30 days left

We have just been informed we have 30 days only and then we are destitute and on the streets with the whole pack. 30 days is nothing. Mom is in shock as the reality of our disaster hits home. We have nowhere to go and no money to rent anywhere whatsoever. The vital sale never happened for us! We will soon be a memory to everyone except ourselves.

Mom knew she shouldn't have gone out today!

Mom decided to pop out for half an hour today because she has been stuck in the house most of the week. So,, mom and Dad drove to the nearest town just down the river about three miles away. They bought some bread and turned around to come back. On the way back they crossed a bridge and mom noticed some puppies on a rock stranded. They drove behind the river up a dirt road to get to the other river bank. Mom and dad started to descend to the river when a lady and her son also turned up to descend the to river bank. She said that she heard the puppies barking at night and saw them earlier. There were more at that point but they must have fallen in the river. Well they all climbed down the river bank and found three puppies. Mom asked the lady if she was going to keep them and she said 'No'. She intended to leave them in town on the streets, so at least they wouldn't drown. So,have  Mom and Dad decided to take them home and put them in the adoption fair in two weeks run by our friends in Teresopolis, Puppies are usually quite adoptable. So now Mom and Dad got even more work to do with three more to feed and clean up after. Phew!

And here they are eating and safe

Update on Daisy the Little White dog

Here is Daisy waiting to see a vet. Dad is home now so we heard the full story. She had lived around a group of houses for a long time. Everybody knew her. She used to chase motor cycles and the riders used to kick her as she snapped after them. She was run over twice by vehicles. She also had many fights with other dogs in the street. The people from this small community kept her going with food nobody could afford a vet and they all came out of their houses and cheered when Dad took her away to the vets. Someone said God will Bless him and others said God will help him. We hope so! We have faith and we will get there in the end. Daisy had two litters of pups and one litter was seven males. Nobody is sure what happened to all those pups who are long gone. The vet hasn't seen her yet she will be seeing her about now. She had to have a bath and shave because she was so matted. She is very dirty with ticks and fleas too.

She look s just so sad and forlorn neglected and in need of serious love. We are hoping the leg can be repaired but in most cases we have seen they end up permanently crippled like Nicki.

This is the lady that does the grooming or Banho e Tosse as they say here.

That is the ladies assitant not mom watching.

When a lot of the matted fur came off we had a big surprise.

This is amazing. The dog is black and white not cream coloured. The white was so dirty it went beige and the black looked like oil or more like dirt. So folks when you see a black and white dog it's her not an imposter. She is going to have blood tests for tick disease and other things and probably an x ray to see if anything can be done about her mangled leg. Well folks one more for the pack. She seems like a real sweet dog she didn't bite anyone bathing her or helping her. We think she will be a super happy baby one day. She is still very frightened and doesn't know whats going on but once she gets out of the clinic, if she doesn't have distemper she will begin a new life with love. We have a lot of worries but we are still so happy to have saved one more. Each one counts and there is some happiness in rescue work. Believe me I have seen it! 

Daisy is off the Streets

It took nearly a week to find her again but here she is and it really was a girl.We were told by some people where she sleeps. They were good people and sometimes fed her. They said she got run over by a car twice. She has problems with both back legs. They also said she had two litters of puppies. So We guess she must be at least 18 months old. She is going straight to a vet where she will stay until we see if she has distemper or not and to give mom and dad some time to raise money for her care. She will have to be vaccinated, treated, groomed, spayed, wormed and possible surgery if it's not too late on her leg that is knuckled under. What a joyful moment finding her and knowing she will get the vet care she needs at the very least. As you all know our future is in the balance but we are trying to keep the family together even if we have to pitch a tent somewhere.

She is such a cutie.

Both legs have been injured and the wounds haven't fully healed.

Who could resist this little face?

 Well one more now.

This is the spinning dog or Rodador as he is named at the Terseopolis shelter run by Estimacao. He is the dog Mom wanted to take and work with. He had distemper and suffered neurological damage. The vet doesn't think he will get better, but mom wanted to try because obviously no one will adopt him. He walks straight on a lead and when occupied he stops. Mom read that sometimes there is a great improvement if you work with them during the first year after the sickness. He has already lost months of therapy. It makes us so angry that no dog lover wold back us to help these special cases. Here we are fighting for survival instead of doing what we are good at, It is really a great loss of potential and an even greater loss for all the dogs that we could help if we had some backing. We like this dog a lot and have known him for a while. He could of had quality of ,individual attention and therapy and a friend to play with to distract him, if things hadn't gone so wrong. Mom has a programme for him all worked out in her head. Instead of that she has to worry about how to eat, I guess that what you humans call capitalism. Doesn't seem to work well for me from a dogs point of view. Below is a picture of him for someone special that I know who can't watch videos and follows our blog, Hi G! Sorry you can't see the video but this picture is for you. This dog reminds us so much of a puppy we gave away actually Pebble's puppy one of her four. His name was Bounty.

Here he is still circling with a very old dog that was lucky enough to get a real good owner today. It was one of the volunteers who we know well. He will be happy.

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Little Dog

The little street dog is still out there some where. Dad has been looking every day for two days now that we have found a vet to take her/him. Now we have a vet but not the dog. We are really hoping the dog is okay still. Three days ago it was still around. Dad waited until lunchtime from early this morning and then had to go to Teresopolis to help transport four dogs. He took a video of the cute little spinning dog. Mom will post this here when he comes home. Meanwhile Mom is avoiding all calls from Sao Paulo central bank is trying to contact us.  The hour is approaching and everybody is very nervous. We are trying not to think about it right now.

Sunday

Well we are still here. The littlle dog is still out there somewhere. There hasn't been any change and we haven't managed to sell the house. We did manage to sell some more personal stuff but are vastly short of keeping things going including food which is very frightening. Mom did manage to make a new webpage with a chipin in English. She won't know if it works or not until someone tries it. This page was created to raise the $3000 for the registred charity status to go through. Mom was hoping that might improve the situation at least they could campaign in Brazil as well. It is already and if they had the money it would be up and running in two to three weeks time. They had many promises of help if they could become registered as a charity. She is not too enthusiastic because doantions come in very slowly here. Any way address of new chipin is

http://dogsinbrazil.yolasite.com/

Little Street dog Video Thursday

We fed and gave water to the poor little dog but still haven't found anywhere for the dog to stay for the three week quarantine period. At least she is eating and hopefully will hang around until we resolve something for him/her we still haven't managed to see. She is a very sad girl but next we have a video of a very happy boy. Remember this.

Well Guga or Mr Happy is all settled in and loving his new life. He is literally rolling over with happiness watch this video.

He is just so darn cute and hardly a tooth in his mouth!

Little Dog

Vets are saying three weeks quarantine for her not sure how we will resolve this no one has quarantine and most people don't vaccinate their pets. OMG

Little Dog Found

Little dog is with a shop keeper but no vet will take him/her because of distemper epidemic here still trying