25.04.13

morning walk #1:
Lucy
Rita
Ernie
Stela
Maggie
Bosha
Hazel
Tory
(8)

Our recently-arrived HelpX'ers, Kaya and Olle, hitchhiked here ~800km from Tuxtla, Chiapas with a dog they rescued there who they have been calling "Tory". She is perhaps a little younger than a year old, looks like a chocolate lab mix and is extremely sweet. She had lived almost all of her life on the roof of the building where the people who had her kept her, with very little human contact or anything else for that matter. Today was her first walk with us here. Kaya went with me and I showed her the loop between the land bridges across the ridge. Tory was on the leash most of the way with Kaya until she was used to the whole going-on-a-walk concept but she was off for a bit and was good. I had Stella on the leash the whole way and Hazel on the other end of it for about half of the walk. Everyone was really good and Tory did well. She's going in today to get spayed. Rita is also going in today to be there for her allergy tests early tomorrow morning.
GRADE: A

morning walk #2:
Zasu
Miles
Henry
Bette
Blue
Tito
Monkey
Linda
(8)

Roni took this crew out for a walk in the monte; since I took Lucy earlier Monkey got the call. Henry was a jerk about the road coming home and has done that consistently for a few walks now: he runs ahead on the way home and goes into the road well before Roni. He never used to do this and he has to stop doing it - it is irritating. Other than that everyone obviously had a blast.
GRADE: A