I love this picture of Fisher!! This is how he sleeps sometimes – doesn’t look very comfortable huh?! So yesterday the vet – Dr. Thomas came over to the house. A couple people have asked about Fisher and wonder why he is going home? I am taking him home on February 27th when I go back to the states for my cousins wedding in Washington D.C. I make a pit stop in Little Rock and hand him off to Justins parents. Before we left to come to Dominica we took the dogs to the vet to get their annual check up done. They run numerous tests to make sure they’re ok, etc, etc. So about two weeks after being in Dominica, Dr. Bob (our vet) calls and tells us that Fisher has heartworms – again!! So he has to go home to get these treatments over a period of about 3 months. Yes he has always had the right medicine and we have given it to him every month but our vet said that he is just in this rare group that doesn’t respond to it. So the vet was here because he had to make sure Fisher was healthy enough to leave and to give us a permit for him to get out of here. Actually I didn’t tell Dr. Thomas about Fishers heartworms – because you never know why they wouldn’t let him out of here. We just told him that he needed to go home because he wasn’t “adjusting” well to the island. Which is true. He is actually crying and whining right now because Wilber (the goat) is at the end of the pasture closest to our house and that drives Fisher crazy.

So here’s a crazy story……..
One of the spouses and her husband got broken into last semester. She has three dogs here and thankfully they didn’t hurt them. They cut the bars off of her windows and broke through the screens. So she tried to do all the right things afterwards – file a police report, etc. Well when the police came over they told her if anyone ever broke into her house again and she was there to please kill them and drop them in the rainforest or ocean somewhere. They said they aren’t going to search for the robbers after the break in and if no one saw her when she “dropped them off” she would be fine. So a gun might be our next purchase down here. I mean – we slept with a gun under our bed in Little Rock – why wouldn’t we here?

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