Hi Fred,
You asked me to send you the story of Atma's rescue so here it is in a
nutshell.
I went to Kathmandu for 6 weeks in the spring of 2009 as a volunteer to
teach English to young Buddhist monks. I walked to and from the monastery,
about 5 km each way, daily and although I saw many, many abandoned, sick,
injured dogs (and it broke my heart), the day I saw Atma stopped me in my
tracks. I'm attaching a picture of what I saw. For the most part hairless,
ugly rash on her skin, skinny and crawling with fleas and starving she
looked up at me and in the quick instant when our eyes met, I saw her soul
in her eyes and knew she was sent to me. I ended up getting her into a
cardboard box given to me by a shop keeper, hailed a taxi and took her to a
newly opened veterinary hospital in the city.

There she was given a flea bath, a thorough exam, shots for several things
among them an antihistamine for the rash which was an allergy to flea bites,
wormed, etc. Ten days later she was spayed and given the full complement of
vaccinations and within a few more days was flying home with me on 4
different aircraft and 36 hours of travel.

Her name 'Atma' means little soul (spirit) in Nepali and she has, since
then, given my hubby and I more love and joy than I thought possible from a
wee dog.

The pictures attached give you a profound before and after story.

{Lynn Moore)