Dear Editor,
My part-time volunteer work is rescuing animals, mainly dogs, off the streets of Georgetown. Over ten years of witnessing man’s cruelty to animals I thought I had seen it all: dogs starved to death; dogs covered with mange and ticks; dogs hacked nearly to death with eyes protruding; and some dogs with all the above. Well all this pales in comparison to the horror of seeing three pit bulls attacking a man. Some might say the dogs are just getting their revenge, but unfortunately the ones who get killed, maimed or just frightened are normally innocent bystanders: for example, the North Ruimveldt jogger, the two Tucville residents, the two employees of GSPCA, the security guard at Ogle, the Goedverwagting, ECD, housewife, two pupils at the Eccles Nursery School, and just last week, a 20-year-old trying to earn a few dollars picking mangoes in a vacant lot. In fact, the next victim could be your mother, your child, your boyfriend or just someone you know. It could even be a minister of parliament out for a Sunday stroll.
