Today is a very sad day, yesterday we discovered that the house dog, Lady, has an illness called Leishmaniasis. It is transmitted by mosquitos and is very dangerous if passed to humans. Therefore she had to be put to sleep today. Many people loved Lady (many others also disliked the dogs), she was a wonderful gentle dog with the children that should be here and a wonderful fierce guard dog for those that shouldn´t be here. The children in my group found out about this yesterday and they were able to lavish her with love and play lots with her at the park yesterday. many of them were picking flowers for her, to put in her collar, so she had some flowers when she died. Both Josiah and Gideon really benefited from having a dog here when they came, dog´s have a way of relating that goes across languages and cultures. Here is a photo of Gideon chilling with Lady