Cuteness Overload ... a dog sleeping with his kittens

IMPORTANT: HOW TO REMOVE A TICK

Summer is here and ticks have been showing their heads since Spring.

Here is a good way to get all of them off you, your children or your pets. Just try for yourself.

PLEASE READ and please pass it on to anyone with children or dogs, to hunters and indeed to everybody who takes a step outside in the summer. 

This advice could save a lot of problems. This safe and easy way to remove ticks was written by a school nurse and put on the web to share with everyone. With this  technique all you have to do is follow these simple instructions. It really works. She writes :-

"I had a pediatrician who told me what way she believed, was the best way to remove a tick.

This is really great because it actually works on those spots that are hard to reach with tweezers – such as in between your toes, in the middle of a head filled with dark hair, and so on."

1. Put a good dollop of liquid soap onto a pad of cotton wool.

2. Cover the tick with the soaked cotton wool and pat it for 15-20 seconds

3. The tick will retract automatically. It will loosen by itself and hold onto the cotton wool when you remove the pad.

This technique has worked over and over again; I have used it lots of times. It’s less traumatic for the patient and easier for me. Even my doctor’s wife called me for advice because she had a tick on her back which she couldn't reach with tweezers. She used this method and called me back immediately to tell me that it had worked!”

Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't image this technique to be harmful in anyway.

Lobrigi sheds her past ....

This sweet but wretchedly used dog bore many, many puppies before we could save her. So many pregnancies, her body so worn and neglected. With us she's proving to be a pleasant sweet dog. She's getting lots of love and extra attention. She's still fearful. If you lift your hand to caress her she cringes, because she thinks she's going to be hit. But we're changing that. If you speak kindly to her and go gently, she's a princess - a very, very sweet girl who is learning that hands are there to pat and stroke and not to strike.

More than ready for a a wash and a nice haircut

There's a good dog

 We'll soon have those paws neat and trim

 Shampoo and blow dry

Nearly done? 

Two beautiful girls

Now she can smile again

Savoy is a happy boy ...

After years of being a breeding machine at a puppy mill, Savoy is now safe and loved

Hello from some of us ....

Fabienne sent these pictures over a week ago - they were taken on 6th June. Yet another little glimpse of daily life at El Refugio.

 Our dear Bodegeros, we have so many - so sweet and such good dogs

 Glorieta - nobody came for her - she is a perfect dog

Cuky can go home soon .....

.... not long now

This dear one is still waiting

 Cookie time - Steven gives out the titbits

Have you ever seen a peacock in full flight? It must be one of the most beautiful sights ever ...

Fabienne sent me this this morning. It made my day. Isn't it beautiful! It's like a phoenix - a good omen!
Difficult to attribute the photographs as they are on various sites on the web. If anyone knows, please get in touch.

STOP THESE HORRIBLE ACTIONS, BEING CARRIED OUT IN THE NAME OF FOOTBALL

WARNING - SHOCKING AND UPSETTING IMAGES

What do you think football fans would rather see, some stray dogs - maybe quite a lot of stray dogs - or this? If you love football, if you are following Euro 2012, did you realise that this terrible cruelty was going on? It's aim, so that you will think Ukraine is a civilised country. What civilised country behaves like this?

Open link and scroll down for the video - 

WARNING SHOCKING IMAGES