Dominican Republic Day 5-Monday

Monday morning Roy and I went to the preschool class and taught about safety around dogs. (No photos--although the kids were really cute and they loved their coloring books that we brought them.)

Meanwhile others of us were treating animals that we hadn't gotten to the day before.

This calf was getting treated for joint ill (an infection in its joint)

Dan and a little mute boy watching the calf recover.

Isn't he cute?

Here Wayne is getting ready to float a horse's teeth. (File down the sharp points of the teeth.)

Bill, Peggy & Sandy are getting ready to spay the missionary's dog.

 Finally as we were getting ready to leave, it started raining. I'll spare you the picture of the boys taking full advantage of it and taking a shower, soaping up in their underwear.

Waiting while the rain clouds are coming.

 After we packed up, we went to a second village for the afternoon, La Riconada. Once again, we went door to door introducing ourselves and then treated animals as necessary.

I'm making friends with one of the dogs.

Bill's giving advice on a puppy through Kike, one of our translators.

Our translators were awesome! I enjoyed seeing them work with the people to not only give instructions for taking care of the animals, but they also got to know the people and even took the opportunity to share the gospel on their own initiative. They have a huge ministry to the villagers and have a great heart to see them saved!

3 of our translators: McNelly, Kike (Key-kay) and Daniel

Did I mention this was cowboy area? Here's a group of horsemen stopping on their way through the village. 

 While working at the church an ice cream truck stopped by. One of our leaders, Jeff bought us all ice cream. What a treat!

Roy & I enjoying our popsicles on the hot day.

Lots of folks stopped by while we were at the church...some with animals in tow.

 

 This following calf was in pretty rough shape. It was found in a swamp and when no one pulled it out, our team brought it to the church and treated it.

 It was pretty out of it at first, but with a little sunshine and TLC it started to perk up.

Here we are giving it some oral fluids to rehydrate it.

 I'm  not sure if our calf ended up making it or not, but we sure did give it a fighting chance to survive.

Roy and Kike bringing us some refreshing water on a hot day.

After 3 days in the villages and 2 nights sleeping on church benches we were ready to head back to the SCORE headquarters for real showers, AC and a nice bed. On the way home we passed several Major League Baseball training camps.  These are AAA affiliates where local Domincans are groomed and discovered to play in baseball in America. (Can you tell that is Roy's comment? :-))

 

 Home sweet home! We slept super good this night!