This is a story I cannot make up my mind about. Was it a positive experience or not?Let me introduce Filippa, 18 years old and lived in this cage for 17 years and 10 months. She had never been out, always on a concrete floor. Her cage friends started to stalk her since they started to understand that her spirit was becoming weak. AWL got their hospice, and Simona and Martina asked me if we could take Fillippa. Of course! It hurt my heart to understand that she was 2 months old when she entered that shelter.
She went to Dr Damiani for a health check up, then to a groomer and later that day to AWL hospice. So much in one day....she was exhausted. Sleep and excellent food, medicine, she slept outside, she slept inside. She didn't understand were she was, or who I was.
After one week, she wagged her tail. She let the puppies eat from her plate, and did nothing. When we tried to lift her up she thought we were the dogs that had tormented her, and she looked like a barracuda when she bit in the air after us. Never to harm, only to defend.
She went to Dr Damiani for a health check up, then to a groomer and later that day to AWL hospice. So much in one day....she was exhausted. Sleep and excellent food, medicine, she slept outside, she slept inside. She didn't understand were she was, or who I was.
After one week, she wagged her tail. She let the puppies eat from her plate, and did nothing. When we tried to lift her up she thought we were the dogs that had tormented her, and she looked like a barracuda when she bit in the air after us. Never to harm, only to defend. She became weaker. My intention is not to keep them alive, my goal is to give them a painless and positive ending.
After one and half weeks at AWL's Hospice, I realized she was getting much weaker. I called the lady who had had her for 17 years and 10 months in her shelter, telling her that now was the time. I carried Fillippa inside Dr Damiani's clinic in her first and only bed she had had in our hospice.
Filippa, finally after so many years --- your whole life --- in captivity you are a free spirit. Enjoy running with the air touching your face. I love you.
5 comments:
Så sorgligt, tårarna bara rinner, men ändå så fint. Jag vet inte hur jag ska skriva för att uttrycka min beundran över dig Mia för vad du gör för djuren. Frukansvärt för henne att behöva sitta inspärrad i så gott som hela sitt liv, men att ändå på slutet få känna på vad riktig kärlek och omtanke är, kanske var det hon gick och väntade på och som du gav henne för att hon i sin tur kunde vandra vidare men ditt budskap inom sig! Kram Maria
I can see how you feel ambivalent about this situation, still a very worthy way to go for her Mia, one that she would not have gotten at the shelter where the other dogs may have hurt her far worse than being lifted at the hospice in her final stages.
Its like some people here in the US who take a dog from a gassing or heart stick shelter to a vet to have the animal euthanized humanely. That is not a positive experience at all, but the right thing to do.
Thanks for all you do
sara
Thank you Maria and Sara, I love you
kram
Mia
Even if you provide hope for a suffering animal that lasts no more than a few days you have ended the torment of that poor soul. You have put the dear creature in a state of peace so when they 'go on' they leave happy. To die with no one around, with no hope is probably where early ideas on hell may have come from. It is no doubt tragic to you as you have had a good life, but never question the saintly work you do, even it is realtively short time of kindness for the dog you have saved. Bless you.
Thanks Craig, I loved your comment and your choice of true words, accept for one thing...I have had a good life. My life have been horrible, I have been to hell. I think that is why I work so hard for the one that doesn't have a voice. No one heard my voice. I recognize those eyes...But the breath of life is many times so difficult.
Bless you for helping us. Thats' Amore
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