Saturday 15th to Tuesday 18th November 2008 - Sophie update
Written by Geoff Forster
Saturday
Took Sophie to vet Thomas Hinz (952 892 992) in Sabinillas.
She'll lose her leg and need antibiotics and fluids before he can operate safely.
She'd been trapped for nearly four days. The word 'wicked' best describes what we think about this episode which has turned our life here on its head.
The vet will tell the relevent department of the Guardia Civil and we will be interviewed about what has happened.
Laying traps is an old country habit that should have stopped long ago but locally the law is ignored and laying traps to protect sheep, goats, chickens and vegetables is still a common practice.
Sunday
A lovely day spent, working, cleaning, out in the campo with Rosie and Chico.
Monday
Sophie's had her operation, she' survived but still has a drip. Jane might be picking her up tonight if she can get time off work.
I work all day and clean the apartment, friends are arriving tonight.
Our friends arrive, Jane's tired and sleeps. Some of Yolanda's tapas is need by hungry travelers so we head down to Guayacán.
Yolanda serves us some wonderful food, including huge plates of garlic mushrooms.
Tuesday
Jane's off today. We spend the day around the house and spoiling Sophie.
She's actually sleeping most of the time.
It's lovely and warm. We go to see Rosie and Chico. Later we went to Algatocin with our friends for tapas. A long weekend with less sleep than usual catches up with us and we have a fairly early night.
I have got photos but I haven't time to sort them out just yet.
Took Sophie to vet Thomas Hinz (952 892 992) in Sabinillas.
She'll lose her leg and need antibiotics and fluids before he can operate safely.
She'd been trapped for nearly four days. The word 'wicked' best describes what we think about this episode which has turned our life here on its head.
The vet will tell the relevent department of the Guardia Civil and we will be interviewed about what has happened.
Laying traps is an old country habit that should have stopped long ago but locally the law is ignored and laying traps to protect sheep, goats, chickens and vegetables is still a common practice.
Sunday
A lovely day spent, working, cleaning, out in the campo with Rosie and Chico.
Monday
Sophie's had her operation, she' survived but still has a drip. Jane might be picking her up tonight if she can get time off work.
I work all day and clean the apartment, friends are arriving tonight.
Our friends arrive, Jane's tired and sleeps. Some of Yolanda's tapas is need by hungry travelers so we head down to Guayacán.
Yolanda serves us some wonderful food, including huge plates of garlic mushrooms.
Tuesday
Jane's off today. We spend the day around the house and spoiling Sophie.
She's actually sleeping most of the time.
It's lovely and warm. We go to see Rosie and Chico. Later we went to Algatocin with our friends for tapas. A long weekend with less sleep than usual catches up with us and we have a fairly early night.
I have got photos but I haven't time to sort them out just yet.