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GREECE | Friday, 4 May 2007 | Views [1782] | 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 | Monday, 18 Dec 2006 | Views [721]
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 [3541] | Comments [2]
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 | Friday, 4 Aug 2006 | Views [596]
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 | Friday, 7 Jul 2006 | Views [1646] | Comments [8]
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 [3115] | Comments [3]
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 [881] | 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 [2256] | Comments [3]
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
PERU | Thursday, 8 Jun 2006 | Views [771] | Comments [1]
What a great day! Fantastic to get out of Iquitos for the afternoon away from the noisy motorcarros, clinic dogs & general mayhem. Just a 20 minute boat journey down the tranquil Nanay River & I’m in paradise…..Pilpintuwasi. This means ‘butterfly’s ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, animals
PERU | Monday, 15 May 2006 | Views [765] | Comments [11]
Ask any foreigner in Iquitos about Belen market & they will answer “muy peligroso” (very dangerous). “Don’t wear your watch, or take a camera, & definitely don’t spend more time there than you have to”. Good advice it may be but when Belen ... Read more >
Tags: work, animals, amazon cares, iquitos
PERU | Monday, 15 May 2006 | Views [1091] | Comments [1]
It’s wonderful to be back in Iquitos to volunteer with charity Amazon Cares & to help the abandoned cats & dogs. Iquitos is the kind of city I love to live in. It’s bursting at the seams with people – 400,000 more or less – many of whom spend ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, animals, amazon cares, iquitos, veterinary volunteer
PERU | Tuesday, 9 May 2006 | Views [296] | Comments [2]
My hostel in Lima “The Flying Dog” has a very chilled out resident ginger tom cat called ‘Slappers’. What a unique & novel name & surely the 1 st I’ve met. Slappers is a rather relaxed individual who ambles about the hostel & sleeps ... Read more >
Tags: work, animals
PERU | Tuesday, 2 May 2006 | Views [593] | Comments [1]
As always, it's great to be back on the road. Six weeks in Australia was relaxing...chilling out with family/friends. Heartwarming... petting my long suffering cats who finally acknowledged my presence after I was home for 2 days. Educational.... ... Read more >
Tags: travel tips, animals
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