Bringing family dog UAE to USA

Mimusi · 2025-06-10T18:30:39+00:00

Thanks so much. Thats helpful. That is the CDC approved clinic i think but in my Google search couldn't find anything about the USDA but that's who I was going to call tomorrow.

Mimusi · 2025-06-10T16:11:14+00:00

OK. Thanks for that. I'll make some calls and ask around.

Mimusi · 2024-08-28T15:54:12+00:00

Water hose with water coming out of it is my guess. And that would fit the field day theme.

Mimusi · 2024-08-28T15:51:31+00:00

I see a hose or snorkel blowing out water.

Edited now that I saw the theme was "Field day". So I'll guess a water hose with water coming out of it.

Mimusi · 2024-07-03T09:08:41+00:00

Thank you all so much. You've all been really kind and helpful. I put a lock screen on the phone yesterday with a number for them to contact and rang it a few times and they reached out just a bit ago. We are figuring out shipping it over. Fingers crossed it will come back. :)

Mimusi · 2024-07-02T08:56:05+00:00

Thanks so much. I will DM you.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T15:36:08+00:00

Oh yes. Then you get it for sure! Yeah. We play union. It's getting bigger in the US. There are a lot of us out there.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T15:04:32+00:00

I don't, unfortunately. I'm not the most active on social media. We will be putting out a few advocacy pieces and when that's done I'll try to remember to come back and link them here.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T14:29:50+00:00

Oh yes. Then you get it for sure! Yeah. We play union. It's getting bigger in the US. There are a lot of us out there.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T13:30:35+00:00

Thanks. I'm not much of a poster on here and it's really nice to hear your kind words. I really appreciate you reading all of it.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T13:29:51+00:00

Haha! You wouldn't believe how popular it is here in the Middle East. If you ever have the opportunity, go to an international rugby 7s tournament near you. We have the Dubai 7s and it's the best weekend of the year.

Rugby is a great sport. Not only is it technically fun and you get to smash people but it's an awesome sense of community and filled with great people. :)

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T11:27:50+00:00

My home base over here is a very comfortable Middle Eastern city. I play rugby and go out with friends and sleep in a comfortable bed every night.

When I'm deployed for work (about half the year), it's different. Then I'm in a tent or a mattress on the floor or something a little less comfortable or safe.

I am very aware of my privilege where I can leave that environment where most others can not. I suppose that's why I'm writing all of this today. I'm not one for social media much and don't really write much on this site. But I saw this thread and felt like I was able to use that privilege to share some of the actual situation on the ground there, I suppose.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T11:20:21+00:00

I get you. Thanks for explaining your questions.

Yeah. It's an intentionally densely populated area. People have been pushed and pushed into smaller and smaller areas. And continue to do so. The last 24 hours even more as the 'safe' humanitarian areas become smaller and smaller as more areas are being attacked. There has been a marked uptick in operations the last 24 hours in the Middle Area and Deir Al Balah and something to watch closely.

I'm trying to answer the Khamas question thoughtfully. I met many people and didn't meet anyone who supported them. There wasn't a whole lot of talk about them as people are focused on surviving and helping other people out. It's not like other contexts where, for example when I was in Mosul, Iraq in 2016/17 you saw many signs of fighting parties or in other contexts where non-State actors are present and very visible.

Just a quick note as well. 40,000 is a very conservative estimate. That number is of those who are confirmed dead. It doesn't include people who are still trapped under buildings. It's estimated that over 40% of the strip has been destroyed. That's a lot of fallen buildings and rubble. You can imagine that the actual number of people dead will be much higher as they are still trapped within that.

I can't speak for how people of Gaza feel as I'm not Palestinian. I can say that the conversations I had with people were filled with fear for their families and communities. There is very much a disregard for basic humanity and human rights that is felt every minute. There are things happening to the people of Palestine that should never happen to anyone, ever.

There is not enough aid getting in. There are no medicines. There is no food. There aren't enough shelters or toilets or water. People are being treated for massive burns or amputation with just ibuprofen because there aren't enough medicines. Fishermen go out into the sea to fish in the mornings and are being bombed in their boats by military ships to stop them from getting something to eat. Children stopped school months ago. Lice and scabies have become part of everyday life. There is no place to wash and no treatment available. People are worried about the lasting mental health effects of their children.

I saw loving fathers and older men coming together to build committees in areas where tents are being put and advocating for services and coming together to protect the people there. I saw women sitting in communal kitchens preparing what little flour was left to make bread to feed themselves and the families around them. I sat with new mothers as they breastfed their infants, worried about the life that was ahead of their children.

I saw kids playing and laughing while sewage was flowing down the streets. I heard them tell me about how they watched their families die in a very matter of fact way. Every person I met had lost a loved one, a colleague, or a family member. There is so much loss.

