Why don’t you love me anymore?
Dear friends around the world,
I have come across so many stories of suffering, pain and abandonment but sometimes one stands out stronger than the rest. What happened to this little boy doggie is heartbreaking. I am re-posting here to create awareness and to bring attention to the heroes that help animals and create awareness to their suffering. The purpose of creating awareness is to let people know how much suffering animals go through and to not contribute towards this. To help lessen the suffering. Giving pain to any animal never brings good luck or happiness to anyone.
Never harm animals and never eat them.
Tsem Rinpoche
Dear mom and dad.
They found me inside the dumpster you toss me in around 8 in the night. I was crying for u begging for u to come take me back. What have I done wrong. I feel pain all over my body. My joints ached, the hole in my buttocks hurt, I cannot see my behind. I try to get up but I can’t. I cry and cry until a man who was dumping his garbage heard me. He got the shock of his life finding me in the pile of rubbish. It was wet and smelly here. The worms are eating me inside out. Again I keep thinking, what have I done wrong.
The vet said my condition is pretty bad. My old body won’t be able to handle it for long. I was full of lice, fleas and ticks. I had blood parasite too. My white blood count is too high. I am an old boy, in pain and suffering. After lengthy tests, they finally decide to let me go. I understand. I am not angry. I am just sad you are not with me. They gave me a nice meal, my last supper. It reminds me of you when I was young. You used to love me and handfed me when I was a baby. People cry around me. They held my hand as I closed my eyes. And then I finally let go and my heart beat the last.
Dear mom and dad. I am now in heaven. For whatever I did wrong to you, I hope you won’t do to another dog what you did to me. I will always love you. Until we meet again.
Remarks: Many thanks to Century Animal Medical Centre (Putatan) Dr Adit and Frankie for your help, for the love to animals you waited for us to help him even you were was closing. Thank you again for your compassion towards the less fortunate animals and rest in peace doggy.
Or view the video on the server at:
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/SPCADumpsterDog.mp4
DID YOU KNOW PET ABANDONMENT IS A CRIME UNDER THE ANIMAL WELFARE ENACTMENT 2015?
Under clause 18 (1) (p) of the new Animal Welfare Enactment 2015, abandoning any animal in circumstances which is likely to suffer trauma, pain by reason of relocation, starvation, thirst, injury or illness, is an offense punishable by a fine of RM100,000 or imprisonment for 3 years or both.
This dog was dumped at a dumpster in Penampang, behind 7Eleven on the night of 25 August 2016 (Thursday). We are looking for the culprit. If you have seen the incident or have any information about this dog, please contact our Hotline 019-880 9660.
Report Cruelty and say NO to pet abandonment. For more information, please visit SPCA Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia Fan Page.
[Source: https://www.facebook.com/spcakk/videos/vb.212265595503756/1228047553925550/?type=2&theater]
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The narrative, is particularly moving it will be very hard to forget a case like this, and may I never forget cases like this and encourage myself and others not to abandon our animals and pets.
Animals are like our children they have no one else to turn to, we need to take care of them well.
Thank you Rinpoche for this article. It is sad to see people who don’t want their cats or dogs anymore can just dump them into the garbage bin. There is a better way to get rid of the pet rather than throwing it into the garbage bin. They can find the pet a new family for adoption or send it to the RSPCA.
With folded palms,
Vivian
I am really saddened to hear that people can do such cruel things to a helpless dog.
The owner could have done a better job by sending the Dog to somebody willing to take care of him rather than just throwing him in the Dumpster where he would be stuck for hours before someone rescued him.
I really hope that such cases will not occur again and may the dog have a smooth rebirth and always be near Dharma.
This is a very sad story.
*We must love our pet, treat them well and take good care of them.
*We must not abandon our pet and we must give to friends who are reliable and try to find a new owner through social media if we really can’t take care of it any longer.
*We should adopt the pet instead of buying pet from pet shop, because the abandoned pet would be able to find a second home.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing.
