Saying Goodby to a Good Dog: RIP Mamacita
From time-to-time, it happens here in the Oaxaca village I also call home. A good dog dies. Not from natural causes but most usually from poison-laced meat. It is the fastest and easiest way. Others are hit by vehicles or cut loose from tethered ropes when feed becomes too costly, to fend for themselves. Most […]
What About Beezie? Oaxaca Dog Rescue and Finding a Home
This story has a happy ending! Two days after I returned to Teotitlan del Valle and my home here, I wrote about the skin and bones campo dog that Janie started feeding and named Beezween, which is Zapotec for deer. Beezie leaps like one with his long legs, so it was fitting. I posted Facebook […]
Puppy Rescue in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca–Update
Now that I’m back in my Durham, North Carolina, apartment, people are asking, “What happened to the mama dog and her puppies?” I guess I need to write an update! I named the mama dog Mamacita, for lack of any other creative moniker coming to mind. I call her Cita for short. She was a […]
Sudden Event: Street Dog Births Two Pups Behind Casita
This was NOT in the plan. I was going to leave Oaxaca on July 20 unfettered. Wind things up. Pack the bags. Go. Now, there is a Mamacita Perra (female dog) and her two pups camping out in the campo behind the casita where I live in Teotitlan del Valle. I discovered them a week […]