My wife and just adopted a stray - miniature dachshund (was two of them but couldn’t get both). She just wanted a safe place to be loved. I get physically ill even thinking about someone being just mean to one - this is psychopathic violence I cannot even comprehend.
I hear you, my friend.
We currently have an American Dingo (also known as a Carolina Dog) who is hilarious (if he had a celebrity twin it would be Matthew McConnaughey) and a Treeing Walker Coonhound who was found in the Everglades. The Coonhound has endured unknown traumas, his body is riddled with scars, but he still has the most gentle heart. (If he had a celebrity twin, it would be Walter Matthau.)
My greatest dog was a princess of a Rottweiler who fought a bear (but cried when dogs didn’t want to play with her) and a Doberman who was the most dapper gentleman I’ve ever known.
Now, my bigger dogs probably could have protected themselves... but a little chihuahua... against a bat? What a sick F***. I hope he gets his just rewards.