Rio
Rio Kamodia is a very handsome INDog-mix from Mumbai. His human Mallika wrote to me about him last week. His story begins very sadly, but he is one of those lucky few who found a really loving, understanding family! (When you've finished reading the story please read my footnote at the end). Rio was about one month old when his mother was brutally beaten to death by a watchman, somewhere in the Powai area. The man had hit her really hard on the head with a thick wooden stick, because she peed on the tyre of a car. Her poor puppy was found shaking and shivering, totally traumatised and all alone, next to his dead mother. An American girl who was living there at the time saw him and felt really sorry for him. So she picked him up and took him home. I belong to a lot of non-profit rescue groups in Mumbai, and I foster animals too whenever possible. This girl posted a foster appeal for the pup on Facebook, as she was leaving for Hyderabad that very night. I saw the appeal ...