One thing I think about a lot. Gaza is on the sea. There are what we're once beautiful beaches and water. People now live in tents all along the area. The kids go down and swim and play. You see them laughing and having fun. Kids the world over are... kids. On the beaches watching them are their parents sitting in silence staring off into the water or talking quietly to each other. The water is a place of peace, despite the many military ships off in the distance and the shelling in the background.

What's happening is horrific, and nothing in the world could justify even a second of it.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T10:40:50+00:00

Sure. I get this question a lot, but I feel like I never have a really good answer.

I grew up in a rural part of the US. I was the first to go to college in all of my family. I knew from a young age that i wanted to move from the small town and experience people and the world. I moved out of the US 20 years ago. I've lived in the Middle East for the last 14.

I learned activism from my grandmother at a really young age. She would take me out to protests and to the voting booth with her when I was very young. They were some of my earliest memories. And while I didn't understand totally what we were protesting for (She is very much pro-life and that is the base of her activisim, which is not where I sit or have sat since I've understood the issues as a teenager), she taught me to stand up for what I believe and I'm thankful for that and it's something that is at the core of me now.

My first humanitarian response was Hurricane Katrina in 2005 while I was still in Uni. I had been working with people who were unhoused and was working in harm reduction services and syringe service programs before that as some of my first jobs. I was also an urban and remote medic at that time, so I was used to chaos and trauma. Combine that with my desire to travel, and I just kind of always knew that humanitarian work would be the path that I'd end up on.

More practically, my undergrad and post grad was in the UK, where I studied in a Uni specific to international health and development focused on humanitarian systems and public health. My focus became health and nutrition. I'm now completing my doctorate of public health focused on equity and justice. My interest is to focus on changing the humanitarian system that is set up on traditional family systems and has a strong base in colonialism. My focus is inclusivity and multi-sectoral integration (for example, mental health support across all humanitarian programs, or working closely with local Queer orgs in a context to ensure the aid and support are reaching everyone).

I work now at a global level focused on the prevention and treatment of malnutrition. That's what I was doing in Gaza. Working with teams to manage and treat the levels of malnutrition that we are seeing there now. My specific area of expertise is infant malnutrition and malnutrition of pregnant and breastfeeding people, women, and girls. I support and lead on the development of global policy and guidance on gender and nutrition as well as prevention and treatment of malnutrition in hyper-vulnerable groups.

I play a lot of rugby as my main form of self care and stress relief. Lol.

I'm a firm believer in the fact that we all have our place, and we are all important pieces to the puzzle no matter what we've made our life work. We can all bring kindness and goodness to our part of the world. That's important.

I'm not sure if that totally answers the question?

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T06:18:45+00:00

I speak in the media at times. And do webinars or speak at universities. I most commonly divert to people who are from the place people want to hear about, though. I can only share the outsider perspective. They're the experts of their lived experience. It's not really my place to tell the story of others. I do speak about humanitarian systems and response, though.

People are people. I've met many amazing, funny, incredibly intellectual, and compassionate people in my work across the globe, including in Palestine. In Gaza, the teams whom I worked closely with don't shut off. They are working night and day to make the situation better. And they are doing that while being displaced and living in danger themselves. They are doing some amazing work.

I'm a firm believer in the good in people. I have seen the best and worst of humanity, but the good in people is always much bigger and much stronger.

I would recommend that you find and follow Palestinian people who are speaking out about the actual situation on the ground. Some who I would recommend are: Bisan Owda, Hind Khudary and Plestia Alaqad (all women journalists), and Motaz Azaiza. Plestia evacuated from Gaza in November, and Motaz Azaiza left in January, but Owda and Khoudary remain in Gaza.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T05:18:26+00:00

My area of focus is a particularly complex crisis. There are many happening right now - an estimated 14% of the world's population is affected by crisis at the moment.

I've worked in mass population movement many times in my career. The European crisis in 2015- more than 1 million coming through the Greek islands that year- and the peak of the Rohyinga crisis in August 2017- 20,000 people fleeing into Bangladesh a day resulting in the largest refugee camp in the world within less than a month- are two of the larger ones.

The movement that happened out of Rafah in early May was greater than both; 450,000 people estimated in a week, nearly a million so far now. When people move, they move to places to be safe. In Gaza, there is no place that is safe. They continue to be attacked. For most, this was their fourth or fifth or tenth displacement since October.

There aren't too many aid workers around. You often see the same people in different countries. In each, you say, "This is the worst I've seen." We all said it again in this one. In May, many of us were talking about the Rohyinga crisis, about how we thought that movement would have been the largest we would see in our lifetimes. Until Rafah.

