That’s pretty much all we have been doing the past few days.  Even though my mother and I eat exactly the same thing she has been nauseated for a few days so we can’t really go anywhere.  Steve arrives Tuesday and will take a bus here from Puerto Vallarta.  There is a bus every 20 minutes and the trip takes about an hour.   It’s going to cool down from the low 80’s to 74 tomorrow for a few days and we might even get some rain.

This property next door has a small RV park too.

My mom is looking good for being 83.  No photo-shopping and no surgeries either!

On our way to shopping downtown, we cross a bridge over this lagoon.  There’s just a narrow strip of sand between it and the ocean.  Guess I could have chosen a sunnier day for this picture but I don’t normally carry my camera since I’m always lugging groceries. 

I received emails from a few friends and they all assumed it was a Mexican that killed the dog.  The man and his neighbor are Canadian.    Here’s the other kicker:  The RV park owner and his wife are active in the local rescue group for dogs and cats.  There are volunteer spay clinics here in the Jaltemba Bay area every year.  This RV park has volunteered their property at least once that I know of to host a clinic.  They also donate money. The wife goes to local Mexican schools to educate children on caring for animals compassionately and getting them spayed.  So that makes this tragedy all the more tragic.

Another friend advised that I should contact the rescue group for advice which I did.  I didn’t name names but just asked what should be done with animals like these and that maybe they could publish something in the local newsletter on what alternatives people have when encountering a sick and mangy dog.

Here is the response I received:

Hello Eve…we treat dogs with mange ALL the time successfully!!!! What trailer part are you at?? How horrible!  There is absolutely NO need to kill dogs with mange.  The type of mange (there are 3 different kinds) our dogs have here does not seem to be contagious.  I have fostered many of them in my home with my other dogs and no problem.  All we do is give the dog doxycylina which is a type of penicillin readily available at Dr. Aldo Barba.  His phone number is(045) 322 148 9999 and his address is Vasco de Gama #20 in La Penita.  Turn right at the middle light on the highway in La Penita and go almost one block.  His clinic is on the left.  The medication can even be put onto my bill for street or homeless animals.  THERE IS NO REASON TO BE KILLING DOGS for mange.  Tell him Linda sent you.

I wrote back and gave Linda the perpetrators name and asked her to wait until January 14th to talk to the perp and to talk to the neighbor also if possible.  I also asked her to write me after that and hopefully she can relay an assurance that these people won’t do this again.

Linda’s email was copy furnished to at least six other people.  I’m sure all the Canadians and Americans living here know each other well.  It doesn’t make me feel good to know that I’ve probably ruined some reputations.

Rincon and La Penita actually run together but they are so different.  Rincon is a tourist town full of hotels and restaurants and tourist gift shops and from what we hear it pretty much closes up after Easter.  It’s also a big vacation destination for the Mexicans from Guadalajara over Christmas and Easter.  Right now the beaches are mobbed and hotels are all booked and there are tour busses parked as far as you can see. 

 

Rincon has about 7 RV parks but there is one that is co-located with a hotel known for being extraordinarily nice and also difficult to get into because it is usually full, has 6 sites, and can only take shorter RV’s like ours.  And any day now there will be many more motorhomes arriving in this area.  Therefore if this RV park passed muster I wanted to get a spot reserved.

Here’s the pool and the ocean right behind it

The small hotel with beautiful landscaping.  The RV sites are on the left with greenery between each spot.  If you go online and look for hotel rooms on the beach in Rincon it is hard to find anything for less than $100 a night.  This hotel has rooms with a kitchen, wifi, and cable TV for $50 a night.  Maybe you could bribe me for the name?

And here is the lucky site that is going to park Tulip on January 14th.