Dogs in Brazil

17/02/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. A quiet day today! Lenny left his restricted area and we noted only one leg is working perfectly well the other leg he puts it down every few minutes. We are hoping it’s just a slight hitch as the knee seems stable and she puts it down every few steps. We will continue walking her on the leash and observing. She has grown a lot since arriving here over two months ago. Today the heat here was worse indoors it reached 98.6 F or 37 C. Down below in Rio it is dangerously hot. Tomorrow we are going out to try and buy two more fans. Most shops are apparently out of stock as the heat wave continues. Strangely there has not been any rain or storms for the last couple of days. Lenny is a real sweet young dog. Hoping she will get full use to weight bear on the leg. We will try PT if her looks good on the xrays that we will get done. As it’s her first time walking we will hold back and see what happens. Posting Valentina next. Please donate to [email protected] via PayPal to help.

17/02/2025

Good Morning from Brazil. Thanks to everone we have met the 100 GBP match. Special thanks to Baines and her friends. Have a great day!

15/02/2025

We have a 100 GBP match to meet. Please donate to meet this match from the lovely Julie Baines and friends. Thank you so much. Donations via PayPal [email protected]

15/02/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. Yesterday I was too tired to post anything. We took Honey and Mia for spay surgery. The surgeries went well. Both dogs a bit depressed but that is normal. Our new puppy Valentina is doing really well. She is free of fleas and ticks and dewormed today. She is quite a feisty puppy. She seems to have terrier in her. It’s extremely hot here at the moment. Hitting the 90s and it’s unbearable. Everything seems like a huge effort in this heat. At the moment all the dogs are sleeping. Please donate to [email protected] for more happy stories.

12/02/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. Yet another young puppy thrown away like rubbish. The guy narrating this sad situation is appalled. There was no food for her to eat, someone did put some water there. He eventually contacted us. He works for us. We are totally full and cannot afford another stray. The dog still has all her baby teeth. She was totally infested with fleas and ticks. There are even ticks deep in her ears. She had a flea bath, but will need another tomorrow. We will be applying meds to sort this out and due to the huge number of ticks she will have to take doxycycline as a precaution. There were hundreds of ticks. She is quiet and calm and was surely going to die either from all those parasites or run over as she is on the side of the road. She is a tiny terrier type dog with wire hair. I am going to post her before video first then her day here. Please donate and help us think of a name for her. She is around three kilos only and will not grow very big. She has a gorgeous little face. She had to be saved from a horrible life. Please donate to [email protected] via paypal to help with this soul.

12/02/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. Yet another young puppy thrown away like rubbish. The guy narrating this sad situation is appalled. There was no food for her to eat, someone did put some water there. He eventually contacted us. He works for us. We are totally full and cannot afford another stray. The dog still has all her baby teeth. She was totally infested with fleas and ticks. There are even ticks deep in her ears. She had a flea bath, but will need another tomorrow. We will be applying meds to sort this out and due to the huge number of ticks she will have to take doxycycline as a precaution. There were hundreds of ticks. She is quiet and calm and was surely going to die either from all those parasites or run over as she is on the side of the road. She is a tiny terrier type dog with wire hair. I am going to post her before video first then her day here. Please donate and help us think of a name for her. She is around three kilos only and will not grow very big. She has a gorgeous little face. She had to be saved from a horrible life. Please donate to [email protected] via paypal to help with this soul.

09/02/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOoLtdH5qSw Rescue goes on with pics or not. We are here everyday looking after them.

Dogs in Brazil is an animal shelter based in Teresopolis, Brazil. Founders, Jan and Carlos Cabral have been rescuing Brazilian street dogs since 2001 with th...

09/02/2025

Good Morning from Brazil. I am still awaiting the repair of my camera so pictures are scarce. I came across this picture this morning of Harley. He died quite a while ago. He was just the sweetest dog. We will never forget little Harley.