I don’t know if I should be furious at whoever dumped that poor dog in the dumpster…or feel sorry for the dog to have been mistreated by its owners.
Luckily the government put into force the Animal Welfare Enactment..otherwise, more pets will be abandoned or dumped.
I cannot believe owners who had spent so much time with their pets can actually bear to throw them out the minute they are old.. is that how they would treat their parents or children? It is really heart breaking…
If they couldn’t care for it.. they shouldn’t have bought it, the poor animal.. I cannot imagine the pain and suffering during its last moments..
I really hate people that bought pets because they were “cute” and when they got older.. they became a “nuisance”… inhumane beings.
Well, i really cant bear to see this kinda torturous thing in the first place. This is also part of the reason i dare not look and read into this article and have been putting off commenting it. I used to have intelligent cats and dogs in my house,but unfortunately they are all gone now. So, we wont have them anymore because it’s too painful to see them go in a painful way. Anyway,this is a very good article to bring awareness to animal cruelty. Thank you very much Rinpoche.
When I read the article above, it really made me vey furious. Is really sad to read and also from my very own experience on how masters/mistress dumped their pets for whatever reasons which is not valid at all as you are dealing with a live being here. The most common reason which I have heard why some of my “friends’ gave up on their pets are really ridiculous is that they are not trained and their pet inconvenient them. Will they treat their kids/baby the same? Pets are meant to be trained, just like kids. So if the master/mistress does not train them, how do you expect them to behave?
When I first started to work for Ladrang, we had 2 new schnauzer who joined the family, we had to read and trained them according to the books which can be easily found on the internet. They are now grown up and oh boy, they are definitely more well behave then some kids I know. It was hard at the beginning but the training did a lot of good not only for them but for the humans too.
This story, though it may be short but it was definitely a sad and touching one.
It is really saddening to know that there are people out there who have no compassion, thought or care for the actions they do and for the suffering they put their pet through by abandoning them in such a way. What did their pets. It is really painful to see animals having to go through such suffering because of ignorant owners.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post.
Even we are not able to help, at least we do not do harm or be one of them causing the sufferings of animals or another being. Especially dogs are loyal animal, they take their owner as their family, love them and rely on them. We are our pet’s whole world, even they might be only part of our world…Treat them well as much as we could as how they love us.
Sad and touching story……a good read and it had melted my heart and i have shared it with friends to bring awareness not to abandon our pets when we have decided to keep them as if they are one of us. Love,respect and be kind to them till the very end.Be responsible once you decided to own a pet.
Thanks Rinpoche for sharing this sad,and touching article.
It pains my heart to see this video; I cannot help but think why these people have become devoid of compassion, why have they lost this caring attitude and where have they left this compassion and how did they end up like that? There no immediate answers however deeply I searched.
It is indeed sad that many have become victims of blasphemous teachings by the less holy people who had been indoctrinating them with teachings that are deemed to be associated with the negatives.
Hard as it may seems to appear but I believe hope is not lost to reconnect these people again with the right teachers who can instill in them compassion and help them beginning with more tolerance, patience and understanding.
When we value the life of others we will take responsibility to take care of them, feed them, clean them, nurse them when they are sick & treat them as part of the family. Animals too are living being, not some mere product for our conveniences & abandon them when they are not longer useful. Even though they cannot talk to us but they have feeling too, can feel pain & happiness just like we do. The howling of the dog in the video has a deep sense of sadness & it is still constantly crying in my mind.. It is just unbelievable how the owner can abandon him who were once a loyal companion. I truly hope that this video & story serve as a reminder to everyone not to abuse their pet & give them love care until their very last moment because their love to us are unconditional.
Cruel cruel act of disregard of lives!!!
Where does this kind of act ends? When we can be so disconnected to precious lives to others; even animals; we can also similarly not value our life and that of our love ones.
This is one of the more heart rendering scenes I have ever seen. To pet owners and people related in the pet industry; please do the right thing; have compassion as the main motivation and some common sense. Pets are not products but are lives!
