27/07/2025
💛🙏🏼HELP FOR HIRI 🙏🏼💛
Hiri (the dog) was spotted in Hiriketiya (the village- see what we’ve done there?! 😏) wandering around with a pretty horrendously-broken jaw 😱😱
We were initally pretty convinced he’d eaten a hakapatas which is a small bomb encased in food that is sometimes put down to maim wild boar (for eating 😔). Street dogs often end up being the victims of these but for whoever stumbles across them- dogs, boars, elephants and even kids- it’s a brutally painful and entirely cruel act that causes an insane amount of suffering. However, due to the lack of soft tissue trauma, we now suspect it is more likely to be the result of a road traffic accident. Either way- not a good time for poor old Hiri 😥 Or for us mugs who have to try and fix it 😬
We’ve got him at the hospital now- thank goodness- and are assessing what to do next. It’s quite a challenging injury with lots of considerations but, in the meantime, he is painfree and resting like he hasn’t slept in a week.
It’s going to take a wee while in terms of recovery, and that’s if we can even manage it (we’re hopeful but never want to jinx it 🫠). Any help at all with his costs would be much appreciated 💛
