Today I saw a homeless man on the side of a busy street lose hold of the long rope attached to his puppy. It bolted into the busy intersection and he ran after it. Cars had to screech to a halt to avoid hitting both of them. When he finally caught it in the median, he got very angry, yanked the leash and swung the puppy around in the air. On a similar note, there was a story in the paper about a local man who confiscated a homeless man's dog because he had watched for over a week and saw that it was starving and never had any water to drink on the hot street corner. The homeless man said he would sell it to him for a hundred dollars or a pound of marijuana and that he didn't have to feed or water the dog because he was punishing it for bad behavior. It makes me beyond mad to see helpless animals being treated this way by their humans so I guess this is just a vent.