Family news: dog hospital edition.

Joy is at a trade fair in Manila: this is how they make contacts for customers, both private and commercial.

Ruby had a church practice Wednesday but joined her mother yesterday to help. They are staying over night in Manila with relatives.

Kuya sent the truck with a delivery this morning, but will be at the farm part of the day checking on field preparation on our land and by the farmers who grow for us. We are organic, so only organic fertilizer and minerals are used, and plowing the weeds under, not herbicide.

(the dry method of growing rice uses herbicide and produces less greenhouse gas, but we grow the traditional organic way).

I am well, at home. 

The bad news? Dogs. 

My room is the dog hospital. We have Babibaby here with her puppy in the bathroom, but George, our Labrador, also wants to sleep here now (he was always an outside dog until he got sick). The bad news? Last night he had a nosebleed all over my room... I kicked him out but an hour later he wanted back, and the bleeding had stopped so I left him in; ten minutes later he vomited old swallowed blood in the bathroom, which I had to clean up the mess.

 Uggh. 

I will let the maid clean up the blood all over the rest of the house. Luckily, the floors are stone/marble and clean easily.

To make things worse, Kuya's small but nasty watchdog is courting one of our female dogs, and bit one of our adolescent puppies who is just old enough to think of courting her too.

Since she was George's girlfriend, that meant he also was trying to chase Bruno away from his paramour, even though he is fixed and can no longer make puppies.

I finally chased them all out of the house and locked the door, so got some sleep... until the driver came to get the truck for the deliveries, and I had to bring them back in so he wouldn't get bitten. That was 6 am.

The cook came at 6:30 to cook breakfast and get money to buy food, and started cleaning up the rest of the mess, but I told her that the maid, her daughter, who arrives at 8 am, should do it.

the only good news:

The puppy's eyes are open and he started to bark. As soon as he starts wandering outside his box he will get moved outside where it is easier to clean up his messes.

Mama cat is thinner: it looks like she had her kittens. Alas, she is semi feral so hid them somewhere in the house, I think in the storage room closet. So we'll have to keep that door partly open for her.

The monsoon rains are here, so it is less hot now  so I can open the windows instead of running the aircon 24/7.