This time, and as they arrived, I’ll tell you that we have new tenants from a different species.  They are some birds of paradise which have been donated by the Fuengirola Zoo. They are endangered species, so if our chicken turn out to be male and female, we propose ourselves that they’ll be the only animals with chances to breed here. If I must be honest, there’s another one who will be able to breed here, a duck. A couple of French ducks. The female has been so intelligent that she has nested in a place which makes it absolutely impossible for us to reach the eggs. Not us nor our mastins, in charge of eating the eggs of all the rest of our birds.

Last week we had a team of Spanish vets, Pablo, Sergio, Juan, Ivan, and Andrea, the Italian guy studying in the University of Zaragoza with a scholarship, with Pablo. They were here together with Loes and Fie, who came from Denmark to neuter.

They have tested most of the dogs of Leischmania, neutered, and because they had brought the portable ecographer, we’ve been checking our dogs from the inside. Well they have done all that. We have also been discussing a bit of what we’ll do in June, when we’ll start a program in which, students from the Zaragoza University, monitored by Pablo, and students from the Ohio University monitored by Guillermo Couto will be here in Scooby, making tests and neutering.

Juan, who is specialized in eyes, has promised to come with the equipment to operate our dogs with cataract and any other ophthalmologic problem. They’ll come with several ecographers to check our animals. They all coincide that Scooby is an ideal place to do this kind of things because thanks to all the donations you have done to us, we have two operating rooms perfectly equipped. We are now building a macro operating room so that teachers and students can move in an easy way. Even when we don’t have an X-ray machine, a permanent ecographer and some other machines for clinical analysis, for the rest we have all we need.

The educational program that Maria is doing together with the county council is doing fine, and as usual our animals are behaving wonderfully well, but Maria will talk about it in a more detailed way.

Hasta pronto.

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