01/02/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. There was yet another huge storm here. Laura will be having an ultra sound tomorrow as there is no real way to pinpoint what is going on with her. It could be liver or spleen problems or leukemia or something else entirely. Her platelets are low, she has serious anemia, something is very definitely wrong. We spent the entire day transferring apps, contacts, etc to the new phone. We had to go to the bank as well so our banking apps were set up. The bank of course was packed as it is the end of the month. My camera has been repaired and Sunday or Monday we will travel to Nova Friburgo to collect it. Then perhaps we can get some peace away from all the technology problems we have had lately. Millie is still indoors on our veranda recovering from surgery. Lenny is doing well has got past the two month restrictive space point but we feel we should give her another month and our vet agrees just to be sure she doesn’t go mad and ruin the surgery. She is very electric and agitated and we can’t take chances we need the bones to be really calcified and strong to be sure. Frank is nearly all healed up as well. Lenny, Frank, Cacau, Syd, Donna, Dylan all need kennels. That is another problem we have to face. There are two kennels underway, but going slowly as we are short staffed. This part of the post was written yesterday just before a big storm kicked in and we were without internet all night and part of the morning. Today we know more about Laura’s situation. She has a liver problem, an enlarged spleen and an enlarged pancreas. Not enough info to define the cause yet after extensive tests. Our vet still thinks it could be leukemia. We are treating the liver and other problems with medications and hope that if the liver gets better the spleen and pancreas will calm down. She still ate today and doesn’t seem in pain. She is just very thin at the moment. We have to wait and see how she reacts to the meds. If any would like to donate to help with medical costs please donate to [email protected] via paypal.

30/01/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. Yesterday we had to cancel Laura’s vet appointment, but we took her today. She is definitely anemic. We are awaiting extensive blood results, which haven’t arrived yet. Laura arrived as an abandoned puppy in May 2014 so she is eleven now. Apart from the anemia there are no visible signs of what is wrong except that she is losing weight rapidly but she is eating normally, so we wait to see the results. They may come later tonight or tomorrow. Other than that the day was normal. We were short staffed again. The usual storm started around 4pm and it’s still raining now. Millie is doing okay since having a gland removed yesterday. Its monsoon and rain is almost daily. The continual rain makes working conditions difficult. Please donate as the end of the month is always difficult. Please PayPal [email protected] to help.

28/01/2025

Another sad day here! We awoke to find Ivan one of the baby goats born here was found dead this morning. He was born in September 2023. Three goats were born two females and a male. He will be missed by us and his small family will probably miss him too. He is now buried with all the departed DIB dogs. We had to take Millie to the vet clinic too as she had what looked like a tumor near her a**s. We were quite worried as she is getting old now. Luckily it wasn’t a tumor it was an enlarged gland, which our vet removed. She is recovering now on our veranda wearing a cone. Tomorrow we will be back at the clinic Laura a Puppy we had in Granja Florestal, the house before we moved here a decade ago is not well. She eats but doesn’t gain weight and is very thin now. We will get blood tests done and find out what is going on. She has been treated for tick disease, so we can rule that out. There is another storm brewing here. It’s distant and we are hoping it doesn’t make it to here. Please donate to [email protected] as we have two vet visits to pay for tomorrow. Next on the list is Dylan’s ear that we had to postpone as he got another infection. He needs surgery on his ear hole that is all that is left of his ear. We are still up to our eyes in work doing dressings on several dogs daily and vet visits.

22/01/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. Good News we have met the triple match total and matched the $675 USA target. We actually surpassed it slightly. We have been out all day in another town (Nova Friburgo) sorting out the defect in my camera. The guy is a Nikon Technician. He said there was a lot of dirt on both lens and fungus growing due to the fact that it’s so humid here and I always kept it in the bag it came with. Apparently it needs ventilation. He explained to me how it should be stored in a plastic box with air vents. None of this I knew anything about. He is going to try and clean it all and will charge me 858 reais ( 145 USA) and we had to get extra gas to travel there and extra staff. It was a long day and there was a terrible storm as we made our way back. I should be able to collect the camera next week. We will be back to making films and taking pictures then. It’s great news that there is still life in the camera yet. We could not afford to buy another one, so it was really good news. We still have the problem of Carlos without a phone to resolve. The good thing as well was we didn’t see any dogs at all as the storm was huge. We had hail beating on the car and thought it would be full of dents. All the stray dogs must have been taking cover. Thank you all who stood up and donated. We cannot thank you enough.

