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World Vets is clearly doing their job here in Granada. The streets here are strewn here with stray dogs, begging at tables and scrounging through garbage for food. We are planning on doing neuters and spays tomorrow at the clinic that World Vets has opened up in town, but we had a little trouble when we went out to find dogs.

Strays who have already been sterilized by World Vets are marked with a
tattoo near the incision site so it’s easy to tell they’ve been a patient before

Typically it takes no time at all to locate a few viable candidates, but tonight it seemed that every one we found, it had already been to the clinic. The few that hadn’t already been spayed or neutered had owners who weren’t interested in sterilization. After two hours of driving around and talking with locals, we finally decided to wait until morning to try again.


We have one pup back at the hacienda Merced. Bobby is our training dog. I'm not sure kind he is. Which breed is the one that’s stuffed with foam?

He's definitely seen better days, but he's still staying together well enough for our purposes - floating long enough for us to get out to him and pull him back into shore, and sitting still while we practice putting harnesses on him and tying him to a stretcher.



Scruffing the back of Bobby's neck serves a two-fold purpose - it's
proper technique for a rescue, and it helps keep Bobby's stuffing in

He only knows one trick, though. Stay Bobby. Stay.

At our trip to Laguna de Apoyo today Kansas State vet student Laura Schurr took to the water to save Bobby during our water training. She decided to come to the Technical Animal Rescue school after watching the disaster in Haiti and wishing there had been
something she could do. Now she's learning
techniques that she hopes she can one day apply when the next inevitable disaster strikes.