Ceceda Pictures

Here are a few pictures from Ceceda!

Estrella is a young German Shepard. We got some funny pictures of her jumping for her favorite toy one afternoon. She had the energy... but accuracy wasn't her strong point.

Anjo's house in Ceceda is very nice. Surrounding the house is nothing but farms, hills, and cows.

Every Saturday Anjo, Renee, and I would go to the "Perrera".. aka the dog shelter and socialize/take care of the dogs there.

Here's our room. Looking out our window we could see the cows in the morning... it was angled so that the sun would come in the window all morning, which was very nice. All day and night we could here the jingling of cow bells.

Here's Renee offering flowers to a cow. The day before we left Ceceda we took a walk around the town (aka country-side)

Every morning the neighbor walks their cows.. at first we thought he was exercising them... but Anjo explained that every day they grazed at a different meadow. I never realized just how big cows were, until I had to convince one that my tools were not delicious (I had made the mistake of leaving my tools on the stone wall by the road while we were working on the fence)

Ceceda II

Buenos tardes todos!
Alex and I built 2 fences since we came to Ceceda! (and much more)

Things have been great with Anjo and her dogs! Friday we went to an animal rights demonstration in Gijon.

There was a ton of people there with their dogs, homemade signs and some of the dogs wearing signs that said "they abandoned me." The idea was to show that laws needed to be stricter and that there needed to be better punishment against animal abusers.

In the car driving to Gijon. Renee and Tikah coordinated their outfit all morning.

Alex being dragged down the street. Negre and Noah had never been to the city, so the hundreds of other dogs and people made them to excited to control!

Ceceda I

This week has been crazy. Exactly 1 week ago we left Donkey Paradise ( :( ), and went to help Anjo at her house. The job description
includes helping take care of 10 dogs... most of which are foster dogs and live with Anjo temporarily between going from Animales de Oriente, to their adopted homes.

Anjo's house is really nice. It's in the country side of the town Ceceda, (Nava), Spain. It's higher on a hill, so you can see houses and mountains on almost all sides of you. Having a washing machine and high speed internet feels like luxury :P

Our work has been a little of everything. Most of our time has been divided among Donkey-Proofing a meadow, so that Anjo can take care of a few donkeys in addition to the 10 dogs, and "socializing" with the dogs. Renee, the official-dog-petter has been hard at work. (Pictured is Jazzy - an adorable whipit that is one of the friendliest dogs.)