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#5- A short story about a social issue :(
Billy

            I was walking home from school, when a black and white cat appeared next to me. It didn’t run away when I took a step close to it. So I took another and another. The cat stayed still.

            “meeeeeoooowwwww” I said simply

            The cat immediately replied. And walked towards me. She played with my shoe laces. This was the first time I have ever seen the cat, and I have decided to call it Billy. Billy is a smart cat, shes not afraid of human beings like us, she actually socializes with them. I decided to cut off a bit of my shoe laces since Billy was in love with them, and I walked home.

            The next day when I headed outside, everybody was crowded around Billy. I thought she died. But she was socializing with people, everybody was astonished by Billy, she was surrounded by food and toys. Billy isn’t a normal cat, normal cats usually run away but for some reason Billy isn’t afraid of dying.

            Around 11 o clock at night, there was cat cries. The drunk man at the corner of the streets dog attacked a cat, not Billy. The cat scattered away, jumped right in front of me, and I noticed it didn’t have an eye.

            I have always wondered why Billy wasn’t attacked, Most cats run away because they’re afraid that we would hurt them, a lot of human beings actually do. I don’t think it fair, how strays get abused in the middle of the street and nobody ever does anything. Every cat deserves a home; they do not deserve to be living on the streets, missing an eye or leg, and without a family. Most cats don’t understand, some are kittens.

            On TV I always see things to save the animals, and they show clips of abused animals. But what most of the people who produce those commercials use abused animals as an advantage to gain money, they’re like robber barons, they have no intention with helping the animals.

            When I was around 7, a cat got hit by 3 cars, and not one car stopped to see what happened, and the driver didn’t cringe at the bump in the road, they continued driving. There are actually a lot of humans the suffer the same, but cats are living creatures too, they can’t be given a home, but they do not need to be attacked publically.  The cat, on my block with one eye, always stare at humans, but if I take one step near the cat, it runs away, thinking I will hurt it. And Billy, socializes with random people on the street but all cats aren’t the same, and Billy is definitely a unique cat.

            I think that stray cats is a social issue, they carry around diseases from hiding in dangerous places, from us.