New people and their dog moved into our neighbourhood last winter. The people moved in the brand new $700,000 house and the dog was put in the yard. She was an little old black and white mutt that they called (what else?) Happy.

She wasn't Happy. We saw her covered in excrement and mud, the icicles hanging from her matted coat. We worried many times that she was dead because she lay for hours at a time in the mud on her short tether all day and all night without moving. She was given food (mostly rice and noodles), and water, and the overhang of the house was "shelter" so the SPCA said they could not do anything.

We saw her "family" come home and then we knew that she was alive because her tail thumped the ground at their approach, but they did not even stoop to pat her or acknowledge her in any way.

Now she really is Happy . She has a cat friend and a warm bed and good food and walkies everyday, and she will be loved for the rest of her days, and she will live in dignity and die with dignity too, not on the end of a rope in a cold, dark, lonely yard.

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