Jo Mathers 💙 🇺🇦

I feed dogs in all sorts of places. The street dogs gravitate to human areas where they might get some food and company. It’s hard to believe but a family of 5 live here in this shack. They look after dogs for me. Pamela, Poppy, Puppy and Pablo have chosen to live under their house. I bring the medicines and food and the kids provide the play and love. The kids always greet me with a bow and a smile and the mum thanks me every single day. The reaction I get outside big villas or expensive resorts is often the complete opposite. I’m often shunned, given death stares or even shouted at. Dogs are very shrewd judges of character. These people might not have many material possessions but the dogs can see beyond that. The street dogs rarely play as they are so on edge but when I drive up to this shack they are often playing. That tells you all you need to know 🥰🙏

This is the happiest story you could Imagine. Months in the making. None of these street dogs should be here today given how they started. Yet I sit writing this absolutely floored to see them off… 🏡 5 dogs headed off to their forever homes. King Whacker, Moritz, Num, Brad Pitt and Rodney. ✈️ They’ll travel to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇸 🤕 They all arrived as streets dogs close to death. They leave fully healthy and with wonderful lives ahead of them 🚌 The first leg takes them to Bangkok. They have company on the journey to ease them in. That part is 15 hours alone. 🥹 I said all week I’d be fine. This is part of it. Today I was all efficient and organizing bits. As soon as I sat down tonight it just hit me like a wave. They’ve gone forever. I’ve been through the mill with those dogs and held them close to death and had sleepless nights with them. I’m so so happy and they are set for life but I also miss them dearly already. 🐕 I’m especially close to King Whacker. He was always the top dog in the pack. The boss. But he’s also a sensitive soul. The rest had no idea what was going on today but he knew. He knew that there was a big change of his circumstances. I tried to explain he’ll be in heaven with a new forever family in Glasgow. I’ll visit him one day 100%. 🥰🙏 I didn’t know you could mix such profound happiness and pride along with such a feeling of sadness. Their lives are all changed forever though and that’s all that matters. 🐶 Most importantly there are 5 free spots now for the next dogs who need them and there are always plenty of those. ✅ Proud. Happy. Sad. Tired Have a lovely weekend everybody 🥰