1st thing I did when I got in was check on Bella and Frodo.  Frodo was fine but I knew we have to move Bella since she was in the same position since the day before.  We “dragged” her to the clinic and checked her wounds.  They are still very shocking, although healing.  We redressed and gave her antibiotics and painkillers.  She practically ran back to where she was sleeping, which was nice to see as she was hesitant to move at first.  I hurried to clean her bed and give her a new coat.  She is very trusting of me and I pray that she will make it.

I cleaned the puppies and the concrete again today.  Oh, almost forgot.  The pretty girl in the kennel outside, Mila who has the same wound as Bella.  We also cleaned her up and she too is healing nicely.

So back to the concrete and I noticed that there was a new Galgo in the kennel with the other shy girl.  Someone must have left her there overnight. It is very common to arrive in the morning and find dogs leashed to the fence or even in the entrance.  She is very beautiful.  All black but very skinny and scared.

After cleaning the concrete, I went to see Lorenzo in the quarantine.  He is still very shy and scared.  I don’ think he is going to warm up to me by the time I leave.  There are 3 or 4 other dogs that are in the same kennel that are very funny and excitable.  I got peed on again! 

In the 2nd quarantine kennel, there is a sweet little black girl that goes crazy whenever I enter.  She loves me and it breaks my heart.  I named her Sophie.  There are two other females with Sophie that are very scared. I am able to pet them, but Sophie prefers that I pet her instead.

Before we started working today, Maria Jose and I were in the kitchen having a coffee.  We talked about Scooby and both had a cry.  I told her she was amazing for being able to do this every day.  She said she has to or the dogs won’t have anything.  We talked about how my dogs at home and how it’s so different here.  Many times people correct her when she calls the Galgo a dog.  They refer to the Galgo as a ‘thing’.  It made us both sad.

Later in the day, I was in paddock 4.  The last few days I had noticed a dog always in one of the dog houses.  Every once in a while I would hear or see the stronger more dominant dogs barking at him.  I went to see who this dog was.  I wanted to know if he was a male or female, if he was injured or sick.  It was a beautiful light fawn male.  He came out to see me and then hurried back in.  I continued to clean up in the yard with Maria Jose in the paddock beside me.  All of a sudden we hear barking and growling.  I run over, screaming at the top of lungs and attempt to break up the dog fight.  It was the dog that was in the dog house that was being attacked.  I managed to get the other dogs away and protect the dog that was in the dog house.  He was so scared that he literally poop himself.  Maria Jose ran to get a leash and we escorted to him safety.  He has a few tears on his back end, but overall was okay.  We placed in the concrete with the two shy girls.  I put a coat on him before I left, but by the time I got back from turning on the heat lamps in the quarantine, he managed to take it off.  I named him Jack.  I always like that name for a dog and he had such a sweet face.  The other reason his name fit so well, was because his ‘jack’et kept sliding off.  So “Jack” it was.

Majority of the time the Galgo is very quite.  Many just watch you as you clean.  Some will approach you and attempt to climb all over you.  Others runs so fast, so scared.  I find comfort in knowing whatever made them like that no longer be a part of their lives.  Most of the timid dogs are in the quarantine area.  One quarantine has about 10 dogs.  About 6 of them were in one bed at the same time.  Literally sitting on each others heads. My presence makes them shake from fright.  I try not to stay long and quickly do what I have to do.  It breaks my heart to think of what these dogs have gone through.  “The more I see of people… the more I love dogs.”