cin @ PAWS

10/3/12

10/1/12

Today was my day off. I slept in(til 8 o'clock, love the morning too much to stay in bed much longer) and went for my first run when I got up. I had planned to go sooner but I couldn't because of the flooding. I ran for 20 minutes which was enough since it is much more exhausting here with all the hills.

After cleaning up the caravan a bit I left for Turre around 11 o'clock by foot. I hadn't counted on walking in mud most of the way. I took off my shoes and kind of enjoyed the feeling of walking with bare feet in mud. It is kind of soothing as long as you are not thinking about the off chance that you'll slip and fall face down, :). Fortunately that didn't happen.

It took me about an hour to get to Turre, half an hour longer than usual. I sat down for some cold orange juice in a British sport's bar(a lot of British people live in this part of Spain). After running my errands I decided to take another way back to the shelter. Not one I really like since it is walking on the side of the highway. Not very comfortable walking when trucks are passing you going 90 km/h. But I made it back safe.

After a relaxing afternoon I went for a nice walk with my favorite dog here, Sirocco. I heard some disturbing stories about him today. Last year he shared a kennel with Taberna, another Galgo. He kept getting wounds on him and they found out that Taberna was terrorizing him. When it would rain she would not let him get into his dogbed under the roof. So he would spent nights out in the rain. Poor thing! And on top of that she bit him numerous times hence the wounds on him. Adding to all the scars he had already caused by some horrible Spanish hunter, :(. Fortunately he is sharing a kennel now with a very sweet timid Galgo girl named Syphera.

Anyway, Sirocco and I loved our walk today. The sun was setting, Sirocco was happy being outside and I felt complete bliss, enjoying the scenery while walking with my sweetie, :)
Today was an excellent day!

9/30/12

Sasha the Staffy I was talking about

nice warm day!

After another cloudy day yesterday we had some nice typical Spanish weather today, warm and sunny.
Still doing quarantine only. There is a Staffy there in the back called Sasha who is driving me crazy.
She is all muscles and so strong!!!! It is so hard to put her back into the kennel.
When you give her a bowl of food she knocks it over immediately so her food is all over the floor.
I think she is just so bored being there in her small kennel. I hope she moves to another part of the shelter soon where she will be able to move around more freely and have some nice playmates.

I took some pictures of the Back of the shelter. Some really nice dogs there. They all love some cuddles and attention, :)

friendly Robbie

cute Rusty

and beautiful Patch

9/29/12

I got some yummy feet

9/28/12

cute staffy in quarantine: Rosie

today was a bit different

We had some extreme weather here today. It was raining all night, so at 2am I went to check on the puppies in quarantine, to see if their beds were still dry. Fortunately they were.

Luckily they had some spare raincoats here, cause you needed it today. It was hard to clean the kennels since the rain kept flooding in. You could tell the dogs were upset, they hardly ate and didn't want to go outside to play. I got some extra towels for the puppies to keep them warm. I felt so sorry for all the dogs when it started thundering, :(.

Nobody could reach the shelter since the roads were blocked(and the road leading to the shelter was flooded anyway), cellphones weren't working and we had no internet. All in all, a very weird day.

9/27/12

the vegetable puppies(they are named after vegetables)

A friend of mine(you know who you are) wanted more 'Cindy' on my blog. So that's why I decided to write a bit more about my experiences here at Paws instead of just posting pictures.

Today was my second day here. It has been a bit different from the previous 2 times I was here. First of all there are no more guard dogs to greet you when you arrive unfortunately. Austin(one of the sweetest dogs ever) was adopted and Leonie died. And Henry, the office dog also died.

I did quarantine today and yesterday which is a bit more of a hassle than working in the other parts of the shelter. You have to disinfect your shoes every time you go in and leave a kennel and the kennels are quite small. There are lots of puppies in there now. My favorite are the 6 galgo puppies. They are very playful yet very gentle, not in your face the whole time like a lot of other puppies are. And of course they are gorgeous, but maybe I am biased, :).