so now we're just walking around and finding dogs whenever we see them laying
there breaking up some food so she said there are a lot under the bridge a lot
of dogs there
30 to 50 dogs living in this small little area Wow
- keeping each taxi because of covet dogs like this that are born in the
streets and left there
we're all like some whimsy we're two travelers who are exploring South
America suddenly a strict lockdown began in Peru and we've been stuck ever since
along the way we took in a stray dog and he hasn't left our side it's been months
and we're still here so we're documenting the whole
experience and sharing it with you good morning guys it's day at 90 of our
lockdown here in Cusco Peru and today we're doing something really exciting
that we've been looking forward to for a really long time we're gonna walk and
tell you a little bit about it on our way so we're on our way walking right
now to the San Pedro Church to meet up with a member of an organization that
we're teaming up with to help stray dogs and stray animals in general the name of
the organization is called the Cusco protección de animales so we're super
excited to be helping out these animals we're gonna be feeding watering them
helping with spays and neuters and we're also gonna be helping with vaccinations
so guys this all started with the GoFundMe for mr. Potatohead
you guys were so generous that we got a little bit extra money that we aren't
gonna use for him but that we're able to use for the other strays the animals in
Cusco that needs some help and if you still want to donate to it it's still
open and the link is down below so if we get any more we're gonna also add that
to it and continue doing this so everything you're gonna be seeing today
is all because of you guys look at this view
so guys this is our first time going out before 9 a.m.
and since lockdown ended and there aren't many people out more and more
people are coming out in cusco as time goes on in the lockdown starts to lift
but the mornings are still awesome
all right so we're going to be mixing a dry dog food at some camp chicken and
then some chicken I call together because the dogs like that better than
just the plain dry dog food we have to put some clothes on to mix it so we're
going to do that right now because the chicken we're going it before
they don't trust in people that's why they are like yeah I don't want mom we
are going to leave because sometimes day
so right now we're just walking around and finding dogs like these all over the
historic center of Cusco whenever we see them laying here bring them some food
and they love it so much so as you can see with the last one
sometimes these dogs they won't come up right away to get the food even if
they're hungry because they don't trust people because people will kick them or
hit them and push them away if they come up to them so a lot of them don't really
trust us so you have to leave the food and then you come back to them after
no the blue chicken please
tiny little cash for the tiny little dog protector
yeah thank you so she said there are a lot under the
bridge a lot of dogs there 30 so we're gonna go below the bridge where
we can hopefully find a lot all at once so this dog just followed us I think he
smelt the food coming from the bags
get all of these dogs
just take it out behind me we just fed all these dogs in this area
gotta say tonight
you know and I'm getting followed so the area
that we're in right now is where a lot of dogs are because it's so close to San
Pedro market so it's more easy for them to get leftover food scraps bones
there's literally 30 to 50 dogs living in a small little area coming up on an
area with a ton of dogs so these ones are not used to being around people so
we're not allowed to touch them look at this they're all getting up they know
good people when they see them Oh
alright guys so now we're going to a new area so we're getting rid of all the
food right here and a bunch of lines around here so the dogs can find it
later we're gonna go and do some of the spay and neutering part of this job so
just two years ago is when the first laws were in place to protect dogs
before that people could poison the dogs without any repercussions they could
abuse them they saw them as like nuisances so things seem to be getting a
lot better here over the last 5-10 years and it's only really fast now and people
like these were with two people now they're the ones that are helping the
situation so we're glad to be a part of it help aid spayed get some vaccines for
some of these dogs it feels so good to directly be making a difference and this
organization has been around for 13 years so they've done a lot of great
work all right guys we're taking your taxi to go to an area where we're gonna
capture some female dogs to spayed and we had to take two separate taxis
from Nina gross because they only allow two people in each taxi because of
colvett they can't have anyone in the front seat and here you need a seat in
between it looks like they don't allow anything anymore you would have been
able to do three or four people in taxi before but no only two so as we were
talking to her more I was very interesting to learn about how camions
they view them the story of a security system not a part of the family and they
don't choose them very well always so she said that the female dogs are not
wanted at all people want the male dogs so but don't get cared for so a majority
if not all of the dogs that we were just with a second ago that big group under
the bridge a lot of those females nobody's taking them in so we've
heard some pretty crazy things here about what they did to gods one thing is
they will poison dogs because there's an overpopulation of dogs and they just
don't care or they want to get rid of them and poisoning is just one of the
things that we've heard of the other thing she was saying is cars do not slow
down for dogs they actually think it's kind of funny she said she's seeing
people laughing as they speed up to try to hit the dog
so there's definitely a big need here to help animals so if any of you want to
help out no obligation but if you want to you can feel free to give to the
GoFundMe and that money will go towards us hands on helping the dogs and to this
organization is over there the Kimmi wanted oh they put her over here at the
police station in the shade and it looks like they're gonna take her in is a
medicine for chocolate so that's the date for dog food
sometimes they feel the tape
this other one is Ankit so we need to make sure we get her spayed soon so
she's cute so it's working on this girl right here
she's eating the chicken that has the tranquilizer in it so in half an hour
she'll fall asleep and then they will get them in order to spay and neuter
them so today we're focusing on this girl right here the chickens next we
captured our very first dog to get spayed look at this little one she's
very sweet and friendly
we're going to the doctor's office or the vet's office so we can get them
spayed
so it's a hundred soul is to spay or neuter a dog and that also covers one
night of recoveries so that's only like $30 in the United States they charge
around $200 or more so that's why it's great to be able to help in Peru because
our dollar will go a lot we'd maybe be able to help one dog in the US but we
can help ten with the same amount of money here
so the reason why Spang the female is is so helpful is because dogs can have
really big litters like up to ten to twelve puppies
they have two litters a year
female dog for $30 that's for stray puppies also we realize that not
all Cuse quino's are bad two dogs we're just kind of going off of what a lot of
people have told us in our comments when we've read online what does organization
and aside is that the dogs are not treated in
general very well in Cusco
the mom had seven puppies and here's a few of them right here
and we're gonna help them with all their vaccines so because of you guys were
able to help these little puppies and get them their vaccinations so there's
many different ways that you guys can help if you're interested you can
sponsor financially to help out puppies spay neuter z' for food for the dogs
also another way that you can help is if you want to foster yourself you can help
foster puppies and one great thing if you do decide to adopt from this
organization and help out is they cover the vaccines they'll help with spay and
neuter around five months old so you don't have to worry about anything if
you want to adopt this organization we'll take care of the vaccines and spay
and neuter and any other help you may need so another awesome thing if you're
not from Peru but you're still interested in adopting a peruvian dog
and helping save a dog's life you totally can do it because there's
this program called pet wings and so they help set up the transportation you
just need the right vaccinations and you have to pay for the flight and the
kennel but you can get yourself a dog from Peru if you guys want to donate
money to this organization the Facebook page is called Cusco protección de
animales and you can send donations there or to their website
Oh
you can help this little guy right here look at that face oh so like we said
earlier there are a ton of dogs and crews Co a ton of puppies everywhere
being born on the streets so if you want to help out in any way then you know how
to do it can't believe that there are dogs like
this that are born in the streets and left there alright now we're gonna watch
a space packing I'll show you a little part of this so before the dog undergoes
surgery they make sure that the heart lungs are healthy so you listen Savard
lungs they way they're going to know how much anesthesia to get this give her
some antibiotics
treatments for you-know-what cleaning out the area so this is where dogs
recover for one day after they've been spayed or neutered all right we just
wrapped up our day I think we helped quite a bit
we're hoping to do this again if we can there's a lot more to be done
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