Poor Bobby

Started off the day at the vet clinic with the usual cleaning up the mess made the day before. There were no clients, so we restocked the cotton balls. And this means taking a sheet of cotton, tearing it into strips of rectangles, and rolling them around your finger to form a cotton ring. I guess it´s a good way to save money.
I had asked the owners of the house I´m staying at if I could get Bobby, the dog of the house, neutered, because there are way too many pregnant dogs on the street and this should prevent at least a few babies, hopefully. They said yes, and because it was so quiet at the clinic today, I went home and dragged Bobby back with me. Literally dragged and carried because he doesnt know how to walk on a leash and I think he knew that I wasnt taking him to a very fun place. Of course when we got there, he peed in about five different spots inside. Lovely. Watched as the vet neutered him. I guess they do it a lot less often here, so they have much less expertise at it. Usually vets can do a neuter in 5 or 10 minutes in the us once the dog is down on the table, but this took almost an hour. Not quite sure why it took him so long. Then because the anesthesia isnt nearly as good, it took him two hours, as opposed to a couple of minutes, after the procedure to even stir. Scared me a bit that it took so long. He was pretty groggy and drunk looking afterwards, and I havent seen him in a bit, but hopefully he´ll be better tonight. He´s on some antibiotics for the next five days, so I get to be the vet in the house for a while. All of the guys who know Bobby were completely freaked out for him, whcih was pretty funny ' they just arent used to animals being fixed so this seems like something completely cruel to them. But its all for the better. And including meds, it only cost me 30 US dollars for everything. One dog, but its better than no dogs. Bobby is confined now to his dog house for a while, which is tiny, but its better than letting him roam around the inside courtyard caue he keeps banging into things and they dont have a cone head here so he doesnt chew on his stitches.
With the kids.. we only had four kids today, as opposed to seventeen last time. So had to scratch the lesson we had planned. Tried to teach them a little bit about possessive pronouns in asking questions about different people, but they had a really hard time with it. DUring the play hour, I entertained little Lucho, which was fun. We lost the key to the house so had to look around on the field to find it. Was very exciting when I found the glimering gold key in the grass before it got dark.
Then had to go and pick up Bobby´s meds while the others went to a dance class here, which would have been interesting, but maybe I´ll go some other day. We´re going to meet up soon for dinner in the main plaza, I´m hiding out in the internet cafe away from the rain until then. And then desserts. Mmmm I love peruvian desserts.