Hope my US based readers enjoyed their holiday:
I can say I am feeling much better about things. My Nai Yang Beach gambit is working out the dogs far better than I could have even hoped for. I had talked to some of the beach hotel staff, the man I rented a motorbike from, and one of the massage ladies about the poisoning that had happened in our area. I have been checking on Daisy and Shadow every day. They have confined themselves to a tight area close to the beach hotel and stay together as mother/daughter pack members. These are excellent signs of dogs that are acclimating to their new conditions.
They are being fed and cared for. A few days ago I brought some of my cheapo dog food which was left over from the bungalow, as I no longer have dogs to feed there. I tried to feed Daisy and Shadow who usually greedily gobbled up anything I put out. Instead they both ate a few bites and looked up at me like “I’m not eating that swill any more.” My guess is that they like the beach restaurant’s leftovers better! Yesterday they didn’t try to run after the motorbike as we sped out of the area. Today they didn’t even get up from their sleeping spot in the sand when I left. They are not enthusiastic to come back to our area.
To be honest I’m jealous of the dogs. This is a video I took this morning today Saturday, November 25, 2023. I saw on Nicholas Creed’s informative post that Thalang, Phuket, Thailand has the best air quality in the country today. That is exactly where we are:
In case you are wondering how long dogs remember their owners, I’m pretty sure it lasts for their lifetime. The longest I’ve been away from a dog we took care of was Oh’s old dog Snow White, who hadn’t seen us in 3 1/2 years when we came back in 2018. She remembered and enthusiastically greeted all three of us. I read a heartwarming story of a young man who had grown up next door to a dog he often played out front with, then his family moved away when he was 10 years old. On visiting the area as a young man 10 years later, the neighbor’s dog, now clearly aged, immediately remembered him. So for me for now I am most concerned that Daisy and Shadow are cared for and safe. Though if the opportunity were to arise I would move to Nai Yang Beach in a heartbeat!
One of the things to emerge from our many travels of late was the faint outline of the oppressive, drowning energy of the land we currently stay on. The longer I am away from there the less I want to ever go back. They are employing increasingly brutal tactics to get people out of there, but the poisoning thing was crossing a line I didn’t really expect them to cross. One of the neighbors has moved his dog out of the area as we did, we found a dead chicken in the road this morning and nobody bothered burying the dead tomcat we found next door until I was able to pressure my reluctant husband about the stench. I tried to help but threw up. I’m not sure how he did it. Killing is not a sterile thing as they’d have you believe.
These types of things have their own karma. Of that I am quite confident.
No revenge killing is necessary. It never ends that way. But boy does the monster laugh!
Yep! I'm definitely a boomer.
Love the Storm poster as well.
The beach looks amazing! No wonder your dogs like it.
I don't suppose you can move there too?