Here I introduce Ana Rita and Ana Clara. The two of them surprised us one night in the courtyard, completely unexpected. During my first visit to the dog yard in 2017, one of our dogs (Magrela) had just given birth. They had a small separate area in the main courtyard where about 50 dogs live together. This little puppy area had a kind of flap door in the chain link fence, which was always locked in the evening when we went to bed. After the day's work was done, I walked past the flap door, looked at the puppies again and counted whether everyone was there. The door seemed well locked and the pups were all but still quite active. I went to the main house with the kitchen and shower area to prepare dinner. We ate together, everyone took a shower, until suddenly all the dogs howled loudly and a short time later barked wildly. From the window we shone in the direction of the puppy and saw at least one puppy that was not running back and forth behind the fence but in front of the fence and seemed to want to go to the separate area. Dita and I went outside with flashlights and said to each other “the flap door must be broken and the puppies ran out. As we got closer we could already see in the light of the flashlights that the pups outside had a slightly different body shape than the pups we knew. It wasn't one of Magrela's boys, they were two completely strange puppies, estimated to be 2 months young. They both came towards us, a little intimidated, with their tails half wagging, half sunk between their back legs. Dita and I just looked at each other in surprise and said “two new ones!”. We took both of them to the main building in the kitchen to check them for obvious injuries and illnesses. They seemed very healthy, playful and still very young. And they seemed to be sisters. The names Ana Rita and Ana Clara were determined very quickly and we looked for a place where they could sleep in peace and protected for the first night.
You will never forget the little eyes of such abandoned beings who hardly know how to decide between fear and joy. Ana Rita and Ana Clara were the first dogs that I know and accompany from their first day in the yard. The Ana sisters are two of the loveliest and at the same time wildest prancing and jumping dogs that I have met. I immediately grew fond of both because I was unclear how to expose two such lovely creatures. They must have been abandoned because we were down from our hill (on which the farm is located) the next day to go into town for shopping, and discovered a typical box in the middle of the path in which young dogs tend to be abandoned . Ana Clara always jumped up on my legs to get attention, and Ana Rita licked my face, head, arms, neck at every opportunity and never came to an end. The only thing that calms her down is when I took her to bed with me and tucked her tightly in my arms that she knew I wasn't going away and she stayed with me and couldn't fall out of bed.
After I had to leave the dog farm for the first time to go to work in Germany to earn money for the farm, she was very depressed. All the dogs in the yard were extremely calm a few days after my departure, almost eerily calm and slightly lethargic. I could only be told about it, but from the photos I could see that there was really a sad atmosphere in the courtyard.
written March 14th | 2021
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