It had been days and still I continued to watch the animals from afar, not gathering up enough courage to approach them. Most had already learned of my return from town, but they treated me just the same as they acted the same way towards me that they always had; pretended I wasn’t there. Another thing that I found as I made my way around the farm was that there were quite a few familiar faces missing. Of course I had already heard of Snowball’s infamous departure years ago but I found that there were many other animals that had disappeared. Not only were there various sheep, hen and geese that seemed to have disappeared, even a couple of pigs were gone! With further investigation I found that the animals missing had confessed countless acts of treason towards the pigs. Some had only committed petty acts such as stealing a few extra ears of corn whereas others had done the unimaginable and were spies for Snowball. Napoleon's newfound fleet of trained dogs had slaughtered the perpetrators in seconds and had done so for anyone who admitted to a crime. The dogs were vicious and followed Napoleon around whenever he went out, which I noticed wasn’t very often. They guarded the house as well. So, I thought, not only did the animals appear miserable and overworked, they were also being slaughter for trivial matters. What happened to Animal Farm, the place where the animals planned to rule themselves and make everything fair?