Animal Cruelty
My pastor once told a story during sermon about a cat named “Ugly”; stating that the story was a true story, although the story didn’t particularly involve him. The story of “Ugly” revolved around a cat who only had one eye and had a wide hole where the other eye should have been. He was missing an ear as well, and one of his feet was oddly shaped, signifying it had been broken at some point in his life. He had a small stub for a tail, which was always jerking and twitching and had sores covering his head neck and shoulders. The apartment complex which Ugly fondly called “home” did not welcome him very much. Whenever anyone saw the cat their reaction was always “He is so ugly!” All parents told their children to stay away from the cat, and the adults would throw rocks at him. When rocks were thrown he would curl up and cower, and beg for forgiveness. Neighbors would spray Ugly with a hose, and Ugly would always have the same reaction; he would sit there and get soaked until the man/woman stopped spraying him with a hose. He would always run up to children and rub his head against their hands, begging for some form of attention or love. In the rare occasion Ugly was picked up, he purred like a motorboat.
However, there came a day where Ugly mistakenly asked for love from a neighbor’s two dogs. The dogs saw Ugly as a threat, and mauled the cat. The pastor then went on to narrate the original storyteller’s dialogue. The narrator (a man living in the complex who had always been fond of Ugly) heard the cat’s shrill screams as he was being attacked. In panic, the narrator ran outside to find Ugly’s body twisted and bitten to a pulp and laying in a puddle of blood. The narrator picked up the poor disheveled cat and tried to carry him to his apartment to call a veterinarian. However, Ugly was wheezing and gasping for breath and was fighting for his life. With what little energy he had left, Ugly began licking the narrator’s ear and purring like a...