Just finished a painting of our neighbor's Border Collie whose name is D.O.G. (aka Deeoogee).
She is a beautiful dog. Typical Border Collie - very active, very smart. Sometimes I dog-sit her and we always have a good time. She is holding in her mouth the gift we gave her last Christmas.
This painting is acrylic on canvas stretchers. You can see more of my work here:
We arrived in Costa Rica with just one animal, a cat named Genny. Since living here in Vista Atenas, we and our neighbours seemed to have acquired more animals without any effort at all. They move in and out of our lives.
There is Barney, whom I have written about in previous blog posts. Then there is Scruffy, the dog who appeared from nowhere and has adopted all of us.
This is what it looked like yesterday afternoon at our casa:
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| Genny |
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| Scruffy the Dog and Barney the Cat |
Scruffy the dog appeared today wearing a lovely collar bought for him by our neighbours.
Barney the cat just sleeps all day long on our patio chairs or at our neighbour's house. All three animals get along fine, except Barney will give Scruffy warning hisses now and then and sometimes Genny and Barney smack each other in the face.
This little dog has sort of adopted our neighbours and the neighbourhood in general.
He just appeared one day, with a limp which gradually improved. He has decided that he will bunk out at our neighbour's house but still visit all the surrounding houses for food. He shows up at our gate just about every day, with that adorable little face cocked to one side and tail a'wagging, waiting for his biscuit rations.
He has now acquired the name "Scruffy" which suits him - his coat is quite wiry. He is not neutered but is a very polite fellow and loves being around people. He pays cats no mind and never barks except to alert.
I wonder where he came from.
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