What a sad story, but with a happy ending for Sam the other puppy.
It is weird - I just finished my college speech class (I wanted to get it over with) and I also gave my persuasive speech on spaying and neutering! All I did was a lousy PowerPoint presentation, but I did include pictures of two of my saddest rescues (Bandit, the puppy who was found almost frozen to death, and Hanna, the kitten I found very thin and eyes so gunked up she couldn't see). I had told their stories for my introduction, then moved on to statistics and the body of the speech. I finished the speech up with the ending to Hanna's and Bandit's stories (permanent homes with me) and showed their pictures on the PowerPoint.

It was my most successful speech of the class. I got so much positive feedback from it, my classmates commented on how passionately I delivered the speech. I like to think I made some difference to how some of my classmates will act in the future when they're older and get their own pets.