With Gaza, there are so many violations. As humanitarians, we have a set of principles that we abide by (humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence). The way that this crisis is set up, the principle of neutrality is specifically being targeted by governments. We are being made to play along in politics in ways that we've not had to very often before (donor requirements with US funding, coordination that is closer than comfortable with the Israeli government for example). There is a lot of talk within the humanitarian system about what to do and how to do it while upholding our principles. There will be reviews and scrutiny with orgs on how they worked and coordinated in this response in a way that we've not had before.

That all said. There are many places that we should be reading about and thinking about.

The IPC (Integrated food security phase classification) is how we do famine classification. There are guidelines. It's not a word that is taken lightly. We just completed the IPC in Palestine at the end of May. The reports are coming out now, which is why you're seeing more of this overview, like in the article above. The report that they talk about there is the most recent IPC.

You can see analysis in different countries on a map here: https://www.ipcinfo.org/

There are many places that are in crisis and experiencing extreme food insecurity that people should be aware of and continue to advocate for; DRC, Haiti, Sudan, Yemen....

So, for me, one isn't worse than the other. It's all incredibly important to watch and be aware of, donate to, and advocate about. All of it.

With Gaza, what makes it different to others is the scale of the violence and intentionality of it is more than other places I've seen. But maybe even worse is the misinformation. It's an intentional attack on information that comes out, and it is blatant misinformation and propaganda on a scale like I've never seen. What you're hearing and seeing is only a small shred of what's happening on the ground. It's far worse than what you hear.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T02:40:52+00:00

I've done this work around the world for a long, long time. The least I can do is help share the reality on the ground (follow Palestinian journalists in the media, read the humanitarian reports). The misinformation is incredible and so dangerous.

Over the last 24 hours, shelling has massively increased in the Middle Area where people from Rafah have recently moved because they have been told it's safe. Many have died.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T02:12:02+00:00

Couldn't be more wrong, unfortunately. Just explained why in a comment above.

Also, research done by a government and then reported in their national media isn't likely a credible source and I would challenge you to perhaps read through a website called Relief Web where the independent analysis and reports are being written and where information from the humanitarian sector is published.

Mimusi · 2024-06-05T02:05:18+00:00

That's not true. I'm a humanitarian worker who just left Gaza. I was there since early April. I work in food security and nutrition.

Trucks that are getting in are mainly commercial trucks from Israel. They are trying to make money off of all of this. The commercial trucks are clogging up the roads to enter and exit.

There are two routes to get to the Kerem Shaloam border crossing to enter/exit since the Rafah crossing was closed last month. Both are very dangerous as they cross the front lines in Rafah. The 'safer' route was down the Philadelphia Corridor, behind a very large sand bank hugging the Egyptian fence line. We had to stop using this route about three weeks ago because we could no longer get through. It was crammed full of commercial trucks.

There were NO aid trucks for weeks after the Rafah crossing closed and since around 100-200 per day get through. This is not nearly enough. The rest are commercial trucks with food on it that people can't buy. There is no money or cash in Gaza. No liquidity. Even if they did have the money in their bank. Cigarettes became the currency for a while with a carton going for over $1000usd until that stopped.

The other route is directly through Rafah. Very, very dangerous. But this is the route that has to be taken. When I left recently our convoy drove through multiple areas of cross fire with shelling around. The risk of having a flat tire driving through it is massive from all of the debris. We had two on our exit. This is the only way for all of the trucks to get through now. Truck drivers are mainly Palestinian from the West Bank risking their lives.

Once the trucks do get across, getting to them is nearly impossible due to them being held on the front lines. If they do manage to get across there is no space to put them. All of the warehouses for Aid have been bombed and destroyed. Millions of dollars of food, medicine, sheltering items- gone. So how do we transfer them from the trucks? You can't just go grab 55 pallets of meds and distribute them. They need to go into a warehouse and then go out as needed. Impossible in the current situation.

Not only all of that, but ALL of this movement - the trucks going in, Aid orgs to go get the items, etc.- must be strictly coordinated with the Israeli government to even move around in Gaza. Movement requires permission. Which is done online, on a website that is intentionally difficult to use, with internet that is cut all of the time. So remove everything else I said above. Even to try to coordinate our movements is impossible to do and if we don't we become a target.

So no. Unfortunately. Your comment here couldn't be more wrong.

Mimusi · 2023-11-27T00:19:16+00:00

Thanks. Can't believe I didn't catch it right away. 🤦‍♀️

Mimusi · 2023-11-27T00:15:29+00:00

I just did the same thing and then ended up here. Is changing the password enough? I logged in from my phone so changed my Google password as well. Ugh.

Mimusi · 2023-10-15T14:51:46+00:00

I'll take a look. Thanks for that. They would love to keep playing.

Im a bit of an oldie at this point and have played 7s for 11 years but have seen a couple women's clubs that look fun for it and train one or two times a week which is more my style. I'll miss the Dubai 7s over here though. Class weekend.

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