Afterwards

Well Mom is at home today and she is helping me with my work. First of all  I want to tell you mom has been doing all kinds of stuff with Kinship Circle. They have been in Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis and Sao Jose. They have seen some terrible stuff.. Teresopolis is the worst. We were so lucky here. There are still many flood victim dogs out there awaiting rescue. Kinship Circle is going to try to get some of them today. Every day more turn up and in terrible states because now maggots are infesting their wounds. We saw Bonnie with maggots, but this is worse. They have seen a dog whose tail dropped off, another whose leg dropped off, and this poor baby whose face was eaten away eye and all.

  I think I will have nightmares from now on! mom said that this poor dog actually wagged his tail while the humans were treating him. My God! A doctor from Rio de Janeiro has adopted him. He is one of the lucky ones. Also whilst checking out Nova Friburgo with Kinship Circle the team saw this. This was someone's home. This family were luckier than Nicki's because they got out alive, but their two pet dogs tied up on chains were not so lucky. They are buried under this rubble.

Most of the world has now forgotten the Brazilian floods except for all of us creatures and humans who live within the disaster zone. The misery and pain continues. I think of all the other dogs and animals out there just like me. We just want a quiet life with a good human mom or dad. This really was not fair! Well onto something happier.

This is Nicki. She has cheeed up a lot since the first days. She still remembers and misses her human family from Teresopolis. They used to rub her tummy like this too! She loves it! She has started to talk to us now. She was a mom once or twice herself. It must have been real hard work with that bad leg. She told us about her accident and the pain her bad leg gave her. We think she will be okay now that she is getting used to her routine and the humans here.

She looks beautiful relaxing here. Mom and Dad are still trying to work out a way to survive in Brazil and make money after three failed business ventures. It is difficult. They are very worried about our little slice of Heaven here. They have to find a way for all of us to stay together. Dad had to close the bakery after the disaster. There was no electrcity for days and no way to travel there for over a week. It made a loss every week and they decided to close it and try something else. When they had paid up all the outstanding bills there was very little left. They don't know what they will do!