My Puppy
My Puppy
A Postmodern Children’s Tale
ONCE upon a time there lived in a certain town a little girl and her name was Sara. Sara was lonely because she had no one to play with. Mommy and daddy loved their daughter very much, so one day daddy brought her a small young dog. Sara named her dog Puppy.
Daddy said to Sara:
“You must never let Puppy go outside of the house. People are not allowed to have pets. If the Pet Control Police found out that you have a dog they will come and take it away.”
Sara promised to always keep Puppy inside the house. Sara loved her Puppy. They played together all the time. Sara was not lonely anymore.
One day the door was left open and Puppy ran out into the yard. A neighbor saw the puppy and told the PC Police about it.
Next day the PC Police came, they arrested Sara’s father and took him to jail.
They told Sara:
“Little girl, your father did a bad thing. He broke the law. Keeping animals as pets is not natural. We will put the dog in the park with the rest of the animals. It is better for the dog because it is the natural way animals should live. The dog will be much happier living in the wild.”
In the park there lived a big Wolf. When the PC Police left Puppy in the animal park they knew that the Wolf would eat the little dog all up. Pets were not normal animals, they were artificially bred. Only animals in the wild had a right to live.
Sara cried and cried. “I want my Puppy, I want my Puppy” and she cried herself to sleep. The next day when mommy wasn’t looking Sara sneaked out of the house and went to the park to find her Puppy.
Well, the same Wolf that ate her Puppy was still in the park and he was hungry again. This time there were other wolves with him and they were hungry too.
When Sara got to the park she cried out:
“Puppy, Puppy, where are you my Puppy!!”
The wolves heard Sara’s voice. They found her and pounced upon her. The first wolf knocked her down. Another went for her leg and bit it off. As Sara screamed, a third wolf tore at her throat, cutting off her scream. The wolves ate Sara all up.
Later that day the PC Police found a bloody little red dress in the animal park. They knew it was Sara’s. She wore it the day they came to her house.
The same day the PC Police arrested Sara’s mother for letting her daughter go into the park. The park was for animals only. People were not allowed to go inside the park. Animals were natural, people were not.
Editor's note:
Little girl was named Sara long before Sara Palin came on the scene.
River Road
"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about
by human manipulation." -- Ingrid Newkirk, national director,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Just Like Us?
Toward a Nation of Animal Rights" (symposium), Harper's, August
1988, p. 50.
"Liberating our language by eliminating the word 'pet' is the
first step... In an ideal society where all exploitation and
oppression has been eliminated, it will be NJARA's policy to
oppose the keeping of animals as 'pets.'" --New Jersey Animal
Rights Alliance, "Should Dogs Be Kept As Pets? NO!" Good Dog!
February 1991, p. 20.
