BEST FRIEND: Chloe’s story

Last week my dog Chloe was hit by a car. Yes, she is OK but the person who hit her didn’t stop. They didn’t care what would happen to my best friend. They didn’t care if the dog they had hit had a family, that the dog was loved.

If the driver had pulled over right then and there, they could have saved Chloe from being hit yet again by pulling her off the road, though thankfully she wasn’t. I feel like this is a very big problem. How many dogs are hit by cars where the driver keeps driving each day or each year? Well it’s a very high number, 1.2 million dogs each year.

Imagine that being your own dog, and while in Idaho you cannot legally have that person who hit your dog put away for the crime of hitting your dog, because your dog is your property.

Now we don’t know who hit Chloe because they didn’t stop, but I know there were some good people who did, and I would thank them over and over again for stopping for my best friend, because I don’t know what I would do without her.

Chloe is 9 years old and clearly has a lot of lives because this is not the first time she has gotten out, and this time it shook us like no other time before. She is safe and at home recovering. I’m glad my best friend’s life wasn’t taken, and I get to spend some more years with her. I just wanted to get this off my chest, because I know what I would do if I saw a dog trying to cross the road.

EMMA MARKS

Coeur d’Alene