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lera buns

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For 47 days, Milo watched every visitor pass his kennel without once coming to the gate. The shelter staff tried treats, toys, and long afternoons sitting quietly outside the door, but he remained near the back wall and waited for each person to leave. He never barked or showed his teeth. He simply followed people with his eyes, alert to every movement but unwilling to come any closer. Milo had been found behind a closed furniture store wearing a faded teal collar with no identification attached. A veterinary examination later confirmed that most of his hearing was gone, so the staff learned to approach where he could see them and use light vibrations on the floor to announce their presence. Milo understood that people were there. He just had no reason to trust them. Then Eleanor Price visited the shelter on a rainy Tuesday afternoon. At 81, she moved slowly through the corridor with one hand resting on the rail and told the receptionist that she was not looking for a puppy. Her apartment was small, her routine was simple, and since the death of her husband the previous year, most of her days had become unusually quiet. She stopped in front of Milo's kennel before anyone had introduced them and watched him for several seconds. "Does he hear anything?" she asked. The volunteer explained his condition. Eleanor nodded and quietly asked everyone nearby to stop calling his name. For more than 30 years, she had taught children with serious hearing loss. She knew that attention could not be demanded and that sometimes the most important thing was simply waiting until someone chose to look at you. Eleanor lowered herself beside the kennel gate and kept her hands still. When Milo finally met her eyes, she raised one open palm and made a slow, simple motion toward herself. Then he stood up. Eleanor did not celebrate or reach through the bars. She held her hand where he could see it and allowed him to decide what happened next. Milo took one step, paused, and then took another. When the gate was opened, he approached with his head held low, smelled Eleanor's palm, and remained there for several seconds before gently resting his muzzle in her hand. Eleanor smiled and softly said hello, even though she knew he could not hear the word. Milo continued watching her face as if the expression mattered more than the sound. She returned the next morning and again two days later. Within a week, Milo had learned three simple hand cues, and within a month, his faded teal collar was hanging beside Eleanor's front door. The shelter had spent weeks calling Milo's name. Eleanor reached him without asking him to hear.

Gabriele Corno

30,028 views • 8 days ago

Mabel had stopped coming to the front of his kennel. For 63 days, the older beagle mix watched families pass from a folded blanket near the back wall, waiting until the hallway emptied before he ate. Whenever someone reached through the gate, he turned his face away. The shelter tried treats, toys, and quiet visits, but nothing convinced him to come closer. Then Owen arrived with a book. He was nine years old and small for his age, with brown hair that never stayed flat. His mother had signed him up for the shelter's Saturday reading hour because he froze whenever he had to read aloud in front of his class. Owen chose Mabel because he was the only dog who didn't bark when the boy sat down. During the first visit, Owen read from the hallway. His voice was so quiet that the volunteer at the desk couldn't understand the words, but one of Mabel's tan ears slowly turned toward him. Owen returned the following Saturday with the same book under his arm. This time, the shelter let him sit inside the small visiting room while Mabel remained against the far wall. Owen opened the book and started again from the first page. By the fourth visit, Mabel ate a treat while Owen read. By the sixth, he had left the blanket and was lying near the water bowl, a little closer to the boy than before. Owen never called him over or tried to touch him. He simply read each page slowly and let Mabel decide how close he wanted to be. The following Saturday, Owen stayed home with a fever. During the usual reading hour, Mabel left his blanket and lay beside the visiting-room door. He remained there until a volunteer switched off the hallway lights. When Owen returned on a rainy Saturday, Mabel stood while the boy was halfway through a chapter. He crossed the room slowly, stopping twice to smell the floor before reaching the blue mat beside Owen's chair. Then Mabel lowered his white muzzle onto the bottom of the book. Owen stopped reading and looked toward his mother. After a moment, he gently placed two fingers behind Mabel's ear and began the sentence again. Mabel stayed beside him until the chapter was finished. Owen's mother returned alone the next morning with a leash and an adoption form covered in her son's careful block letters. That afternoon, Mabel walked through the shelter's front door wearing the same teal collar he had worn for 63 days. At home, Owen continued reading every Saturday. The blue shelter mat was replaced by the end of his bed, and Mabel settled into the same place beside the boy's left knee. The old paperback is still on Owen's shelf. One corner remains bent where Mabel first rested his chin. Has a dog ever learned to trust you simply because you gave him the time to choose?

