teacher... sigh. How can people be that thoughtless?
When I left, the dog was still crying, and my singing teacher had gone to phone a veterinarian. I hope the dog survives...

Yes, I'm recently familiar with dying dogs :(