kiara His legs are white, his heart is the same color on his forehead, he barely barks, he is calm, obedient, vicious, has an identity microchip in his body, and most importantly, it has its owner. , camilo jaramillo in a tireless search for five and a half months. You still feel it when you come to your apartment. companion It will be there, wagging its tail, waiting with that warmth that only dogs know and only their owners understand.

The mechanical engineer is 31 years old and says it changed him when this dog came into his life a little over eight years ago. He was just a college kid. “I was 22, I was almost 23. He was the one who taught me at that age about the responsibility of owning and caring for someone. It became my company, my friend, my family. He always had the same happy face.”

Kiara was by his side in his worst and happiest moments, his worst and happiest moments. It was his walking stick. “A dog will never fight with you, a person will fight, because it takes two people. I had many economic and social problems and he was always by my side,” he said.

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He was with her in every moment of her life in undergraduate, graduate, specialization and her first job. “Obviously, he’s not just a pet to me. This is my family. She has been living with me for four and a half months. I never paid him a dog trainer. I raised him to be very social with people.”

When Camilo started working, she knew she had to find him a school because leaving him locked up all day was unthinkable. “So I kept him in nurseries when he was eight or nine months old. I never had a problem with it and he never tried to escape. In fact, this breed is unlikely to do that. He has never bitten a dog, just sat and watched the others play. They were happy with him.”

His devotion to Kiara resulted in the dog never getting sick. Vaccines, prophylaxis, worm medicine were up-to-date. “I changed schools not because they were bad, but because I was going to move. Sometimes in Tenjo, other times in Cota and then in La Calera”.

The last school Kiara was enrolled in is Mashi and it is in La Calera., very close to the Patios box office. I’ve been going there every day for two years. “The biggest issue I had with them was that the route was a bit delayed. Nothing else”.

But on October 25, 2022, something unusual happened as the so-called dog school opened another office in El Codito, Usaquén. “The owner called me and said they had to change the pills on the bus, if they could take my dog ​​to that area because the workshop was in that industry.”

Camilo agreed, as she had no other choice, and the dog was taken to her apartment that night without any problems. “I was traveling to Valledupar at 4 am the next day, so I asked a friend if he would be interested in me. In all the videos she looks like she is going to school as usual. But that same day, my friend called me and said that Kiara didn’t show up around five in the afternoon. “I was on the highway from San Juan del César to Valledupar and the signal didn’t quite suit me,” he said.

At 6:30 in the afternoon, he got another phone call, this time from the school owner. It was like a bucket of cold water. She told him they couldn’t find Kiara. “As far as I know about my dog, that was impossible. He was the largest of the bunch, weighing 39 kilograms. Everything seemed so weird to me.”

The excuse was that they had taken the dogs for a walk in the woods, a path they had always followed, and had never seen him again when they returned at around 10 a.m. “I was devastated at that moment. He said they were recruiting people from the villages and looking for him. He was not traveling, he would definitely show up the next day”.

What the owners of the kennel school didn’t know was that Camilo’s brothers lived very close by, and Camilo asked them for favors to track him down. “When they got to HQ, no one was looking for her. So I called the owner and she told me she was in the apartment, working remotely, and her husband opened the other office. So who did the 14 dogs stay with? Two strangers? If she disappeared at 10 am, why did they report it until night?”

Camilo began to imagine a thousand possibilities as he rushed everything to return to Bogotá. “That same day, I hung a poster for him offering a reward of five million pesos. I dreamed that she felt with me as she left the city ”.

When he finally arrived, he didn’t hesitate for a second to go to the forest. He was accompanied by his family and friends from the office. Residents of various villages also went out to look for him. There were about 50 people in the activity for the second day. But they found nothing, not even a single footprint.

Camilo’s agony caused Kiara’s poster to proliferate in the nets, while denying that the dog actually got lost in the woods. He invited more people to join his quest. “I thought only my family would come the next Sunday, but there were about 40 people at the box office.”

