I saw them: a mother and her puppy. Two shadows, two silences, two skeletons wrapped in skin.
A pregnant dog was abandoned in a locked yard, left without food or water. She waited in vain for her owners, surviving on scraps thrown by neighbors. When her puppies were born, most died from hunger and cold — but one survived. Starving and weak, she gave everything she had to keep that single pup alive, holding on only for him.