Animal Love

So the other day I come home from a very long day at work and I am getting my pajamas on and I see something on my bed move. I thought I was imagining it and I wasn't even going to check it out, but then I thought - yes I did see something - so I went over to my bed and pulled back my covers and there was a little mouse right there in my bed - on my covers, on my pillow. Down he went under the bed. Hyperventilation of course and then I had to go find someone to help me get it. Two people came and helped me, we moved everything from under the bed and saw him two times, but yes...he got away. Now two other people have reported seeing him in their room. We went out to look for mousetraps yesterday, but all they have here is some glue that you put on a board or something and I guess the mouse happens across it and gets stuck on the glue and is trapped. My question then is then what do you do with it?? Of course you would have to kill it and that would just be too brutal. I know it sounds insane that a mouse trap is better, but at least if all goes well, it's instant death. So...I am not going to have any of the glue in my room, but I am curious to see if my friend Kallee catches one. I actually think it's the same mouse.

We also have some newborn kitties. They are actually older than newborn, but we just discovered them. We are trying to tame them so that they can live around the Villa and capture the mice.

We have three dogs on the compound. Kallee has named them Lincoln, Greg and Tina. The Peruvian guards have named them and the Philipino workers have named them also. So they answer to three different names. They are trilingual dogs!! Sadly Tina was very sick last week, so we had to take her into the vet and have her put down. We are just hoping that the other dogs don't get what she had. It is against policy to have dogs for pets, so we say they are guard dogs of the compound, but we still can't get the vet to come and treat them officially, although we have made some connections so hopefully they will stay healthy.

Well, that is all the animal reports for now.

One last thing is the pool is finally fixed here at the Villa. It was never clear, but they fixed it a couple days ago and it is beautiful. I will take a picture soon.