Scooby Doo Goes to Mexico!

In search of the Chupacabras.

I hope scooby had all his shots

A repost of a story I wrote:

THE SOC NESS MONSTER


By Eta, the Mexican Mutt

Yesterday my mom(bajajudy) and I were taking our morning walk on the beach, a couple of pelicans went by and definitely got my attention but when I looked up ahead I spied something I had never seen before. It was enormous. It had what looked like a tail, a head and three little stubby arms. I became very afraid, my hackles went up(they don’t call me hacklehead for nothing) and I got into the stealth mode(in this mode I drop my tail down…see picture of tail below….and get as close to the ground as I can and still creep up on my prey).
There was a monster in the water. I had heard of the Loch Ness monster and was sure that this was the SOC Ness monster of which you hear very little. It was huge and every time a wave came, he couldn’t decide whether to come ashore or go back to sea. I was certainly hoping that he decided to go back from where he came(my mom teaches me pretty good English, eh?) but, in fact, he seemed to be getting out of the water.
What is a dog to do?
I decided that getting right behind my mom was the answer. As I looked around her legs I realized my folly….it wasn’t a monster after all. It was a tree, of all things.
Today on our walk he was gone and in his place were two ospreys, diving and soaring and occasionally getting a fish. One dropped his catch and my sister scrambled to get to it first. She really loves live fish. She looks pretty funny with the tail flipping and flopping between her lips but she says that is the only way to eat fish. She turns her nose up at the really dead ones that I like to pee pee on.
I sure hope that the monster is gone. Mom said he probably came from Matzatlan. But I think that he came from the deepest part of SOC.
Maybe tomorrow we will find a giant squid.

Well we haven’t seen the giant squid but we did see whales today. Three or four of them swimming up the SOC. It was great to see them back!
We also saw pelicans which I love to chase. One day I was chasing a bunch of them and they landed in the water, looking for fish, I think. Anyway, they were just sitting there and I decided that if I swam out, I could probably catch them so I did. I will be darned if they didn’t fly away the minute I got into the water. It was at that moment that I realized that I was in deep trouble. There was this wall of water coming at me and I had just learned how to swim that very morning so I held on for what I was afraid might be my last ride. My mom was also in the water. My dad didn’t know whether to come to me or mom. Mom came crawling out of the water on all fours covered in sand but ok. They both ran to me. Well I will tell you that I have never in my short life had anything like that happen to me. By the time they got to me I had been deposited up on the sand but my head was spinning. I heard dad say, “Jeez she has sand crammed in her nose and her ears and her eyes, she must have hit the bottom”
I thought to myself….Aha that splains a lot. I have not been for a swim since. I decided that the pelicans can have the sea but they better never step on the sand or they are MINE.



Well, that was a fine thing to do to a poor pup.
Mom and dad left for Guadalajara for some book show and left me and my sister with Tia Monica(Cabo Kennels) She is one nice lady and her helper Victor treats me real nice. He is the one who taught me to come…in Spanish, of course. Took mom a while to figure that one out!
Any way here we are in this kennel with all the OTHER dogs. My sister gets along better with other dogs than I do. You see, when I was a little girl, I was abandoned on the side of the road with my real sister. Those creeps had tied us together by our rear legs. Now how did they expect us to get along like that. Anyway before my parents came along, put us in their car, and took us to their house, I had a hell of a job. I had to find food for me and Muffin. She was really sick. At the time I did not know what was wrong with her but I knew that she was not much fun to be tied to. So along would come other dogs and I had to be really brave and keep them away from us. During this time, we ate roots and drank salty water. The roots weren’t so bad but the water seemed to make me thirsty. We later found out that Muffin had Parvo, a very deadly virus for dogs and pretty common here in Mexico. She went to doggy heaven on a Thursday and the vet said that I only had a 20% chance of making it and made me stay with him over the weekend because my mom was too stressed over Muffin to handle another puppy death. Well, boy did I show him, cause here I am in living color. However these events left me not very trusting of other dogs so when we go to the kennel only my sister and I get to play together.

Silly I know but Eta has always reminded me of Scooby doo. I cant find the pic of the back of her head which looks just like the scoob.









When I came back from the kennel this time, my tail quit working. It wouldn’t stand up anymore. Mom was very upset so I ran away. I love fooling them. There has not a fence been built that I cannot get out of….mom and dad just spent over $400 for a palo de arco pen for us and the first day I crawled right out of that silly thing, leaving the humans scratching their heads and saying bad words. So on one of my jaunts, I saw Pintado, my neighbor and guard dog extraordinaire. Although he is my friend, I must say that he is one funny looking dude. He has a head like a Pitbull as in BIG and a body like a typical mutt except for the fact that his back legs wibble wobble when he walks or runs. He used to be tied up behind the hardware store but my dad told the guy who owns him that he should not be tied up as he had a raw place on his neck from trying to become untied all the time.