SHINY BLACK PROBLEM (standard:drama, 981 words)
Author: BENTLINK	Added: Apr 26 2010	Views/Reads: 3087/1956	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Someone I never met gave me a problem I had to solve; a passed on burden that before being resolved would caused me to learn more about myself than I really wanted to know and wound my heart in the process.

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call! 

On his second visit the dogcatchers brought along a large cage-like trap
baited with, not as you might suspect used diapers and table scrapes 
but cat food. The traps overnight yield was not as every one but me had 
hoped the black dog but instead a, highly agitated and not surprisingly 
very indignant young raccoon.  I could not stop myself from suggesting 
aloud as the dogcatcher now making his third visit struggled to free 
the raccoon with out being bitten that “huggies” might have proved 
better bait than nine lives! The second night's trapping expedition 
again using cat food was more successful and the dog was captured. 

We still have ground moles digging in our lawns and the young raccoons
have learned to climb into and scatter the contents of the roll around 
garbage bins, because no shinny black four-legged policeman is making 
nightly patrols to keep them at bay. 

I still feel sad and ashamed that I did so little for the animal that
seemed to believe he was somehow connected to me.  I wish these 
feelings had not been forced upon me.  Along with guilt and sadness, I 
also harbor great angry for the people that dropped him here.  My 
heartfelt wish for them is that someday when they are in need as the 
dog was they are repaid in kind.  Damn the people who set this dog off 
here so close to my heart! 


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