The Big Secret

            The original plan was to go back to Midnight’s neighborhood but the Mayor decided that it was time for more serious paw-action, like going to the shelter!  Midnight was horrified when she heard that.  She started shaking, as a matter of fact.  It was also frustrating to try to figure out what she was hiding and we all knew she was hiding something.  There had to have been more to this cruelty story and after a lot of paw pulling, she told us.

            And it made all of us sick.

            Midnight actually revealed this, as we were headed towards the shelter.  She said that a lot of animals were taken by her mom’s killer and a couple of other humans to sell to people who were into dogfighting!

            Dogfighting!!!!

            No cat or dog even wanted to think about it.  It was just one of those things that you didn’t even meow about!  When she mentioned it, Daisy even let out a high pitched shriek and this is no lie, all of the curls in her fresh fur straightened out.  Smokey was struck speechless, Barney’s whiskers wouldn’t stop twitching, Baby was about hysterical as Daisy, and the other Trouties were also.  The Mayor couldn’t meow out a word.

            Do you blame us?

            Dogfighting is one of the most unimaginable horrors in the animal world.  I don’t even have to meow out for you why it impacted us cats.  It scared all of us and bepaws of that we didn’t talk about it.  But, obviously, that was going to change…

            We had a huge problem though.  How were we going to put a stop to this if this was true and why wouldn’t it be?  Midnight definitely wouldn’t lie about this, not the way she was acting.  She had been through to much to pull off a stunt like this.  Now, what were we going to do?