Biker Found This Dog Chained To A Bridge With A Note!

Biker found the Golden Retriever chained to the bridge at 3 AM with a note that said “I can’t afford to put her down. Please don’t let her suffer.”

The dog was maybe eight years old. Tumor the size of a softball on her belly. Barely breathing.

Someone had left water and her favorite toy, a stuffed duck that was worn from years of love. But it was the second note in the collar that changed everything.

I’d stopped to check my bike when I heard whimpering. Years of riding, never seen anything like it.

This beautiful dog, dying, abandoned, but still wagging her tail when she saw me. The collar had two notes.

The first about putting her down. The second was different. Child’s handwriting. Crayon on notebook paper.

“Please save Daisy. She’s all I have left. Daddy says she has to die but I know angels ride motorcycles. I prayed you’d find her. There’s $7.43 in her collar. It’s all my tooth fairy money. Please don’t let her die alone. Love, Madison, age 7.”

But what was written next frightened me as the owner was not………

Fifty-eight years old. Been riding forty-two years. Thought I’d seen everything.

I was wrong.

Tuesday night. Actually, Wednesday morning. 3 AM. Riding back from visiting my brother in hospice. Cancer. Another damn cancer story. I was angry at the world, at God, at the unfairness of watching good people die slowly.

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