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Mom did a real exciting rescue yesterday!!! Personally I think she's NUTS!!!
I do NOT approve of lightning!!!!!
Here's her story
Tailwags,
BudBud
Ovidio, a young man who lives down the road from us, called me from work just before a horrendous cloudburst. He told me someone had driven in, late last night, and dumped dogs and puppies down at the corral. As you know I have the two new kids that came in this week so I really don't have a place for any more. I sat there for maybe 2 minutes after his call thinking, "Don't go. You don't have room." before I got up and started walking down to the corral. It had already started raining and thundering so I turned around and came back to the house to get the car.
I stopped at Ovidios house to pick up his little niece. He had told me she could show me where the dogs were.
When we got down to the corral there were 2 adult females and 5 puppies. The largest of the two adults was laying in a cardboard box with four of the puppies. The smaller adult was up against the fence with one puppy.
I got leashes out of the car and put them on the adult dogs and handed one of the leads to the little girl. I started back to the car with the bigger dog who decided she did not want to go.
About that time the skies opened up. Lightning was striking all around us and it was raining so hard I couldn't see but a few feet in front of me.
The little girl, more worried about the puppies than the adult dogs, dropped the leash and gathered up all the puppies, tossed them into the cardboard box and loaded them in the back seat of the car.
Finally, after getting the toe of my shoe caught in a vine and falling, I got the bigger dog to the car and tossed her in the back seat with the puppies.
At that point we realized the other dog had run off. WITH A SLIP LEAD ON HER NECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I told the kid to get in the car and stay. I was afraid she was going to be struck by lightning it was striking so close. I ran back to the area where the dogs had been but the dog was not there.
By this time it was flash flooding and there was a RIVER running through the pole barn and out across where the box had been with the puppies in it. They would all have been washed away or drowned. Even the two adult dogs might have been washed away the flooding was so strong.
I went back to the car and we sat and waited to see if the other dog would come back. She finally came running past the car. I think she was running from the lightning.
I saw her run toward the barn. It was still a downpour and the lightning was still striking close by.
As I got out of the car the little girl said something to me in spanish but I didn't understand it and I jumped out anyway to try to catch the dog.
I ran to the area where the dogs had been again. By this time the "river" was about half way between my ankles and knees. It was rushing water full of mud and cow poop. Healthy huh?
I didn't see the dog. Lightning struck REAL close by. I ran up past the barn and into the woods to see if the dog was up there. No luck.
By this time I am, of course, SOPPING wet and praying that I didn't get hit by lightning.
Coming back through the "river" the water was rushing so fast it knocked my left foot out from under me and down I went again. In the cow poop river!!!!
I ran back to the car planning to just sit there and wait until it stopped storming and THEN get out and find the dog.
When I jumped back in the car the little girl said something to me, again in spanish.
But this time I caught a few words.
She was saying the dog was under our car.
She had been there the whole time I was wading in rivers of cow poop and dodging lightning strikes.
I got out and called to her but she wouldn't come close enough for me to grab her or the leash. So I got down and crawled under the car, in the mud, to reach the leash.
I tossed her in the back of the car and started trying to turn around in the mud in a steep area. I managed to get turned around and dropped the little girl off at her house and drove back to my house with the dogs.
Bruce and I unloaded them in the rain. I didn't have a clue which puppies belonged to which dog.
We got them inside the clinic, got them dried off and warm, and I put the bigger dog in a crate with the four pups she was laying in the cardboard box with. I put the smaller dog in another crate with the one pup who was with her against the fence.
Within seconds, the pups were all yelling at me, "HEY LADY!! This is our grandmother!! Did you even check to see if she's got milk?? (sheeeesh...stoopid humans)
Soooo...I put all the pups in the crate with the smaller dog and everyone was happy.
I had to wait about posting the full story because I was way too angry.
If I ever find out who dumped these precious babies will one of you promise to bail me out?
Hola Y'all!!!
I haven't written in a while cause Mom hasn't had time to sit down and do my typing for me.
We've got new furkids here and they keep us runnin'.
We uploaded some photos to my photo site so you folks could see what we're talkin' about in this message.
Little Bingo is still with us. He just got fixed a couple of weeks ago so now he is ready for a brand new family!!! He and little Milana have been playin' like CRAZY!!!
He LOVES the great big dog beds!! The other day the lady who helps Mom clean house was here and she stacked all the beds up in a pile. Well Bingo wanted to go to bed so he just jumped up into the toy basket and zonked out there!!!
Uncle Lance is down here visiting and Mom is REAL happy about that!!!
Mom went to Panama with Uncle Lance, Joray, and Aunt Jane. They had a really good time and saw lots of neat stuff.
Mom says the neatest thing they saw was a sloth IN A STORE!!!! They were shopping for some hardware for Dad and there was this woman walking around with a sloth hanging around her neck. Mom and Joray wanted to hold it so she just handed it over and went on about her shopping!!
There is a rescue shelter in Panama for wildlife and this lady helps out the shelter.
Sloths are VERY gentle animals and not at all aggressive. They move so slow that moss grows on them out in the woods!!!! How lazy is that????
Mom says they are cute though and REAL sweet!! She says ya don't even have to hold them!! They just clamp on and hang around your neck!!! Kinda like those toy monkeys with velcro paws!!
They sure do have some LONG FINGERNAILS!!!! But this kind had only two!!!
On the way home Mom saw one trying to cross the road and was afraid he wouldn't make it so she turned around and went back to get him and move him to the other side of the road. By the time she got back a truck had stopped and they were moving him!!
YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
They got a picture of a cemetery in Panama that is built on a hillside!! Mom says it is a beautiful place to be laid to rest.
They also saw a black squirrel!! We have them here in Costa Rica too but we haven't seen any here.
Our corn, cabbage, tomatoes, beans and stuff is growing like crazy!!! Mom got some green tomatoes off the plant the other day and fried them up with corn meal!! She REALLY loves those things!! I don't like them though.
We are getting lots of fruit off our cactus too!! It sure is strange looking!! It turns red on the cactus and when you cut into it it is REAL red and has lots of little black seeds!! Mom says it is really good. She won't let me taste it though cause she says it might not be good for perros.
The birds really go for it though!!!
Mom saw some Howler Monkeys down at the river yesterday and took some pictures. There were lots of them but Mom could only see one family. A mama, a daddy, and a baby. She got some pics of course!!
And we got a new little girl into the shelter the other day. She came complete with 4 brand new puppies!! Somebody threw her out, pregnant, on our road. The neighbors couldn't catch her at first but after she had her puppies one of Mom's animal kids caught her and brought her down. She is a cutie. Her name is Lisa. She was pretty skinny at first and she didn't have much milk for the puppies, but now she is better and the puppies are FAT!!!!!!!
Well, that's probably enough for now. Mom says I'm a chatter box and her fingers get tired trying to type everything I say.
Y'all go to www.mrbudbud.shutterfly.com to see the pics!! There's a couple of pretty sunsets on there too!!
OH!! And one pic of a couple of the rescue kittens who got adopted.
TAILWAGS!!!!!!!!!!
BudBud
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