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Published: February 12th 2009
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Downtown La Paz
This is the Malecon which is a very nice walkway along the beach area. Saludos, amigos! Nothing but sun and warmth to report from our paradise in the Baja. We know that Michigan is experiencing a bit of a warming trend too! Hope it remains, but......
Saturday I was again in La Paz in search of one of my neighbor's, Betty, little Yorkie, Rosie. Betty and her husband had been in La Paz for a doctor's appointment and then stayed at this B and B owned by another gringa, Linda. Apparently, when they arrived, they were talking and unpacking and I think that when they closed the parking gate in front of the B/B, Rosie slipped out . It was only a short time later when they discovered that she was gone, so they went out and searched the neighborhood, but no Rosie. They then spent all of Thursday looking for Rosie, put up about 250 fliers in the surrounding areas and tried to really cover and saturate the area. Some had reported that they had seen Rosie but other than that, no information. They returned home on Thursday very sad and distraught. Betty felt that she had to at least go again to La Paz and asked me if I would accompany her
and w/ my Spanish perhaps we could get the word out a little better. So we left for La Paz on Saturday at about 7.30 AM. Although I felt pretty positive about finding Rosie, I also realized what a task it would be because La Paz is a pretty sizable city. I would say it is about the size of Grand Rapids. Betty also had an announcement going on the radio.
Off we went and passed out another 100 fliers and talked to a lot of people who were very open to helping to look and pass the word. Betty was also offering a $300 reward so that caught a lot of attention too. The average wage per day here is about $27 USD and the average hourly wage is about $4.25 or lower so $300 is a LOT of money. We spent about 6 hours canvassing a 2 mile radius of where Rosie had been lost and also went down the by the malecon in downtown La Paz and passed out banners to taxi drivers. Betty was pretty down but she felt that she had at least done what she could do to find Rosie and now it would be just a waiting game. It was hard to feel encouraged. We began our trek back to Los Barriles. La Paz is about 60 miles north of here, a beautiful city but rigorous driving. Betty is a very good driver. About 20 minutes outside of La Paz, the phone rang. It was Linda, the owner of the B/B and she had Rosie!! Linda has a little booth at the Segunda shops that she runs on Satudays. She had a flier at her booth and this family stops by her booth and sees the flier and tells Linda that they think they have the dog! So Linda goes w/ this family to their home and identifies Rosie and pays the family the reward, takes Rosie to the groomer who will be ready to be picked up at 4 pm. Back we go to meet up with Linda--a very wonderful woman too! The family had already become attached to Rosie, but they also knew that the dog belonged to someone who was missing her dearly. This family had been in the neighborhood of the B/B that afternoon when Rosie wandered off. She was in the middle of the 4 lane highway that is about 2 blocks from Linda's place and was petrified and almost was hit by cars when one of the family members ran out and picked up Rosie. They took her home so at least the dog was not on the run for days. So all was well and now we were just waiting to be reunited w/ Rosie and so we killed time in the Segunda. Betty was planning to go to the family who found the dog to thank them in person when Linda sees the family in the Segunda. I mean, what luck! They were clearly attached to that little dog and were sad to have to relinquish her but at the same time, they knew it was not rightfully their dog.
I just think that this is such a nice story. We hear so many bad things about the Baja--bad people, druggies, theives etc. Everyone with whom I spoke was so nice and almost every one of them expressed his/her hope that we would find the dog. They were more than happy to pass the word or put up fliers in their shops. This was just a wonderful story with such a positve ending. And Rosie really is a darling little dog! It is hard NOT to like her.
So that is my report from here. I did get to see a LOT more of La Paz and this whole thing reinforced my belief that the majority of the Mexican people are good and want to do the right thing.
OH......I had put up a little bird feeder and a hummingbird feeder as well in hopes of seeing lots of different birds. Well, the birds have found my feeder and I have seen quite a variety of birds but I have no clue what they are! They have become quite bold and fly in and out of the patio area at will. One even flew inSIDE my RV! OMG!!! We generally keep the RV door open all the time. Not anymore. WE are also going to move the feeder farther away!! ha ha.
I will put up some pictures of the birds and Rosie next time!!!
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wonderful news
what a wonderful heart warming story about Rosie, really restores your faith in human nature... bet both Betty and Rosie will have an emotional reunion....well done to you too for the time and effort spent with the search and putting out the fliers.....pondhopper...