Most of the dogs I fed looked hungry... but most of them looked like they were getting by alright. I felt better after I fed them because I knew I was one meal of many that they were getting somehow or another.
Feeding this girl made me feel absolutely no better.
We stopped the car and I got out with a can of Alpo and some dry food. She looked at me for a second and then started to mosey away. I was calling out to her but she didn't seem interested... I am guessing people don't offer her food often so she wasn't expecting it.
I don't really have any more pics from Monteverde because I felt pretty rotten after seeing this dog and couldn't do anything but stare out the window.
I swear, if we weren't ON THE ROAD TO THE AIRPORT, I would've found a way to help her. Brought her to a tourist town. Something.
She was a sweetie with long, floppy ears. And she appeared to be a mama.
Please, if you go to a country where the animals need some help - help them.
This road is the one from Monteverde and is extremely well travelled by tourists. Even if one person a day stopped to give her food, this dog wouldn't look like she was at death's door.
She's about 20 minutes up the hill from Casa Tranquilo, if anyone is going to Monteverde any time soon and wants to ensure themselves a spot in heaven by helping this girl.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
