Baja Mutts and Morals

What you did was very well thought out and humane, IMHO.

most people would have done nothing--thanks for caring

Osprey
I think you did the right thing. nature can seem cruel sometimes but everything is for a purpose.

dogs of baja

Perros.....

Unfortunately, surplus dogs in Mexico or Baja don't survive very long...unlike the canines in US, Canada, or Europe. This is an old, old story for all pet people.

We need more veternarians...like the kind and caring lady vet at the Oasis in Mulege.

I have come across dog skeletons in the desert...tied up with wire lassos to a cactus and left there to die a terrible death. Saw a Baja fishcamp teenage girl twist the head off a kitten..and stopped the killing of the other 4 by taking them home. Seen countless homeless puppies next to roadkilled b-tches. Seen what indescriminate poisoning by baits with rat-killer can do to a poor dog. You try to feel some compassion for these evil-doers and forgive them...but that's damn hard.
But we do what we can with what we have...and hope for some improvements as times change.

Once when a few of us were camped out in the desert southwest of here, I came upon a female puppy who had been clearly abandoned for just a short time..because she was still alive! She wouldn't quite let me get my hands on her at first..just staying out of reach, but eating and drinking my offerings. Within a few hours she trusted me to pet her and after that she let it all hang out! Like a sunburst she was exuberant, full of life, and remained with us constantly. Of course, there never was any doubt but that she would come home with us when we broke camp. My camping companions, Johnny & Cindy, fell in love with the little tyke, too, and seeing as how they had recently lost thier ship's cat, Cuervo, to a coyote, I presented them the little orphaned pooch..which they promptly named Panoche (brown sugar)...and then promptly re-named to just plain 'Noche' when they found out what the slang word, panoche, meant!! Well, that was many a year ago, and Noche has traveled a fair distance from Baja with them...in loving care. She is in the arms of Cindy and Johnny Tequila at their Lonesome Dove rancherito near Coyote Bay..see photo. (Almost like the story of Lefty, Killer Caine's pooch..another community-saved dog adopted by a pet-lover)

I love dogs and cats and women...and with that in mind there's an old saying that goes...'Cats and women will do as they please, and dogs and men should just get used to the idea!'

Here's some of my favorite dogs...including the ones I painted on my duck-truck and decoy-trailer!

( a great short story about that dog-painted rear-end on my duk-truk. That Suburban was a little famous Up North and was called "Two Dogs F.....ing!" Once in Canada on a goose-hunting trip we were walking out of a local pub and a couple of the local gals were laughing and pointing at my two painted pooches 'doing their thing'. "Do you like my retrievers?" says I. One of the gals laughingly says back, "Well, one looks more like a 'receiver' than a 'retriever'!"

the correct word is "panocha", not "panoche"

Dogs

We have 6 dogs - only 1 bought - the others saved - all our dogs are cherished - the love they give to us has no price - I cannot understand people who abuse animals - but what can we do about it ? 6 dogs is our limit - but there has to be something we can do to stop the rampant abuse & negelect !!!! I think these people should be treated as they treat their animals - but that won't happen - so what can we do ?????????????????????