Oreo is the chubby black and white one on the left and Bingo is the skinny spotted boy on the right. Haitian puppies. They are five weeks old (about) and not yet weened. They sleep under a garbage container with their four brothers and sisters and visit our quad daily. They've begun eating very mild "Laughing Cow" cheese from my hands; today was the first day they settled down enough to fall asleep with me. They are plagued with fleas. Why, you might ask, would one waste their time with raising and training puppies in Haiti? Well, when you see kids (being kids) kicking, throwing rocks at and generally harassing things more helpless than they, you sort of want to change the status quo -- at least by example. So these will be the quad puppies -- kids will (hopefully) learn kindness toward weak creatures and eventually they'll be good guard dogs as well.
Children here tumble up -- if it's a tough life here for them, unimaginably so. Many of the kids at Espwa must learn affection in addition to all their other tough school and life lessons.
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