Thank you for the comments :) Indeed it is a bit of both. Soon as I saw the dog, I instantly went to that. I just had to think how to do it as a poem, which puts more feeling into it. It breaks my heart to watch them suffer. I wanted to help rescue and re-home animals, but my apt is a rental, so that wouldn't go over very well. In a sense, I can feel what these fur-babies are feeling.