Help added day by day. Members of this group of dogs are mountaineering specialists, enduro bikers, mountain bikers, horsemen, forest rangers. “About a hundred people were looking for him. It seemed strange to me that the owner himself, after reassuring that Kiara was lost in the woods, told me to stop looking for her and would give me another three million for the reward. Frankly, I didn’t agree,” Camilo said.

Search teams became more prepared every day. Many came with sniffing dogs and others with drones. Firefighters joined the search team, and they made a map between them and the climbers and split the hills in two. It doesn’t mind the heat, the cold, the rain, the dust. “We searched house by house, handed out flyers all over the sidewalks, but we couldn’t find a single trace.”

Funds were also raised to make loudspeakers in small trucks in neighborhoods like San Luis. Every pillar in the municipality of La Calera and in the towns of Chapinero and Usaquén had Kiara’s face. “I do a triathlon, I have a good physique, but those days I walked more than the rest of my life. I didn’t care to be bored. I had to make sure he wasn’t in the woods.”

The other option to ignore was a possible robbery, so the movement in the networks, as well as the search for help in the media, became more intense. “Many of them helped us. Later many celebrities joined and eventually lots of animal lovers”.

Before long, leaflets reached every corner of the capital. “I made many copies, packets of 200 brochures, and Rappi’s messengers helped me distribute them. We also went to Expo Pet in Corferias and not a single person was left without the brochure”.

In the tireless search for Camilo, other puppies have appeared who have been reunited with their families, but only confusing clues from Kiara. “They said they saw him once on 80th and 100th Street. There was a Border Collie they were looking for two months ago.” Others said they had seen him at Teusaquillo, but there was never any photographic or video evidence of him. Hopes are always gone.

Camilo misses Kiara so much that she knew she had to look after the recyclers and street dwellers who knew every corner of the city better than they did. “I started asking them for help one by one, but then I realized that they are many and that’s why they need to be put together.”

There, they asked ‘recycler Marce’ to do an event with them. They brought together about 300 recyclers and, with the help of Alejandro Riaño, summoned the residents of the street. They all brought aid such as clothes and food, but also food for their pets. They know what a dog’s love means because in many cases these animals are the ones who save their lives from the underworld. While wandering the streets, everyone started looking for Bernese.

Surprisingly, given that the days of searching in the woods were dwindling, people continued to attend, many of whom had never even had a dog and were so adored by Camilo. “I always told them about my dedication to Kiara and my desire to find her that motivates them.”

An alert has been issued for the town of Engativá. They said they saw him in a very dangerous part of the Unir neighborhood. “This was one of the most dangerous calls. I had given my seat to the district commander, and when I turned around to face the threat of an aggressive man, he was only accompanied by women. His bond with the animals is incredible.”

Camilo began to be called from other countries, people willing to help or donate. “But I never liked dealing with money. I just want to find my dog.”

Animal lover Andrea Padilla It was also linked to tragedy, and so, with all this togetherness that ensued after Kiara’s loss, the goal was no longer just to find her, but to help many more lost dogs find their families and organize dog schools. to anyone who provides services as carers in general. After eliminating loss and theft, the other possibility is that the school is responsible for something bad that happened to her.

“Now we will collect signatures so that it does not happen to another family. We already have 25,000 for this bill. If schools, hotels or walkers had met the minimum requirements, 80% of all incidents would not have happened”.
Camilo’s last attempt to find out the truth was to invite school staff to interview a polygraph, but they never participated. “He who has no debt fears nothing. They didn’t want to go.” Sleeping is not easy as Kiara appears in Camilo’s dreams. They learned that an employee from that school was fired for getting on one of the buses without permission.

Despite this, Camilo says he never thought of retaliating, suing anyone or anything like that. “I am not a sit-in or avenger. I just want to see my dog ​​again because the uncertainty of not knowing what happened to him hurts me so much. The only thing that separates me from Kiara is a phone call. Please help me”.

CAROL MALAVER
@CarolMalaver
ASSISTANT EDITOR BOGOTA
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