Friday, May 23, 2014

Back in America

I made it back to america yesterday. I arrived at the knoxville airport at 7:00pm. Thanks for all of your prayers.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Sheep

I just wanted to update a little about what has been going on here recently at Kibidula. More specifically with the sheep program. Well about a month ago on a Tuesday one of our Maasai herders was out with the cows and a dog came up and bit him. Then a little bit later the dog came and bit me but very slightly on my leg and it fought with my dog a little bit. Then it went on to the lambs that were home during the day and bit a lot of the lambs. Well it turns out that the dog was most likely rabid. So the Maasai and I went to the hospital to get a rabies vaccine and then that Thursday we hopped on a bus and went to Dar es Salaam to get an Immunoglobulin shot that would practically give us 100% protection from getting rabies. I heard later that the same day I was bit the dog had fought with some other dogs on campus. The local villagers killed the dog the day after I was bit. There is no way here to send the dogs head into a lab and have it tested. But the local dogs here don't normally go around biting people and other animals so we have to consider that the dog is rabid. A week later my dog was euthanized because she didn't have a rabies vaccine, and so to prevent anyone else from getting hurt we put her down. The other dogs that weren't vaccinated or that weren't up to date were also put down. Well anyways about a week ago a lamb started to have trouble walking and then it couldn't move and then it died. So about 3 weeks after the dog went through we have lambs starting to show signs of rabies well at least we think so. So please pray that God can help us to stop the rabies. I hate seeing all of these lambs die. Thanks for your prayers.