disenchantedbunny.

It is a little known fact that there exists a potholed relationship between dogs and ambulances. Dogs, as we all know, chase ambulances. Popular theory states that this is due to the fact that most dogs will chase any large moving object with flashing lights and loud noises. But in reality (and ambulance drivers know this), most dogs are injured and in need of urgent medical attention. Perhaps they were abused by their previous owners, or perhaps they were all just born that way; it does not really matter. Nor does it matter to the ambulance drivers, who seldom stop to check if the dog is okay. Unconsciously or not, ambulance drivers are in the habit of slowing down to let the dog chase them for a brief period longer.

This could be for many reasons, but I will only list a few. Some ambulance drivers selfishly like dogs and the vision of a dog chasing them, if only momentarily, will pull them out of the everyday despair they find themselves in. Or, perhaps, their current problem in the back is not urgent and they can spend the occasion tormenting some small creature. Some may even feel the need to stop and help the dog (although these cases are far and few between). The point I wish to make though is that the driver will inevitably find their own problems more pressing than those of the dog and drive off, leaving the dog stranded by the side of the road.

It may be fair enough that the life of a human is more important than that of a dog, but let us all pause a moment and give a second of silent sympathy to these suffering canines. Imagine the hope that must be running through their little doggy heads. Ah, they would say to themselves - I am finally saved from my agony! But as quickly as this implausible thought might enter their heads their hope is thoroughly and efficiently broken as the ambulance speeds up and drives off.

This is, in all probability, why I am not a dog.