I just want to take a second and thank everyone that commented on the #savebones post. I had over 5 people email me that live in Tegucigalpa that offered to adopt bones. It truly warms my heart and restores some of the faith that I lost in humanity this morning... As you know from my previous posts bones was a ferrel dog that was locked in the schoolyard at the mission site in the mountains about 5 hours outside of teguc. He was emaciated, covered in hundreds of ticks, and so weak he could barely walk. Myself, Bethany and Stacy decided to take him in as our baby and nurse him back to health. The vet on our team supplied us with flea and tick meds and de wormer. We fell in love with him and he fell in love with us too. I found him a leash and a harness and he went everywhwre with us. Even to the clinic when we were seeing patients. From the first day that we started to help bones we were met with a lot of negativity from some of the other missionaries from Mississippi and the US on the trip. We were told dont pet him that we would get a disease and he was disgusting. We were ridiculed for making him a bed out of our sleeping bags and for feeding him from our hands and plates. I spent a lot of time trying to find internet service and research what we needed to do to have him fly back with us. Due to airline regulations over vaccinations etc we werent able to get him a ticket. However, one of the translators graciously agreed to foster him for 30 days while we worked out the paperwork and or looked for an adoptive parent in teguc. We had it approved by the team leader and the vet that he could travel back with us to the city so he could go home with the translator. We woke up early this morning. Cleaned him up. Fed him mildly sedated him and got him ready to travel. As we were walking up to the bus we were yelled at by the bus driver an employee of BMDMI and told that the other missionaries on the bus didnt want to ride with the nasty dog. We were outnumbered by far and left with no option but to leave him at the school yard. I had a few seconds after we were told he could no longer ride with us to bring him back inside the gates and ask one of the locals to please feed him and watch over him. He agreed. It is very disheartening to be around people that would rather leave the animal to die than to have him in their presence for 5 hours. But it is also very eye opening. The response I got from you guys shows me that we are not alone in compassion and for animals. I am heart broken that we were forced to leave bones but I also can say that he is much healthier now that he has had some medical treatment and love. My hope is that by us showing kindness to him during the week and also showing the villagers how to be kind and take care of him that it will catch on. A seed has been planted and I hope it grows. Thanks again for all of the response... And thank you to our translator Andrea for offering to foster bones.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:21:17 +0000
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