INDIA | Sunday, 4 May 2008 | Views [132]
The SARAH (Sikkim Anti Rabies & Animal Health) Programme
in India usually focuses its attention on cats & dogs but when we were asked for
assistance by the Himalayan Zoo veterinarian Dr Madan K.S.Shanker we were eager to help.
... Read more >
Tags: sikkim, leopard caesarian, vets beyond borders, veterinary volunteers, chemical immobilisation, indian wildlife, himalayan zoological park, fondation brigitte bardot
INDIA | Sunday, 4 May 2008 | Views [98] | Comments [1]
It’s a joke now that any veterinary volunteer who comes to
help the SARAH (Sikkim Anti Rabies & Animal Health) Programme in Gangtok
will also have to volunteer to piggyback me around. Since rupturing my achilles
tendon playing cricket 6 weeks ... Read more >
Tags: india, achilles, vets, vets beyond borders
INDIA | Saturday, 22 Mar 2008 | Views [269] | Comments [2]
Popped my achilles tendon while playing a game of cricket in Gangtok. Oz vs India - very competitive & controversial. I whacked the ball, snap went my achilles like a rubber band. It felt like I had broken a heel off my shoe & my foot was ... Read more >
Tags: achilles
GREECE | Friday, 4 May 2007 | Views [972] | Comments [6]
Animal Care Samos - www.animalcaresamos.com After a tiring flight from London to Frankfurt to Athens to Samos I was overjoyed to finally arrive, & to find Joeri waiting for me at the Samos airport. And he was very enthusiastic about getting ... Read more >
Tags: work, animals
PERU | Thursday, 11 Jan 2007 | Views [64]
Cant wait to speak english....& have real conversations again. You would imagine my spanish would be awesome after 9 mths but far too much work & not enough study means, my spanish is still rubbish. MY GOD yesterday I found out that i have been ... Read more >
Tags: laughter
PERU | Monday, 18 Dec 2006 | Views [456]
You've got to visit La Bocana. It's this crazy little Peruvian village perched on the sand dunes next to the Pacific ocean, several hours south of Mancora. The whole places looks like it has been blown in with the plastic bag garbage, & one more ... Read more >
Tags: work, animals
PERU | Saturday, 14 Oct 2006 | Views [1427] | Comments [1]
I've just had a great week. I went to the Pacaya Samiria reserve in the amazon jungle. I think it's the biggest national park in Peru. It was incredible! We travelled by canoe for 5 days & slept out in the jungle...on the HARD ground under mosquito ... Read more >
Tags: the great outdoors, animals
PERU | Saturday, 14 Oct 2006 | Views [394]
After 5 minutes of trying to flick the red-brown reptilian like peel from an aguaje fruit, a peruvian woman frustrated with my ineptitude grabs it & descales it rapidly with her thumbnail. I am grateful but secretly hope that she has washed her hands ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
PERU | Monday, 2 Oct 2006 | Views [1836] | Comments [1]
What an incredible adventure! Rafting down the Amazon River on a flimsy bamboo raft held together with jungle vine & a few prayers. It’s the ‘Great Amazon River Raft Race’ - the world's longest. Sure I knew that competing would be tough & ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
PERU | Monday, 11 Sep 2006 | Views [575] | Comments [1]
I've just had the most bizarre experience ever. A vet pal of mine Sheradan Harvey is here to volunteer in Iquitos for a month, & her friend Jeremiah Alley decided to come down to Peru to film a pilot documentary about vets helping animals around ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
PERU | Tuesday, 22 Aug 2006 | Views [324]
It doesn't matter that it's chilly & winter in Chiclayo, las chicas are heading out to flash hairy, white legs & check out the surf at Pimentel beach. Robin, Pam, Mindy & I flag down one of the many dented yellow daewoo taxis that do the ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
PERU | Monday, 21 Aug 2006 | Views [630] | Comments [1]
There goes my street credibility - a wrinkly old peruvian grandma steals my purse, my 10 soles ($4 aussie) & my pride. Third time lucky for the thieves - 1st failed attempt by street kids in Santa Marta, Colombia; take 2 at Belen market in Iquitos and ... Read more >
Tags: Scams & Robberies
PERU | Wednesday, 9 Aug 2006 | Views [919] | Comments [3]
I'm in the desert, toes dipping in the Pacific ocean. I'm in Colan, Nth Peru. How cool to wake up sweltering in the balmy heat of amazonian city Iquitos, jump on a couple of planes, & fall asleep next to the sea, being lulled to sleep by the sounds ... Read more >
Tags: work, veterinary volunteers, asociacion humanitaria san francisco de asis
PERU | Monday, 7 Aug 2006 | Views [454] | Comments [2]
I have 1/2 a day to explore Lima before I fly to Piura in the afternoon. I figure I may as well take the cheap (& safe)Urbanito bus service into central Lima. Good plan, but the bus service from the airport no longer exists, so the only option is ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
PERU | Friday, 4 Aug 2006 | Views [362]
Its a crazy thing, but all flights out of Iquitos are either VERY early in the morning or late at night. And by early I mean 4:30am which is truly a time when I should be either alseep or dancing, but definitely not waiting in an airport queue. I ... Read more >
Tags: airports, animals
PERU | Wednesday, 19 Jul 2006 | Views [4857] | Comments [4]
´Priscilla´ the oncilla (the tiger cat that we rescued from the hideous conditions at Inrena) is now ´Queen of the Casa´. She started off living in the bathroom at the vet clinic, but with escalating temperatures in Iquitos and a growing girls need for ... Read more >
Tags: Work
PERU | Friday, 7 Jul 2006 | Views [806] | Comments [5]
Oh my god! What a fiasco to export a dog out of Peru. Just ask Justin the vet student. I doubt he’ll ever want to hear to words ‘Peru’ and ‘dog’ mentioned in the same sentence again. That poor bugger Justin has been stuck in customs ... Read more >
Tags: i should have known better!, animals
PERU | Thursday, 6 Jul 2006 | Views [1138] | Comments [1]
Wow, I got to treat an oncilla!! The oncilla or little tiger cat is one of the smallest cat species in South America. And this little guy is rare and classified cites 1. The species continued existence is considered threatened. I encountered ... Read more >
Tags: work, animals
PERU | Monday, 3 Jul 2006 | Views [549] | Comments [3]
Filthy conditions, no food or water, an endangered oncilla near death...thats what I encountered on my visit to Inrena, the government animal holding centre in Iquitos. Inrena is the official destination for animals that have been confiscated from ... Read more >
Tags: work, animals
PERU | Tuesday, 20 Jun 2006 | Views [1450] | Comments [2]
Free!!! If you can guess his breed that is. Not always easy when the dog is hairless & his skin is crusty and falling off. After catching the most emaciated hairless street dog ever I was curious what breed would this distinctly alien looking creature ... Read more >
Tags: work, animals
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