From here, in a corner that still smells of mud and damp, I try to understand what happened. I am just a dog, a being who, until recently, ran free in the fields, happy and carefree. But now, all I feel is a mixture of fear and desolation. Because yes, I survived what they call DANA, this storm that destroyed my home in Valencia. A miracle, the firemen who pulled me out of the rubble tell me, and I look at them with gratitude, although I keep asking myself: how many others like me didn’t manage to escape?
I listen to the news, or so I think, as the sound of human mutterings speak of nearly a hundred dead. I hear the sadness in their voices, but I also feel the passing of my friends and so many other animals who were trapped with no way out. It’s not just dogs, but cats, birds and all the creatures that called this place home too. We had no maps, no warnings; we didn’t know what was being sold. We only saw the sky darken and the water begin to flood everything.
What happened to those who were not lucky enough to be rescued? Some were pets, yes, but others were just free beings, like me. Perhaps few think about this, about the number of lives that were extinguished without even a warning, because the concern is concentrated on explaining the humans, on knowing who went and who survived. But I, with fur still wet and fear tattooed on my memory, wonder: how many of our furry friends have we lost, the ones who kept howling at night, waiting for help that never came?
And as I try to forget the sound of the water washing everything away, a feeling of sadness comes over me that I know I am not capable of expressing in human words. I only know that, when time passes, in some corner will be our memory, that of all those who were caught in the middle of a disaster without understanding what was happening.
For many it will just be a number, but for us, the animals who lost our companions, it is much more than that. It is the loss of our world, of our refuge, of that tranquility that today seems so far away.
Maybe one day, in some corner of the sky, we will meet again.
From Mas Torrencito we wish you all to be well, to be well and that you have not had any personal misfortune… the material.. better than the worst… it is this.. material…. !!!!
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