Letter to the Editor. "Haldimand Press" and "The Sachem" (Dunnville)

I am currently trying to get an article submitted to the Haldimand Press and/or Dunnville Sachem. I wrote a letter to the editor in regards to the untimely death of our family member, "Angel" a dog with a sweet smile and a large amount of people/friends who will deeply miss her.

If the article is not published I will post it up here in the "Thanks Page" as a Eulogy for our dear canine companion.

"I have written a letter to the editor, I kept it as short and sweet as possible without revealing too much personal information (I really hope that this piece could be published). For the sake of knowing, (as I didn't put details in the piece) our family's long time life companion-Angel was hit by a car. Many animals are hit by cars everyday, many family pets pass away everyday, but this animal was special for a number of reasons-and however old she was, she was healthy and well, probably had a few more happy years left in her as well. I wouldn't be writing a letter to the editor if my parents had the peace of mind that it was an accident and someone felt as equally bad about doing it as my parents were to find her corpse on the road like a common piece of roadkill. But, that is exactly it-someone who was being careless hit an aged dog and just kept going. They didn't stop to check, leave a sorry note, nothing. Probably some young jackass with more important things to worry about. Nonetheless, had it been a small child-an elderly citizen, would this person have stopped? That is a bit of the kick in the pants. People think, "well, its just a dog," but is it "just a dog?" Not even for the disrespect shown towards the family that rescued and saved her, but what would have happened had this jackass hit a person? Is our community that rural that we should feel unsafe crossing the roads just because no one is there to catch us when we do something wrong? I don't want or expect police to sit near the house because a dog was hit, I don't want compensation, or even an apology (a letter of condolence would be nice for my parent's heartache though),  I am just looking to let people know that when you are on the road, walking down the street-our actions do impact those around us. We may at times, have the cowardly ability to not empathize what may happen after-but it could very well happen to you, and until it does, you really will never know how heartbreaking it is."

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