The story haunts me. 

There is the evil of commission where murders, rapists and thugs project misery on victims with intentional self-serving acts of evil. And then there are acts of evil by omission The “owner” of an long neglected, unfed, unsheltered and chained dog left town for more than a week. The animal died of starvation and hypothermia. The “owner” was the embodiment of the plodding stupid evil of omission. He was stone cold indifferent to if that animal tethered to a utility pole lived or died. As a result, that one phone call to the humane society to take the dog away never happened. The neighborhood is complicit in the act of omission. His neighbors heard the pleading howls of this shivering, starvation-cramped, helpless lonely beast and did not make that one phone call…. until the dog had suffered to death. What really haunts me is this was so common for this crowd it didn’t even provoke a call until he mercifully passed away alone and in agony.

This “owner” is charged with a felony. He will be subject to the law but not justice. The neighborhood will be just short yet another throw away pit bull.