Saturday, June 30, 2012

Spots


If you're newer to this blog, you may not be aware of the tough time that dogs in Bali have.  It's a really tough life for them.  Most dogs live on the street, eat trash, and are full of all kinds of parasites and disease.  Rabies is also still quite a concern here in Bali.  If you need a refresher you can look at these old blog posts here and here.  Or you can look at this youtube video here (maybe not suitable for young children).

Most dogs that roam up and down our street would generally fit into the typical, gross, Bali street dog variety.  However, about two months ago, the kids noticed a dog that was very different.  She was almost clean and seemed eager to interact with humans.  The kids gave her a name, Spots, and they started to ask if we could keep her.  

The answer to that was a big negative!  However, we started giving her our leftover meat scraps, bones, rice, peppers, cucumbers, etc.  As we have learned through living here, hungry dogs will eat just about anything.

As we have gotten more and more attached to Spots, we find ourselves buying flea and tick medicine, being more and more intentional about saving little bits of rice and scraps, and trying to protect her from the other 'mean' dogs. 

The funny thing is that several of our neighbors are doing the same thing for Spots.  They have given her the name Luna, and they give her food semi-regularly as well.  She has become like the neighborhood's dog. 

We have been curious to know if Spots is an actual breed of dog or just a mix, so if you have any guesses on what kind of breed Spots is, we would love to hear them.

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