21/01/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. We have an anonymous donor who sent me this:
I have an idea!! Let me do a New Year TRIPLE match today! I will TRIPLE match all donations up to $2,025 (our "2025 New Year"!). If you can get $675 in donations, I will donate the other $1,350. That will total 2025. COOL!
The match starts now and Thank you to our kind donor. As soon as we have $675 USA come in then we will get the remaining $1350 USA which would be great. Please donate to help get us there. It’s an amazing opportunity. Please donate to [email protected] to help dogs like Dexter blind and abandoned. At this Moment we are $477.69 USA away from goal. Thank you those who have donated.

20/01/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. It was a regular day. It was very hot and looks like stormy weather coming in. Tomorrow we have to drive to Nova Frigurgo, where we used to live to try and resolve my broken camera. There is nobody here that does camera repairs. Carlos has no phone as his charger won’t charge the phone and my cell phone has a defect too and takes terrible pictures. Content has been badly affected, so we will make the long journey and leave in the morning hoping the camera can be repaired. Hopefully it’s something simple and can be repaired the same day. The shop is about 50 miles from here. The dogs are all doing okay, just small problems, but seems to be nothing serious. We have some extra help tomorrow as we will be out all day. I worry when we have to be out of the shelter for long periods of time. Please don’t forget us and please donate to [email protected] Even though we are unable to take photos expenses go on. Hopefully we won’t have to come back with a stray sick dog as the town where we are going is loaded with strays. Posting a picture of Benny adopted by a vet specializing in PT who met our little Benny many years ago whilst doing his PT. His sister GIGI is still with us. Benny was born with deformed legs and this vet fell in love with him. Many of you may remember him and his sister abandoned. He looks old now too. I guess we all do. Benny regained some mobility and goes to the clinic where she works with her every day. The last picture is Benny now. All of the other dogs this lady had have passed over. The cane toads are all out, so dogs can’t go out as they are poisonous. The puppies here all go for them. Have a good evening all. Thank you all for your support.

16/01/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. We have been busy with multiple new dogs. We have multiple dogs that needing dressings and meds and are still short staffed. It’s exhausting at the moment trying to keep up. My camera is broken as well and no shop here in Teresopolis that does repairs on cameras. We don’t have time to go to Nova Friburgo with all the stuff to do here. We don’t even know yet if there is such a shop there yet. There is a severe lack of content here at the moment. Carlos has a cell phone that is broken at the same time. The battery doesn’t charge itself anymore and the phone came from Miami in the USA. It’s a Blu phone and they are made with the battery sealed in. It lasted years, but has died now. If we could find a battery then the repair guy says he can open it up and put the battery in. The battery is swelling up every time he tries to charge it and they said it was in danger of it exploding. Problems we have many here right now. We spent hours trying to resolve the cell phone problem today. I have spent hours trying to find out how to do a factory reset on the camera. I am no good with technology. It could be that the camera has just had its life span I have taken over 40,000 photos and films with it. It seems that when things break it’s always in threes. That is what people in England say. It seems right, so I am dreading what the next thing to breakdown will be. All our new dogs are doing okay Frank, Honey and Dylan still on daily dressings. Buster who is aggressive is on Diazepam until he calms down. Dexter is doing well although he did bite one of our workers. They didn’t know how to approach him he needs someone to talk to him before touching him because he is blind and in a new environment. He actually very loving, if you know how to approach him. Lenny is still on restrictive movement only for her two broken knees. She is a puppy and dying to get running, but cannot yet. Star is awaiting her chance to go to a kennel we have to think where she will go and make changes. We haven’t had time yet. I have medical tests to do for over a month and haven’t had time yet. Dylan is awaiting surgery, but the infection needs to heal completely before surgery. This is rescue on the front lines. We have also lost quite a few of our oldies that left us heart broken to cope with. Please donate to [email protected] If you would like to help us.

