Puppies Given Away at Just two Weeks!

Thursday 17^th August

Olivia

Hi,

A family, who live just down the road from the bar, have a Yorkshire terrier bitch, which escaped form their villa whilst in season and got itself impregnated by another small dog, possibly a Shih tzu. When the Yorkshire terrier gave birth to 3 lovely little puppies the family who didn’t want the dogs, instead of having them put down gave them away at just two weeks old. The time of the dogs being given away and Luna’s 11^th birthday fell at the same time, so one day Luna walked into the bar with a little black bundle of fur snuggled up in the corner of a shoe box. Her parents had bought her some powdered baby milk and a feeding bottle and she sat down and to our amazement, this tiny little puppy was able to take milk from a bottle. In fact it had a voracious appetite and swallowed at least a third of the bottles contents at a single sitting.

Two or three weeks have now passed since Luna received the puppy for her birthday and it now has its eyes open, has grown noticeably and its still shinny jet black fur has become longer and more wavy.

Graham

Hi, I took a taxi to Algeciras this morning in order to collect our jeep from the diesel specialists. It’s about 45 min to an hour from our bar, so normally would be an expensive taxi journey. However we have a taxi rank right outside the bar, so we get quite a few drivers in as customers, so when we do need to travel a long distance, we get a nice discount on the fare. To get to Algeciras you set off along the N-340 coast road in the direction of Gibraltar and Cadiz, pass Estepona and before you reach Manilva take the E-15 motorway, which takes you to Algeciras. It costs 2,75€ each way in tolls.

The taxi driver whose name was Manolo gave me permission to take our little dog Sami in the cab (The Yorkie pictured above.), which was really nice of him. However he didn’t know where the garage was, so we ended up doing an extra 10km circuit of Algeciras and the journey was made even more dramatic when I had a bad attack of stomach cramp and had to ask the taxi to pull up quickly, so that I could go into the nearest bar and use their facilities.

We arrived at Algediesel and the jeep had been fixed and was ready and waiting outsisde. Apparently the diesel pump had been sucking air into the system through a loose joint.

As soon as I got back to our bar Olivia was waiting for the jeep to do a supermarket trip, so after a couple of days rest the jeep was put straight back to work.

Next post: graham talks with 18 year old Victor about his recent trip to Paris, his A/S results and his plans for the future (Career, university or Gap year?)