Gondola Tales: The Old Dog

What is it with this one orphanage?

Tales of Gondola:

The Orphanage  and the Old Dog

They say never bother an Old Dog, it might have one more bite.

That’s especially the case of an old street dog who’s found a home.

There’s an orphanage. It’s one of the Faerie Queen’s in a land we’ll call Far Away. This one is all girls. Not all of them are. And not all the girls are rescues. But it’s one of the Faerie Queen’s orphanages and you don’t mess with the Queen’s children.

The Faerie Queen protects and cares for her children better than 99% of the government systems on Earth. (There are a very few very good ones. Denmark is said to be excellent.)

All of the children at the orphanages, rescue or otherwise, are given top quality educations, taught English and computers, fed and housed often better than the surrounding populations. They get daily vitamins, regular health checkups, full medical care, new clothes every year and a gift at Christmas.

That’s better than most kids in foster care in advanced nations.

Some of the orphanages are in advanced nations. But it’s possible to care for ten orphans in Brazil for the cost of one in the United States. And in Brazil if you pay off the local authorities, they leave you alone to minister to the children as you see fit.

In the US, they deliberately do everything they can to ensure the children are abused, mentally, sexually and physically because messed up kids are easier to get into trafficking.

You’d rather be in a Faerie Queen orphanage in deepest darkest Africa than in foster care in the best areas of the US. Says something.

One day, an old street dog showed up. It was battered from years of living on the street, hungry, flea infested. The caretakers wanted to run it off, but the girls insisted it stay. It would put up with them for a little bit of food. They’d pet it and bathe it, to get rid of the fleas, and put garlands of flowers around its neck. It put up with it all, even the very young ones who pulled its tail and ears. They were puppies and besides it was getting a little food and care and friendship.