05/13/2026
To the person who dumped these Corgi dogs in front of me โ I want you to know that I watched you do it.
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I was behind you on that road. I saw your car slow down. I saw the doors open. I saw two Corgi dogs get out, and then I watched your car drive away and not stop.
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I pulled over immediately. The rain was coming down hard and both dogs were already running in circles on the wet asphalt, confused in the specific way that animals are confused when the people they trusted simply vanish.
One kept bolting toward the tree line and coming back. The other stayed near the spot where your car had been, as if you might return.
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It took time to catch them. They were shaking when I finally got close enough. Not aggressive โ just fear and exhaustion and the desperate energy of two animals trying to understand something that has no explanation they can reach.
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I got them into the car.
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Look at them now, if you are somehow reading this. One is asleep in the passenger seat, the kind of sleep that only happens when the body accepts the emergency is finally over.
The other is sitting up, watching the road with quiet careful eyes, like he is still deciding whether to believe this is real.
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That part is the part I keep coming back to. The one watching the road. Still not sure.
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I donโt know what you told yourself when you drove away. That theyโd be fine. That someone would stop. That it didnโt count the same way because they were just dogs. Iโm not going to spend time trying to work it out.
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What I know is this. Corgi dogs are not disposable. They are not dangerous. They attach completely to the people who care for them, which is exactly why what you did is as cruel as it is.
They will spend time looking for you. They will wait near where you left them if they can. They will carry that confusion longer than you might expect.
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But not these two. Not anymore.
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They are warm tonight. They are dry. They are in a car that is not stopping to leave them anywhere. They are going somewhere that is going to be theirs, and no one is taking that from them again.
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I have what it takes to give them the life they should have had from the beginning. Stability. Patience. A real home where the doors donโt open to drop them on a wet road in the rain.
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Tonight someone chose them.
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They just donโt fully know it yet. But they will.