Such irresponsible conduct basically reflects the nature of selfishness. I dare say that it stems from the one’s inability or even unwillingness to think beyond one’s own self-interest and feelings. When it no longer suits one’s purpose or becomes inconvenient, the owner selfishly only thinks about the owner’s own interest and disregard the feelings and welfare of the poor dog. Surely if the owner truly cares for other than himself/herself, the owner would have not abandoned the poor dog in such horrifyingly cruel and inhumane manner. In fact, if the owner truly cares (beyond his/her own interest), the dog would not be abandoned in the first place. If the focus is not self-serving but rather for others, one would not, in the first place be able to stomach subjecting the poor dog to such reckless and torturous treatment.
In addition, people need to understand that having a pet is a huge responsibility and it actually is about adding a member to your family. That means additional mouth to feed and costs, as such addition to the family require food, water, shelter, and medical care just like us. It also means having to care and spend time with them. All these should be thoroughly thought about before deciding to take on additional member(s) to your family.
More importantly, an animal companion which you bring into your home is not a toy to be played with for as long you feel like it and then tossed when it’s not fresh and new anymore. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out (from his/her actions) that from the minute you invite him/her to be part of your life, your animal companion will love you with every ounce of his/her being. How can it ever be right that you abandon them when it gets too inconvenient? Or for you to give them up because they got too old? More so when the abandonment is carried out in such cruel and inhumane manner.
Thank You Rinpoche for sharing with us about this article, is very heartbreaking to read and watch the video how can a we human can be so cruel to our pet, in the first place what can a dog do to you that we have to dump them when this is the time that they need us the most because if the dog is sick, this person who commit this act is really heartless . I hope the authority can do something to prevent this kind of cases ever happen again.
People always said dog is the best friend of human beings. It was a heartbreaking story. My eyes getting red after read the letter. How can a person who did hand fed to raised up the doggie but finally become a person who throws doggie intothe dumpster.
Suffering of animals can’t be voice out by them.Why people keep causing animals in suffering?Social media jobs must be done to create public awareness regarding animal abandon.
We must respect all sentient beings and create a harmony and peaceful living environment.
Thanks My Guru Tsem Tulku Rinpoche for sharing. I will keep sharing on compassion to animals.
With folded hands
Jason
It is scary of how as men and the ones deemed to be more intelligent ones yet we do things like that which destroys another living being. It is sad to watch this video reason being that the old dog is in pain. How can you abandon something that you have been taking care of for a few years. You should have feelings to him and not be abandoning him in a dumpster.
A dog’s sense of scent is very strong, and to be placing him in the dumpster where ever we as human beings cannot take it yet they expect the dog to be able to tolerate that. It is just pure abuse for the dog.
This is really a wake up call to all dog owners or future dog owners that we cannot abandon our pets no matter what happens to them. We should always love and care for them as they are our child that we have promised to give a good life to. We should never break that promise to them as we are everything that they have.
it is sad that we, humans can be heartless. Due to the internet nowadays, we are more aware of news and we can see a lot of animals suffering, be it farmed animals for their meat or animals that started out as pet but are abandoned when they are not longer cute.
As kids learn from adults, we must help the children grow up with empathy for animals. We have to educate them and expose them to both the cruelty that humans can inflict and also, the love that humans can give too. Then, we can slowly teach them to care and love all animals.
Humans are capable of so many things in desperate situations. There are cases where they throw their own babies in the dumpster. However, most people love babies and they resonate them as people.
Animals? Not quite so … maybe because they can’t communicate with animals. So animals can’t tell us exactly how they feel. The heartbreaking cries from this doggie in the video clearly show that animals can feel pain, sadness, abandonment, fear, etc. It is really so painful to watch.
I really hope this video act as a wake-up call to those who do not resonate animals as a living being who can feel just like the rest of us.
