Awful smells, s l o w internet, and a personal malaise are hallmarks of life during the rainy season. Insects and thunder figure prominently.
Newbies Perl and Ruby are a bright spot
The sterilization clinic in May went well enough.
Thank you to Fanny from Wilberth tortillaria for making/donating lunch for the surgical team!
Follow up lasted well after the clinic. Once the dogs
spayed at the clinic (including Soliteria!) recovered, we had 5 more
dogs spayed in Merida using left over supplies. Thank you Pets
& Co!
Since then the town has poisoned strays again, including some that had been sterilized. If that pisses you off, let the mayor know!
Perl and Tupo safe at home
In June we had Nico and Coco spayed -and their sisters (thanks to the help of Angel). So relieved to
have all the mosquito shack girls sterilized!
We didn't really believe we could make it happen.
Coco Nut in motion
After months with no results from treatments for fungus, we had a biopsy done and it turns out Nico has a problem with her immune system. Poor baby.
Since we've been treating that she has started to put on weight and regrow her fur and lost nails.
Airborne Nico
June was the first anniversary of the arrival of Junebug and Zoila.
Strong, smart, beautiful and a bit weird. They are a handful!
August is sweet, silly Murci's third anniversary.
We intend to start a CADA website for updates and fund raising that focuses on strays and emergency cases in town.There is obviously overlap, but I think of this blog as a family album. Until then I'll try to be better about mentioning things we do outside of our home (usually with the help of fellow CADA member Jacky).
3 legs and all cute
poor girl got hit by a car but she's on the mend.
We recently were surprised to find out that Linda has bad hips. That means going swimming instead of on walks,but she isn't complaining.
Linda, Perl and Ruby love the water!
Happy, wet Linda Loca
Ruby is a fierce little beauty
Perl is a charmer (and smitten with Archie)
Perl and Nico front a group of our finest demolition experts
All done swimming, going home.
Ruby, Perl and Linda 3 cute soggy bottoms
Wednesday, April 27, the Kinchil firemen that come to Celestun to fill cisterns brought a puppy they found at the remote cenote (where they fill the truck). They saw 2 puppies but one ran off.
She was ridiculously infested with fleas and has a broken tail but is fine.
Looking much better after a bath and intensive flea removal.
She has a great temperament and settled in immediately.
We're calling her Pearl(a). Or Perl.
Her broken tail is adorable.
As are her tiny paws.
Perl under Xmul, for scale.
Sean considers learning to juggle. Tito is not amused.
Twelve days after Pearl, May 9th, look what the bomberos found!
(She immediately pooped on Sean!)
Poor baby, all alone for nearly 2 weeks!
After her delousing, I may need one.
She's full of worms but otherwise surprisingly fit.
Say hello to my little friend.
We're trying out Ruby for a name. She's a bit bigger than her sister. Murci says hello.
May brought kittens, June brought flies. June is a bitch.
Momma Sugar and Cali, the day we met.
Sugar was living at a beach shack next door with her kittens.
Here are all 4 of the little devils. I like cats, but not what they do to the birds!
At least these 4 won't be having kittens.
Sugar checks out the view from the roof.
Sugar and Maldi have a tentative peace.
She's already proven herself to be a good mouser!
Daisy and pals play with their new toys, thanks to Lisa and Tim!
Xmul prefers Mo to toys. Happy dogs at sunset.
Lovely Xmul.
Not so much lovely as loved.
Ziggy naps.
These orange insects were standing motionless on a new shoot of our nopal. They caught my eye because it looked like a bloom, but nopal doesn't have orange flowers. They were so still that I touched them, thinking it was some kind of fungus. I'll update when I identify the species.
Identified as assassin bugs by Amanda. Thanks!
The dogs do their best impression of ants.
Hey! No dogs allowed on the tabl.... ah, forget it.
Elewah and Sean.
Her darling daughter Lily, and a napping Frankie.
Blue leads Zoot, Amber, and gang.
Siblings Zoot and Amber have not wanted to go out for months! So odd.
Finally, success -we convinced/tricked them, and
Amber couldn't be happier!
Zoot also seems to have forgotten what all the fuss was about.
Zasu, Zoot, Rita, Monkey and Tito head home.
A good representation of Ginger -doing her own thing.
All of the photos in this post were taken by Sean (with our sturdy, waterproof, slightly low-res camera). The salt ponds and surrounding woods have steadily been drying out.
Xmul and friends cross what's left of a pond.
On the mornings that Sean runs he goes about 8k, with 9 dogs, and takes drinking water ...for the dogs. Everybody (except Sean apparently) loves to drink out of the bottle.
Tori, Xmul, Luna and Truman have a slurp.
Xmul, Tori and Murci have a drink.
Oh, Steve. Not a thinker, but at least he's handsome.
Horrible! Frankie next to a huge turtle shell, nowhere near the beach; obviously poached, gutted and dumped.
To the beach! Tori, Linda and Twiggy.
Note the new house in the background; it is not only illegal (construction has been halted by an environmental agency for now), but also completely asinine to build so close to the water. This entitled nonsense, including the compulsion of homeowners to remove beach scrub, and install street and porch lights, does more to harm the turtles than the poachers.
Two of our biggest fans of the beach, Rufus and Linda!
PuppyG is rocking a new haircut!
Linda, PuppyG and Rufus!
King George and Xmul. George has been with us for a long time; he is worshiped and beloved by all the younger dogs.
Late in the month, the flooded roads are drying up.
Puddle jumping with Daisy,Tori, Mo, Chester (weird, he doesn't usually get wet ...maybe George knocked him in), George, and Bosha to the right.
Murci leads a happy group across land that was underwater a month ago.
