Today we say goodbye to Alma. She's been with us since June 2018, and left us after a short illness.
In 2018 she was posted on facebook as hanging around the Almacen del Installador. When we needed some things there we saw her. She had a chip, registered to someone in Cordoba. Phone numbers did not work. The DNI of the owner was not accessible to us, but to the police it was. The owner was an elderly woman, who gave her to her daughter in Cuevas. That daughter said she had given her away, and did not want her back. Yeah, right.
We could have left her with the police, who would then send her to the council pound. We gathered that would not mean much good for Alma, or Luna as she was actually called. So she became dog no. 4.
Alma means something like "spirit". But, as she was found at the Almacen del Installador we called her Alma.
Alma never was the easiest of dogs, always in front of your feet, and present at the slightest hint of food. Or even the possibility of food. Anything edible or inedible ended up in Alma. Fallen figs, ripe or not, olives, ripe or not, and <unspeakable things > as well. When we got her she weighed 9 kg, the past few years 12! The vet called her a "comilona".
Quite unlike Alma she stopped eating a week or so ago. She started smelling too. Kidney trouble. At 12.5 years that is not good news, and we had to let her go.
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