Bye bye doggie

We had a chance to dog sit for a few weeks! Tom and the kids LOVE dogs and I am willing to become a dog lover. This guy has been passed around quite a bit but it really a sweet dog. Alas, we have a pack of about 10 kids under the age of 10 around or house which is great for our kids but not great for a dog. Local kids don't know much about how to treat a dog and so usually end up aggravating them. So that in combination with the multiple random cats our neighbor feeds just made him bark too much. It was a real shame as we all enjoyed him and he was remarkably trainable.

 

The nice this is that he is able to go live on a friend's camel farm so he'll have quite a happy life wild and free. He really needed more space than we had as well. We were willing to try training him on a leash but the cat and kid issue was just too much to surrount at this point in our lives.... 

 

You can see some good shots of our front garden. It is quite small compared to other places here but I've bought plants everytime I hear someone is leaving (= So it feels quite green at this point. For some reason outdoor plants are really really cheap out here! You can't see it from this photo but the house wall is only about 6 feet away from me in this picture so we have about 15 feet of space in front of the house but it stretches the full width of the house.