07/01/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. We went down the road to buy some groceries at the local shop and during this time a member of staff called us to say that there was a dog outside the gate. We rushed back to see what was wrong with the dog. He is an old dog and has a hole in his flank full of maggots. He also has fly eggs stuck around his eye that would have developed into maggots to eat his eyes. He has taken meds for the maggots and the eggs near his eye will die as soon as the hatch. Tomorrow we will bathe him. He has ticks and is very thin. He seems very calm and laid back. People in the street confirmed the dog was not from around here. We would have noticed him if he was. Meanwhile the battle here goes on. It never stops. Last month we took in multiple dogs and just seven days into the month some coward dropped their dog off outside of our gate. He then waited for help. Must have heard the dogs barking and knew this was his chance. Of course when an abandoned dog arrives at your door it is impossible to say ‘No”. Here he is we decided to call him Frank. Nice old dog that without help would have been eaten by maggots and died of starvation. Please donate to [email protected] Thank you to all who do donate. Frank needs help. We don’t have space for one more. He needs meds for tick disease, vaccination, and deworming to start with. He will then need a permanent kennel as at his age it’s unlikely he will travel.

02/01/2025

Good Evening from Brazil. Another long day after the dog abandoned nearly a month ago in the forest. It’s pure luck he wasn’t killed by an Onca, which apparently is a jaguar. I thought it was a puma when I googled it Google said they are jaguars. Anyway they kill dogs. The new dog is limping with a back leg in the air. We will give meds and see if it gets better. Hopefully it isn’t another surgery. The rescue was traumatic. The dog has obviously been mal treated and is now fearful. We went with a team of help. One guy from Petropolis got bitten badly as he tried to secure the dog. His hand and torso took several bites, but he didn’t let go.He went straight to the hospital as he was bleeding badly. We all ran to help and managed to get the dog in the trap and secure him. Another young lady that came with us took a superficial bite and we dropped her off for a rabies jab. Rescue isn’t for the faint hearted. The dog isn’t really aggressive he just panicked. He was interacting with people all the time we was there, but just didn’t want to be touched. With time we believe he will calm down. He is in a kennel now and doesn’t attack if you go in the kennel. With time he will realize nobody is going to hurt him. We couldn’t leave him there not where the big cats are and the road is busy. He crossed it many times just getting missed by trucks and cars. The entire rescue took all day. We arrived home at 5pm. Well at least he is now safe. That’s how rescue goes. Please donate to [email protected] if you would like to help. What a day that was!

31/12/2024

Good Evening from Brazil. It’s been a long day. We left the house early and picked up a friend a protector of animals. She knew where the dog was. She was captured in the trap last night and transferred to a person who could keep her safely until today. We got there around 11am. It was a long drive. When we got there the people that tried to rescue her for the last few weeks told us about a puppy who was abandoned with her siblings nearby. Her two brothers were run over and killed. She was the only one left. They implored us to take her. We took her with us as well as the injured dog. Just couldn’t leave her to die. She is very thin and very scared. So we ended up rescuing two lost souls in one go. The female with the back wound is here we started treatment on her back. She has another wound probably caused by a bite wound. She too is scared of humans. Without the trap she would not have been saved. It’s a real battle here always more dogs. It’s a harsh culture for a dog as we drove through the interior of Brazil the full horror was exposed. Dogs everywhere it was deserted except for plantations and stray dogs. Well two more souls saved. We can’t afford it but had to do it. It’s so bad and horrible to turn your back on animals in hopeless situations and both of these rescues were there. It’s not easy by any means. The responsibility is huge. Please donate if you can these two dogs need a lot of care. Worming, vaccinations, spay surgery, and most importantly a kennel and food. Tomorrow we need to rescue another dog down the mountain. He is still alive in an area full of big cats and is small. Hoping he doesn’t fall prey to a predator. It never stops here. Please donate to help the two and possibly one more tomorrow. The fireworks have started as the re****ed people have started with them early. Doesn’t help we have two new dogs both frightened. These idiots don’t understand the impact of their stupidity. Sorry all our pics were rubbish. It's late will be back tomorrow. Donate to [email protected]