Two weeks ago we were sitting in the kitchen having our morning coffee when I got tired of the increasingly loud howling of some little mutt nearby. I stepped out of the kitchen to see a small puppy struggling to keep from drowning in the center of our swimming pool. She was on top of our floating pool cover but sinking fast and I could see she was about to be tangled up in it and in real danger of drowning. We quickly dragged the pool cover up onto the side of the pool and hauled out a tiny, shivering, whimpering little puppy.
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Lucy, Feb. 15, 2014
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We decided that someone had placed her under our gate to "abandon" her with us; a fairly common occurrence here as the locals do not believe in spaying and neutering but also don't want to take care of all the resulting puppies. She seemed healthy enough so we got some food for her and had the vet check her out the next day. She weighed 1.485 k and the vet started her on de-worming, otherwise she was fine.
A facebook poll for names resulted in Lucky, Sochi, Nemo, but she really seemed like Lucy to us, so Lucy she became. It's now two weeks later and she's getting pretty comfortable here although we're still struggling with the house-training. She's a little too young for flea and tick medicine so Chris bathes her regularly with Flea/Tick/Lice soap.
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| Lucy, Mar. 1, 2014 |
Luckily, we found her a new owner to take her in a few weeks, our friend from Mexico City, recently retired and moving into his vacation home this month near Chuburna. I have to admit, as much of a pain it is, running her outside every time we find her peeing in the house, and her waking us up in the middle of the night to go out, having to deal every day with having a dog to take care of .... I think we'll miss her a lot.
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| Lucy and her buddy Oliver, Feb. 25, 2014 |
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| Lucy and Roger, Feb. 19. 2014 |
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