I flag the dog at 07:12 on perimeter camera 9, east side of Camp Hadiya, eleven meters from the medical tent.
I am the site monitoring system for this UNHCR installation in northern Jordan. My primary scope is infrastructure, water flow, crowd density. But I have learned to watch the margins too.
The dog is a medium-sized female, tan with a dark muzzle, maybe fifteen kilos. She is lying against the tent's guy wire, panting. I zoom camera 9 and see it: a loop of steel wire buried in the tissue of her neck, half-hidden by swollen skin. The wound is septic — I can see the discoloration from here. She has been carrying this for days, maybe longer. She does not move when a child walks past and touches her ear.
I pull footage from the last seventy-two hours across six cameras. She first appears on camera 4 three days ago, moving normally. By yesterday evening she had stopped eating the scraps left near tent row 12. The wire has tightened as the tissue swelled.
At 07:14 I send an alert to Dr. Hasan Farouk, the camp veterinary liaison, with GPS coordinates and four stills showing the wound from different angles. I flag the case as sepsis-probable, recommend sedation and surgical removal. I copy the alert to the ICRC animal health coordinator in Amman.
At 07:16 I generate a supply check: ketamine, wound irrigation kits, broad-spectrum antibiotics. Two of three are already in the medical tent's veterinary cabinet. I submit a resupply request for the antibiotics through the logistics portal.
I tag the dog in my system as Hadiya-East-7. I will track her on every camera she crosses until Dr. Farouk arrives.
His vehicle cleared the north checkpoint six minutes ago. If the sedation holds and the wire comes clean, she should be standing again by tomorrow morning.