“I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something.”
Edward Everett Hale
I got a phone call from a truck driver
Who each day travels on the interstate
He told me about a starving, injured dog
Who was now suffering a most hideous fate
He told me this dog was lying by the side of the road
That he had been lying there, for at least an entire week
He told me this dog had been hit by a car on this interstate
And he feared that this injured dog would perish in this heat
He also told me that he had called everyone he could think of
From local animal control departments, to local humane societies
He also called local radio and television stations seeking assistance
But unlike Rags a week ago, no one seemed to care, so he called me
And now that I knew about this injured canine lying beside the interstate
I couldn’t get him out of my mind and soon headed off to search for him
I finally found him lying in some deep grass, along the highway’s shoulder
He was emaciated, starving, had a broken leg, and to my truck he hobbled in
I’ve decided to name this suffering, abandoned, not cared about dog - ‘Highway’
And I’ve transported him to an animal hospital, where he is undergoing leg surgery
A little more than a week ago, thousands of people were following Rags on the news
Yet only one man, a truck driver, cared about this dog, so callous and cold is humanity
And Highway has turned out to be just as gentle and as sweet as little Rags,
He was probably abandoned on this Interstate – no collar, microchip, or tags.
And like little Rags and all the other abandoned and lost orphans out there,
We are now determined to find Highway the loving home that he deserves.
“Think occasionally of all the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
Albert Schweitzer
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