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Apr 20, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read Read on X
I feed 80 street dogs every day but the last stop is my favorite because I get to see little Angelina Jolie.

She’s a very very old girl who has lived on the streets her whole life but she is very special (1/6) 🧵 Image
She lives beside a little shop in the jungle. She’ll either be sleeping either under the car or just beside the road waiting.

Angelina is very vocal and likes to tell me she’s happy about her food delivery. Her voice makes me so happy (2/6)
The food is secondary for Angelina. She does love it but only after I sit and give her and her old best friend Bob 5 minutes attention.

I’m not sure who is happier to see who. Me or Angelina. But why leave her on the street? (3/6)

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The answer is she did come in one time for 2 weeks after she got badly attacked by another rogue street dog. I had to get her all fixed up.

She absolutely HATED being at the land. She cried all day every day and injured herself trying to escape by chewing the metal bars (4/6)
She got more and more frantic at the land. She was always trying to run away. We see this sometimes with street dogs. Angelina was a home bird. She’s about 10 and she’d lived her whole life in that spot on the street. She couldn’t get back there quickly enough once better (5/6)
Angelina has food. Medicines. A best friend. Water. Her safe place to live. And I clean her eyes for her every day.

I know she’s happy because she tells me so every day. A wonderful girl and my favorite stop. See her sets me up for the day ahead (6/6)

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Mar 1
A little update on Jimmy who we found hit by a truck on Thursday after a hit and run.

There’s actually some good news… (1/9) 🧵 Image
Jimmy’s mum was very upset. She had no idea how to deal with it all. She hadn’t been able to move him such was his pain.

We got Jimmy to the vet. Sadly his spine has been broken. The good news is there was no internal damage (2/9) Image
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The initial outlook was exceptionally bad. No reflexes in his legs. Zero.

Given that Jimmy was 10 years old I already started preparing the bad news for his owner.

Myself and the vet could see zero hope. (3/9)
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Feb 26
This is Candy a tiny puppy I found in the jungle with 3 legs.

Her road to recovery has been long but beautiful to watch.

Today was a very special day for this little girl. The best day of her life… (1/8) 🧵 Image
We found her and her and other puppies on a building site. They have been threatened with poisoning and had rocks thrown at them.

They hid under these metal sheets (2/8)
Candy had an injury when young. We believe she ate her own leg off to save it from the infection.

That’s how she ended up with 3 legs but it never stopped her (3/8)
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Feb 20
Snickers is the street dog who brought me a present every morning as I arrived to feed her.

Today we were able to give her the gift of a lifetime. We just waved her off to her forever home in America… (1/8) 🧵 Image
Every single morning as I arrived with the food delivery she would hear the bike coming and prepare a gift.

This went on for a whole year. The gifts were always extremely well thought out (2/8) Image
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My whole philosophy is to feed the street dogs and keep them healthy on the streets. I can’t re-home them all.

But snickers just kept on bringing me gifts so I cracked and brought her in to get her adopted (3/8)
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Feb 19
This was me 4 years ago. I was in ICU in hospital as I’d just nearly drunk myself to death.

I’d been an alcoholic and suffered depression and anxiety for over 25 years.

I’m completely sober now and wanted to share some learnings that may help someone (1/8) 🧵 Image
If you’ve tried quitting before and keep failing don’t give up.

I must have had 1000 attempts at quitting alcohol and Valium. It’s never too late.

I was 41 and miserable in life and didn’t want to go on. Keep trying no matter how hard it seems (2/8) Image
There is nothing worse in the world for depression and anxiety than alcohol.

I can’t stress enough how much worse it makes it even if there is a quick short term gain.

I still suffer small bouts of depression and anxiety but it’s 5% of what it was with booze involved (3/8) Image
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Feb 17
This is our newest arrival.

Got a call about her at 6am this morning about a big dog in trouble on the streets.

She’s in a bad way but I’m hopeful we can help her. There were some very surprising discoveries… (1/8) 🧵 Image
This was the video I was greeted with at 6am. She is a local community dog who had just collapsed and stopped moving.

Locals were very worried (2/8)
I found her outside 7-11 pretty immobile. We got her straight to the vets.

⚖️ 80 lbs (huge)
🩸 Sugar issues with blood
🐜 Blood parasites

We got her to the vets really just in time I believe as she’s been struggling to breath (3/8) Image
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Feb 10
We have a new rescue today. He is a little puppy in a very bad way.

Luckily his life has already started to turn around.

This is little Leonardo’s story… (1/8) 🧵 Image
We got a message about him. He lives out near some shacks in the middle of the jungle.

I don’t think he is older than about 7 months (2/8)
The poor little guy is in agony.

He’s never really been around humans so we had to take it gentle with him.

We normally let them decompress but he needed treatment… (3/8) Image
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