Another well, another dog, once again Jimmy

Last Saturday, around 18:30 pm, Dani called me. He is a regular volunteer at Scooby, and a former student of mine. He adopted a dog, named Ruska from the shelter, and while walking Ruska he arrived near a well. Ruska looked into it, and started barking and then a whimper from the well. It happened again: another well, another dog in it, again we were lucky that someone passed by and heard the poor dog. And from there, the rescue operation began. We started calling everyone, and because it was getting late, we had to postponed the rescue until the next day. There we were, firemen, press and us, and as it couldn’t be different, it had to be Jimmy, our private hero, expert in dogs and wells. We began the rescue and when Jimmy had come down only a few meters, he had to come out for a bottle of oxygen due to the presence of gases, death gases coming from the death bodies, mostly dogs, which hadn’t been lucky enough to be heard on time. Once at the bottom, we sent him a cage and he put the alive dog in it. When the dog came to the surface, we took him out, and it turned out to be a small creature of no more than 8 kilos whom, apart being very thirsty, and having some ticks, he perfectly fine. At shelter, we noticed that he suffers from a huge separation anxiety and hates being in a cage. He only wants to be with people, and if he’s in one’s arms it’s much better. He is no more than a year old and will need a family who can dedicate a lot of time to him, probably with kids to tire him, because he has lots of energy.

The well where he was rescued from is about 12 metres deep and is in a pine forest fairly secluded. After sending the dog up, Jimmy looked in the well and confirm us that there were plenty of dead bodies, animals that hadn’t been lucky. I guess that sometime, someone with enough power in this country will order to close down those death wells.

Dogs and wells, an unfortunate combination, and in this country there are too many wells. Thank God from time to time, luck will allow some dogs to be heard, and that we can count on Jimmy to rescue them, but I don’t even want to think at the thousands and thousands of wells spread all over the country, with no one to take a walk near them. Thanks Jimmy, and if someone powerful in this country ever reads this, please, lets close down these gas chambers of the XXI century, so typical, and on the other hand, so dangerous.

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