Mar 21, 2018
My blog reader project
Colin spent Tuesday morning replacing the rest of the hinges on all our doors within the RV. I concentrated on getting over my cold and of course got more research done.
The gold colored ones were getting rather corroded from the salt air and it was time to do the big change over. This was day two of a project he started a few months ago. I think that we are good for another 15 years.
When I complained that I needed more desk space, Colin had the brilliant idea of using our high low coffee table as an extension to our dining table. Lots of space now. Yes it is chaos but it is organized.
We went for a walk midday, my first in a few days. I just had to see how the puppies were doing. Ann is doing a great job with them. She is holding the middle one who was not doing so well and has no name. I have Bandit in my right hand and Peewee in my left as temporarily named by Ann.
They all loved Colin and wanted to be near him. Peewee kept trying to climb up his leg, that is the one between Colin’s shoes.
Bandit is the largest and used to be the pack leader but has turned into a wimp who wants to be held all the time.
The middle one who has no name is doing much better and no longer needs to be bottle fed. It is eating kibble as well as drinking milk and is doing some playing. It still needs more sleep than the others and its eyesight seems normal.
Peewee despite being the tiniest gives as good as she gets from the others while at play and aggressively demands to be picked up and held and loved.
It was nice to see that they are all thriving and doing well. Unfortunately the shelter was unable to take these three in this week but claim that next Monday is the day that they will have a spot for them. I have to thank Ann who is a blog reader for taking the pups in. I don’t think I mentioned it but briefly in November that she was here on the Isla. Ann or Anne, she goes by both, claims that she left Saskatchewan, Canada solely based on reading my blog. My descriptions and photos of the Isla brought her here. She never let me know that she was coming and made her own accommodation search and final arrangements. She has been here since early November and is not leaving until April 28th! Ann has no TV, no radio or CD player other that what was lent to her for a few months. She did not bring a computer but she has no internet anyway. She does have a telephone landline that allows her to call back to Canada at no charge. Sadly her knees do not allow her to walk very far so she has pretty much been staying here on the Isla. She is seriously looking for another place to stay here again next season that is in a better location. Ann has been so very generous with her time in helping with these three very very young puppies.
When you bring an animal to the shelter it is expected that you make a donation. I raised funds for Princesca and her six pups. Then I was asked to please raise funds for the pregnant dog Pepper who had her pups at the shelter. So when it came to these three, four week old pups, who were left at my door step so to speak, I once again had to come up with money for the shelter donation. I had pretty much tapped out everyone I knew here on the Isla. But I just happened to have some blog readers here in Mazatlan. So thanks to all of my blog readers who had traveled to the Mazatlan area, I was able to raise enough to cover the expected donation to the shelter when one brings in an animal, in this case three animals. I have yet to just bring in the one dog :). Actually I think that I am up to 22 dog lives saved with these three interventions. But I will always think of these three pups as a blog reader project. Thanks to all those who were here and able to help. J + G, thanks for helping not once but twice. I am so very fortunate to have all of you blog readers in my life. Thank you for all your comments and support, it means so very much to me.
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Nice that you are saving all those dogs and raising funds to keep them alive and cared for.
Thank you!
Thanks again for stepping up to raise funds for the pups. They look even cuter now than before and the shelter should be able to find new homes for them. Wow, when I saw your working area and all that space to spread out. Some serious work can be accomplished in this setup. Calling must be getting a sore wrist from replacing all those hinges but some satisfaction at the new look.
Yes they are developing their own wee personalities. I love how we can move things around and be creative in this old RV.
Darn auto correct! Didn’t see it, sorry Colin for the misspelling of your name.
His wrists are good but he did do the project in stages.
Some of our cupboard hinges started breaking so I started the same project, replacing the hinges on every door that had problems. I have a few left to go. Nice to see the pups are doing so well!
Our hinges never actually broke but really started to look ugly and we decided it was time to do an upgrade. With our older RV’s there is always something that needs replacing as I’m sure you know.
So glad all 3 pups are doing well including the nameless one. I bet he got more one on one care than he might of at the shelter in this critical point in his little life, Ann is a good soul for assisting.
I never thought of that but you are so right. Ann even took that middle one to bed with her one night so yes they are getting more attention then they would have at the shelter. She is truly enjoying doing this.