:. Little Pixie

Contributed by Sylvia Jeanes

She had it rough, little Pixie. Goodness knows where her mother first laid her down, and where she and her separated, but she appeared as an abandoned dog in our Taman last year, 2008. She was small and rail-thin, so much so that her vagina seemed extended from the rest of her body. Soon after her arrival, she was pursued by all the male dogs in the area, and became pregnant. During her pregnancy, she was fed well by an SPCA member, put on a little weight and strength. She was very large before she gave birth in December last year.

She gave birth under the construction workers quarters not far from here. She kept them hidden away, while she was suckling, her body growing yet thinner still. When they emerged there was only one. "There was another one", the workers said, "but the other dogs bit it and killed it".

Sylvia & Simba

The "only one" began to appear on the street with the mother. A kind neighbour rescued the at risk "only one", and called it Simba. Pixie missed her friend and baby, and waited and wailed on the street night after night. But her little baby was safe and rapidly put on weight, so after a while she was resigned to the loss of her little one.

Time went by and she came on heat again. Her body was still thin, and day after day, night after night, she was pursued. After a week of being impregnated by umpteen male dogs, she was very tired and hungry. She came by, and the SPCA lady fed her. She was ravenous and gobbled down every grain of rice in competition with the other dogs. Little did she know this would be her last meal.

On the next day, she was at the last stages of her heat, but still a few male dogs were having one last go. Just then a big red truck appeared. Men got out with guns. She didn't know what a gun could do, and a second later as the bullet entered her body, the pain of past events intensified as never before; searing hot pain ripping apart her body; blood streamed out uncontrollably as she cried in pain. Her cries slowly grew softer and then she was gone, just like that. What had she done wrong? Why or why indeed! The cry of a little one seemed different tonight. Did Simba sense his only mother had gone? It is time to stop this senseless killing.

Comments from SPCA KK on this story:

Pixie is just one of the countless strays that have become victims, victims of : 1.Irresponsible pet ownership 2.Inhumane methods of stray dog control. Strays do not happen overnight. They once had owners like you and me, and were household companions. Left unspayed, over-breeding took its course leading to too many unwanted dogs, and cats too, which eventually become strays like Pixie. Had Pixie or her mother and all the rest been spayed/neutered, there would have been no valid reason whatsoever, for tragic endings of innocent animal lives such as hers. Together, let's do our part in keeping the stray dog population to a minimum, or even zero, if possible. Let's start being Responsible Pet Owners - please Spay/Neuter your pet today.

Posted by webmaster on 18 Jun 2009, Thu