After spending three weeks in California doing the annual tax stuff that needs to be done for being an American citizen (the only country in the world which taxes its’ citizens who do not even live there) and working a little for the Authority I have shed my long pants and shirts and returned to Panama. It was the first time I have spent three weeks in the little trailer we have on the Aromas property and it worked really well. I think the secret is the two sheds we have deemed “the closet” and “the garage”. That way we don’t have to stuff all our stuff into the trailer itself. Anyway, I packed the Worlds Largest Suitcase and one of its smaller brothers and returned home just below weight limit with lots of goodies.
Immediately after getting home I was swept up in the preparations for a spay/neuter clinic in our little town. You need to know that there are a lot of unwanted dogs who roam the towns of Panama and the local solution has historically been to put out poison bait and give them a slow painful death. In the past ten years several expat organizations have put together platoons of volunteer vets and technicians who swoop into an area and do marathon spay and neuter clinics which allows the dogs live but just takes the thrill out of their reproductive lives. So was the San Carlos clinic. Last Sunday I was the taxi for locals with no transportation to or from the clinic and the trapper of vagrant cats. Linda was the recovery room caregiver for dog’s ears. In one night and one day we sterilized 168 dog and cats and lost only one….the mother cat that lived next door to us and had produced at least 15 kittens in past six months. See the website at spaypanama.org and look for San Carlos. It was a well coordinated effort and most everyone had a good time, except the dogs and cats who were a little sore for a few days.
Anyway, things are back to the Panama norm of always 81 F, always changes in plans and almost always smiling’.
Immediately after getting home I was swept up in the preparations for a spay/neuter clinic in our little town. You need to know that there are a lot of unwanted dogs who roam the towns of Panama and the local solution has historically been to put out poison bait and give them a slow painful death. In the past ten years several expat organizations have put together platoons of volunteer vets and technicians who swoop into an area and do marathon spay and neuter clinics which allows the dogs live but just takes the thrill out of their reproductive lives. So was the San Carlos clinic. Last Sunday I was the taxi for locals with no transportation to or from the clinic and the trapper of vagrant cats. Linda was the recovery room caregiver for dog’s ears. In one night and one day we sterilized 168 dog and cats and lost only one….the mother cat that lived next door to us and had produced at least 15 kittens in past six months. See the website at spaypanama.org and look for San Carlos. It was a well coordinated effort and most everyone had a good time, except the dogs and cats who were a little sore for a few days.
Anyway, things are back to the Panama norm of always 81 F, always changes in plans and almost always smiling’.
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