Gabriele Corno

29,736 views • 7 days ago

May this young man's Soul Rest in Peace. The carnage continues due to unprecedented levels of greed, dereliction of duty, and lack of accountability. The funds are actually there and have been provided over the past decade. The Ministry of Finance Ministry of Finance has released about UGX 100 Billion since 2019 for a Department of Government whose main responsibility and objective should be prevention of road crashes. These funds have been spent on activities with very minimal impact on road safety. This information has been shared with IGG, Office of the Auditor General Uganda, Criminal Investigations Directorate-UPF. How do you explained the death of a young man in a fatal road crash that caused the incineration of the vehicle which he was driving? He must have been driving in one of the best motor vehicles in this country given the wealth of his family. He was driving a motor vehicle which probably had good safety features on a smooth road without pot holes. It is easy to draw conclusions like he was speeding, he was fatigued, he lost control of his motor vehicle, he made errors, e.t.c. Whereas all that may be true, did he deserve to die in such a gruesome way for those errors in judgement? The answer is a BIG NO. The truth is government failed him in so many ways. At the center of modern day road safety management is recognition that errors made by road users (drivers, motorcyclists, cyclist and pedestrians) MUST NOT lead to their demise. Here is a situation he found himself in: Concrete Barriers on a road that encourages high speed. Who has the onus to remove this hazard? Government. I could have perished in the same circumstances a few years back before the completion of the KEE on the way to the Airport. It was a rainy early morning at about 5:00am and I drove through barriers which were made of plastic. So why were these not made of plastic? Was there a provision for lighting on that section? If not, it should have been there. This is what we mean when we say roads should be forgiving. Apart from their design, road sides are the major reference here. The road should have forgiven him for this error if it had plastic reflective barriers. These kind of barriers would have caught his attention and he would have stopped his car instead of killing him. Were the traffic lights functional? Why was there no hazard signage or warning of any sort since there were barriers in middle of the road? This section of the road is built as an expressway and as such encourages speeding especially at any time beyond midnight. There are no traffic calming measures in place yet it is freely used by pedestrians and Boda-Bodaz like any other city road. Roads are supposed to be designed and constructed bearing in mind the activities that take place around them (Land Use). Interventions to control speed must be implemented if there is a high volume of different road users. They would have got his attention and he would not have died. A glaring example of contractors that do not care about road safety is on the section of Kampala-Masaka in the swampy section of Lwera. The Concrete Barriers are there and in places where they are not, there is nothing preventing a motor vehicle falling off into the swamp. Not even a rope. UNTIL THE DAY WHEN THE LEADERSHIP OF THIS COUNTRY ACCEPTS THAT ROAD CRASHES ARE PREVENTABLE AND PARLIAMENT STARTS DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILTY ON ROAD SAFETY, THIS CARNAGE WILL CONTINUE. ACCEPTING THERE IS A PROBLEM IS THE FIRST STEP TO SOLVING IT OR MANAGING IT. TOMORROW IT MIGHT BE ME OR YOU. LETS STOP PAYING LIP SERVICE TO UGANDANS ESPECIALLY ALL THOSE FAMILIES THAT LOSE LOVED ONES IN THIS MESS OF GREED AND LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY. Uganda Police Force Parliament of Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Road And Water Safety ROSAC United Initiative Uganda Limited 🇺🇬 Road Sense Kenya - RSK Brian 4RoadSafety roadsafetypros Road Safety Awareness Initiative (Kenya) Road Safety Alliance UN Road Safety Anita Annet Among Safe Transport and Survivors Support Uganda Legacy Road Safety Initiative (LRSI) Uganda Professional Drivers' Network Percy B Mulamba Munwankyo CISCOT Civil Society Coalition On Transport UG Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area - UDP Office of the Prime Minister - Uganda

Ronald Amanyire

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