09/28/2026
Venezuelan Simba is in El Paso!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU Erik, the kind-hearted truck driver who made the long journey and delivered him safely! Aaaaaaand, thank you to Erik’s lovely wife Marisol Gonzalez of Finding Meadows: Pet Rescue Team who helped arrange this!
I can’t even begin to express the RELIEF I feel having my “ahijado” (his family named him my godson) here where we can care for him while we wait to plan next steps in eventually reuniting him with his beloved family after they are deported.
Speaking of which, I called to leave Yurimar another message today after calling the Dilley detention facility for 4 days and leaving her messages with no call back and she finally called me back while we were at Josie’s house (Josie is our amazing team member who will be fostering him).
Of course, Yurimar was extremely relieved and grateful to know he’s here. She shared that no one at the ICE detention facility gave her any of my 4 messages I had left. She also shared that she and her two children need money in their commissary account for soap and necessities so I’ll be using donations to send that tomorrow.
Simba is very skinny and has clearly lost weight from all the heart break and changes, but I’m confident he’ll put on weight at Josie’s; he’s already having fun playing with his 3 new foster siblings! ❤️ He is currently snoozing 💤 with a full belly of Josie’s homemade dog food. Pupdates on his progress and story to come!
Thank you again to all who have helped me with Simba, especially My Dog Is My Home, People, Britt in FL, and Lorraine G Rodriguez who lovingly fostered him in Orlando, the Orange County Animal Services, and all you who have generously donated, cared, or shared!!! I couldn’t do any of this without YOU!!!
Thank you all for recognizing that love knows no borders!!!!!!!!
❤️🐾🇻🇪🇺🇸🐾❤️
