12/06/2025
🐾 A Message From Me – The Dog Who Always Came Back… Until I Didn’t 🐾
Hi there.
I’m that dog you always saw trotting down the road. Tail wagging, nose to the ground.
Just doing my thing. Living my best life, they said.
“My dog’s fine – he always comes back,” my humans would say.
And I did.
Until the day I didn’t. 😱😭
That day started like any other.
I caught a scent and followed it.
I didn’t know one wrong step onto the road would be the end of my story.
💔 I never made it back.
❤️🩹 My family? They were heartbroken.
❤️🩹 My fur siblings? Waited by the door, not understanding why I never returned.
❤️🩹 The person who hit me? If they stopped, they now carry that trauma with them. If they didn’t… they left me there.
❤️🩹 Maybe their children were in the car. Maybe they saw it happen.
❤️🩹 A stranger found me. They cried as they called for help.
❤️🩹 Volunteers came out - again - hoping I’d be okay. But I wasn’t.
They lifted me gently, placing me in their car, doing the part of their role they hate the most. 😭😭
I might not be chipped, so I will go to a vet or police. More heartbroken people involved. ❤️🩹
❤️🩹 Someone made that awful phone call to my family… “We’re so sorry.”
👉 This isn’t just about me.
It’s about EVERY dog who was “fine” until they weren’t.
Every family who gambled with our lives.
Every volunteer who has to carry our broken bodies instead of reuniting wagging tails.
Every driver who can’t forget what they saw.
Every child who now asks why the doggy isn’t home anymore.
🔶 Please… don’t let your dog wander.
🔶 Don’t say “they always come back.”
Because one day… we don’t.
🧡 In memory of the ones who never made it home.
- From all of us at ADDR
Keeping them safe is YOUR responsibility.