This is such a heart wrenching case of how humanity failed yet again. That poor dog had so much pain and confusion in his eyes, pleading for help from the people who found him. There are just too many acts of selfishness which totally disregard the pain cause to another living being. In this terrible suffering, we also learnt of humanity at its best, those that took the trouble to bring the dog to the Vet, the Vet who helped the dog although he was closing for the day and those who compassionately created awareness through the letter published on the social media. Thank you Rinpoche for always sharing articles on the sufferings of others. It helps us to relate to another sentient being who suffers pain and to bring out the potential Bodhicitta nature in us.
Animals have feelings just like us. We should respect the animals just as much as everything else because they might be once be our mother in many lifetime ago. If we abuse animal, who knows , maybe we abuse our mother too. Always remind ourselves that nothing deserves to be abused or suffer. We hope others will treat us good and therefore we should treat others how we would like to be treated.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post. Hope this post can create more awareness to the people in order to stop hurting the animals but to protect and treat them as human beings.
The history of mankind is forever tainted because of the cruelty mankind did (and still doing) on those who are harmless and unable to fend for themselves. While the larger population of this planet prefer to remain as silent endorsers of the many tragedies that happened because some humans took advantage of their physically able human form or advantagous position to abuse others. Just try to google, and we will see sexual child abuse, animal abuse, forced extinction of species, crimes against aborigines, “witch hunt” and a list of never-ending list of abuse that we should be very ashamed of. What does this make us? Bullies! Big bullies with no conscious. It is really sad. Please spread love and kindness, and stop any form of abuse, mental or physical.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post.
Watching this video, its really break my heart into pieces. How can a person be so cruel and heartless?? The voice of him is so helpless and the suffering that his is going through is no way any of us can imagine. Very sad seeing this and Very sad when i read the letter. If we are not an animal lover at lease we don’t harm them. The minimal respect for them at lease.
In their heart we are everything to them, what they need is just a little of our time to love and care for them.
I hope the new generations will have more awareness on respecting all animals and be more humanity.
The physical suffering is plain enough to see but it is difficult to imagine what mental and emotional anguish the poor dog suffered. You don’t need to be an animal lover to know that this act is simply wicked and yet such atrocities occur daily to poor and defenceless animals everywhere.
The person(s) who did this to the dog must see everything as objects to be used and not as sentient beings. Alternatively this person is just heartless and with total disregard for the wellbeing of other lives. While this case may be extreme, daily and in different doses of abuse, this is what we as a society do to animals by rearing them for one purpose only which is to be slaughtered for our use, amusement or pleasure.
It is unfortunate that as a race and society, we need laws to prevent us from being cruel and that kindness is not an instinct.
How could someone do that to a living being? This video is so heart-wrenching to watch…it’s really sad people can be so cold, cruel and mean to dump a dog to the trash bin and let it die slowly? how would you feel if someone dump your child into that trash pile? The amount of suffering, fear and pain animals have to go through, especially the stray animals, is beyond imagination. They are shelterless, hungry and no love, we human being should not add on anymore sufferings onto them already. On the other hand, I truly respect those animal activists who stand up for anti-animal abuse and give them a warm and loving home, kudos to you guys. Never harm animals. Never eat them.
“If you say you don’t have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?” ~Tsem Rinpoche
Dear Rinpoche,
This letter describe the feelings of alone , disappointment and sad of an abandoned dog very lively and accurately. It perfectly gives us an insight of the feelings of an abandoned dog which we would never be able to describe it. The pain and suffering is very clear. People should think clearly and take in consideration of any circumstances before taking in a dog as pet. Simple abandoning the dog when things does not go right is cruel and inhumane. I hope this letter can raise awareness among pet owners.
Humbly,
Chris Chong
The letter was most heart wrenching. For a child that is sick, parents will immediately send their beloved child to consult the best doctor. However, animals are not seen as such. It reminds me that we should show our love and care even to the elderly. In this case, the sickly and dying old dog.
Thank you Rinpoche for highlighting this and will social media this.
