Roma was first encountered by one of our members on a public
square downtown where he, a slim black dog, was sitting all day long
and looking confused. Nobody around seemed to know anything about him,
but it became clear from his behavior he was recently abandoned. He
also was too slim to be healthy. However, being full of foster dogs, we
didn’t take care on the same day. There are street dogs everywhere so
one cannot take care of all. Every day our member passed by the square
and the dog was always sitting there sadly; sometimes he was to be seen
to eat some scrap from the street.
After almost one week, our member went to lunch in a small restaurant
close to the square and out of a habit looked out for the dog. But he
was nowhere to be seen! However, an exited crowd of school kids caught
our member’s eye and she was wondering what was going on, when she saw
the crowd of about twenty kids was bending down and seemingly shoving
something on the floor. Uneasy, our member approached the scene and
before he could get a good look at what’s going on he saw a black dog
bursting out of the crowd of kids and running for road. The kids where
after it, throwing bottles and stones after the frightened dog, which
headed for the next road. Before our member was even close enough to do
anything, the dog entered the road and got hit by a passing motor
cycle. It was howling out in pain and finally lying still with a
twisted front leg. The kids gathered around it and some where making
fun of their victim while others were obviously feeling uneasy about
the result of their chase. When our member blamed the kids they quickly
disappeared, but one stated the dog had approached one of the kids
which was eating something, which had caused the aggression against the
stray dog. Parents teach their kids stray dogs would be vermin and
dirty and so no-one can expect kids to treat strays with kindness.
Our member brought the dog, which he later called Roma, to a vet and
the leg was found to be injured but could be treated. Roma’s leg healed
quickly, but when he just seemed to be fine again, Roma got a nasty
internal inflammation which turned out to be very dangerous and even
made a blood transfusion necessary. It was seemingly unrelated to the
accident and the result of the hard life of a stray dog previously.
Roma has now fully recovered and has shiny black fur and looks
beautiful; he is carefully with strangers at first but very friendly
and joyful once he discovered he will get treated well. Please help to
give Roma a new home, where he can feel safe and loved, instead of
almost getting killed only because he was asking for food.
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