I hate the way I turned my head

Knowing their future is so grave

I know the two I chose today

Will find homes to call their own

But now I think about the rest

With their futures so unknown

What a shame to think of those

Who didn’t have “the look” it takes

To make me think I’d find a home

And right now my heart just aches

It wasn’t of their choosing

To be born a mixed breed mutt

But they’d be here a year from now

I just feel it in my gut

I wish that I could find a way

To stop breeding without thought

We need to find another way

For this lesson to be taught

I know that many out there

Are trying hard to do the same

And those of use who work on this

Are surely not the ones to blame

But until that day is here

That dogs are fixed who are not shown

We’ll keep seeing their sad faces

In the shelters where they’re thrown

We know that we can’t save them all

Though we try with all our might

Of all the things I do in life

This is one thing worth the fight