Just as His Holiness, The Dalai Lama’s golden words have described, “Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man, Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, Just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.” Such are the golden words and feelings so compassionately expressed by His Holiness, The Dalai Lama. The greatest of Lamas, so well loved by the millions the World over, both young and the old, for his profound insights into the humane conditions of all beings. To the Buddhists around the World, and even to many non-buddhists too, it is said and believed he embodies the epitome of their faith, the highest human aspiration. All living beings are said to be spiritual in essence, conscious with their feelings of empathy to animal beings, wither at work or play. Most are kind-hearted and self-dedicated animal lovers and care-takers too. All living beings irrespective of whether humans or animals are said to be spiritual in essence, and do naturally have a longing for happiness and be free from all varied experiences of sufferings like everybody else! When the law in Malaysia was passed, it was hoped that the law would definitely raise public awareness on the importance of taking care of animals’ welfare. As emphasied by Rinpoche, this posting is to help create awareness, i.e. never to harm animals and never to eat them too! Om Mani Padme Hung.
The video is so difficult to watch. There is so much suffering of the dog. It is really sad to see people dumping their dogs. We should always treat our dogs are our family, and not simply dump them when the situation does not permit. I have heard that quite a lot of people give away their dog (or just simply dump their dogs on the streets) when they move to smaller house or a condominium.
On the other hand, it is good to see there are laws to protect animals in Malaysia, but I am quite sure many are not aware of the law. It is our responsible to inform the public, in hope that it will have some effects in stopping people from dumping their dogs.
Please do not dump your pets when they are old. Love them and care for them till the end.Thank you Rinpoche for posting this heart-wrenching article. I hope this will create awareness for pet owners to be more responsible to their pets who they once loved.
It is heart wrenching reading this article. Animals is also living being and deserve to be loved, care and respected too. Why would anyone abandon him in a dumpsite and let him be disposed?
Please stop abusing and torturing animals.
Thank You Rinpoche for sharing this touch story with me to open our wisdom eye. My eye was blurred by tears when I am writing this comment. I always think what if we switch role; we are animal and being dumped or tortured, what will we think? I am touched particularly the article “what did I do wrong”. The dog lying helpless for the last moment of its life. I was sent to theater for emergency for life and death situation. I was fear and lost lying but never give up fighting to live. Can a dog deserve to live and respect? Their lives are precious too.
Please always think you were the animal what do you feel about being tortured.
Thank You Rinpoche for sharing this.
Cheers,
Soon Huat
As I read this post I can’t help but felt heartbroken for this poor furry friend. Was it their karma?
How could she understand why this is happening to her. Makes my heart cringe with sadness too.
I wish that no one would abandon their pet when there are old or sick. Animals do have feelings just like human. They don’t wish to suffer just like us too.
Let’s show love to all animals and especially don’t eat them too.
Thank you Rinpoche for the sharing. I’m so glad I am a vegetarian now too.
Jill Yam
It’s very sad how some people have become so cruel to other living beings, making them go through so much suffering. All this is so unnecessary. This is the result of years of extreme selfishness that lead a person to being cold and cruel like this.
It’s true that more awareness for animals is necessary. It must be ingrained in our culture that hurting other living beings should never be in our mindstream. And I hope that whoever did this to the dog is reprimanded so that he knows what he did is wrong and it sets a precedence for others to think twice before hurting an animal.
Thank you Rinpoche for this most moving letter.Whenever and wherever this happens, it is very sad. We take home a being and in the vigor of his youth , we love him and even dote on him. Then, we grow bored with him and neglect him. Not being cleaned,he gets disease and festering sores. He suffers from hunger and wastes away in pain and suffering. When it’s ‘too much’ for us, we abandon him. We dump him in a garbage bin and leave him to die in all the squalor and the filth. What has he done to deserve this?
How about, if there is a role reversal? We are the dog and the dog were us humans? We want to speak out but we can’t give voice to our fears, our pain and our suffering?
Fortunately for this dog, he was rescued at the 11th hour. He was put to as much ease as possible and felt the warmth of love and care once more in the last moments of his life.His last cries are heart-wrenching!
We must create awareness, develop empathy for suffering beings and not ever put anyone in suffering like this.