El Tuito. The name is derived from the Pre-Hispanic language of Nahuatl and has several possible meanings, including "Little Valley" and "Place of Beauty."
Carratera 200 is a two-lane "highway" leading from centro Vallarta to el Tuito, thirty miles south. This is very much a curving, ascending road that takes an hour´s driving time. After passing Boca de Tomatlán, the road leaves the coastline and most of the palms behind. Gaining altitude, the trees are often oaks, cedars and conifers. The last fifteen or twenty minutes of driving is green and straight, with cows and horses in pens and corrals next to the road.
This is ranch and farm land filled with fruit trees - lemon, mango, orange, lime, guava and avocado. The small town is known for its panela and Oaxaca cheeses, as well as honey, agave nectar and raicilla, a popular tequila-like drink.
The Plaza de Armas, the town square, resembles a western movie set - long adobe and brick buildings surround the bandstand and two enormous, glorious "Maria" (tropical evergreen) trees.
Just off the plaza is "Valle Azul," a simple and good restaurant for Mexican food and pizzas. Also good, but blocks away, is "Mi Pueblito." For serene days and nights, Rancho Primavera with its three rental houses, is a few miles east of town. A bird watcher´s heaven, the 200-acre property has a large pond with long board and rowboat, lap pool, two dozen free roaming horses, numerous trails and thousands of trees. https://ranchoprimavera.wordpress.com/
COAPINOLE - a quiet, tree-lined Puerto Vallarta neighborhood with mostly dirt roads and simple homes. A 30-minute drive northeast of centro,
the PEACEANIMALS clinic took place in the front section of a private home. Almost directly across the street, vendors were busy painting dozens of large clay pots to sell.
A block away is an uninviting, murky green lagoon surrounded by a tall cyclone fence topped with barb wire. On the morning I was there, a few dogs on leashes and a couple of small children in strollers were circling the cement path adjacent to the crocodile-less lagoon.
STERILIZATIONS AT CLINIC IN COAPINOLE
Male Dogs - 16;
Female dogs- 45; Male cats - 32; Female cats - 44; TOTAL: 137
DONATIONS AT CLINIC IN COAPINOLE - 1,230 PESOS
STERILIZATIONS AT CLINIC IN EL TUITO
PLUS pregnancies terminated for 1 cat with 5 fetuses and 1 cat with 7 fetuses.
DONATIONS TO PEACEANIMALS:
Tim Rush and Tommy Fisher - $500 USD - "In honor of our friend Ralph Osborne." (Ralph is a director of PEACEAnimals).
Juanito Osuna - $3,000 USD - The matching gift to donations requested and made to PEACEAnimals by January 1, 2019.
Transat Airlines - Free transport of five boxes of donated dog and cat collars and leashes plus kennels. Therese Gerelus and Ted Wakefield flew down from Winnipeg with these collected items.
Margena Ricciardi - 3 new dog leashes and 2 new dog collars
Maureen Curtis-Evermann - $100 USD (earmarked for extra gas/driving time for el Tuito clinic).
EDUCATION PROGRAM: On Tuesday, January 29th, Leslie Caratachea presented to 80 students at the Venustiano Carranza school in Ixtapa.
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| PLAZA DE ARMAS- EL TUITO |
Carratera 200 is a two-lane "highway" leading from centro Vallarta to el Tuito, thirty miles south. This is very much a curving, ascending road that takes an hour´s driving time. After passing Boca de Tomatlán, the road leaves the coastline and most of the palms behind. Gaining altitude, the trees are often oaks, cedars and conifers. The last fifteen or twenty minutes of driving is green and straight, with cows and horses in pens and corrals next to the road.
This is ranch and farm land filled with fruit trees - lemon, mango, orange, lime, guava and avocado. The small town is known for its panela and Oaxaca cheeses, as well as honey, agave nectar and raicilla, a popular tequila-like drink.
The Plaza de Armas, the town square, resembles a western movie set - long adobe and brick buildings surround the bandstand and two enormous, glorious "Maria" (tropical evergreen) trees.
Just off the plaza is "Valle Azul," a simple and good restaurant for Mexican food and pizzas. Also good, but blocks away, is "Mi Pueblito." For serene days and nights, Rancho Primavera with its three rental houses, is a few miles east of town. A bird watcher´s heaven, the 200-acre property has a large pond with long board and rowboat, lap pool, two dozen free roaming horses, numerous trails and thousands of trees. https://ranchoprimavera.wordpress.com/
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| ARBOL MARÍA - PLAZA DE ARMAS - EL TUITO |
COAPINOLE - a quiet, tree-lined Puerto Vallarta neighborhood with mostly dirt roads and simple homes. A 30-minute drive northeast of centro,
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| COAPINOLE - VENDIENDO |
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| LA LAGUNA EN COAPINOLE |
STERILIZATIONS AT CLINIC IN COAPINOLE
Male Dogs - 16;
Female dogs- 45; Male cats - 32; Female cats - 44; TOTAL: 137
DONATIONS AT CLINIC IN COAPINOLE - 1,230 PESOS
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| CLÍNICA EN COAPINOLE |
THE CLINIC IN COAPINOLE WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE GENEROUS DONATION OF $1,800 USD FROM SUE AND BOB BARR, FRIENDS OF BOARD MEMBER OFELIA OSUNA MCHUGH.
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| CLÍNICA EN CASA PARTICULAR EN COAPINOLE |
EL TUITO: Kai Doyle, a retired school teacher from San Francisco, organizes and hosts the annual clinic in el Tuito. This includes raising funds for the extra expenses of gasoline and driving time for an outside Vallarta location. Pet owners came from as far away as Chacala, an hour-and-a-half drive. A male cat named "Chapo" whose his owners said always escaped from their home, escaped from a kennel.
And, happy ending, Kai adopted a "very sweet" mostly black with splashes of white street dog that had been collected from the plaza for spaying. Her name is now "Amor."
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| "AMOR" - RESCATADA, OPERADA Y ADOPTADA |
STERILIZATIONS AT CLINIC IN EL TUITO
FEBRUARY 2/-13-2/16: MALE DOGS - 19; FEMALE DOGS - 66; MALE CATS - 17; FEMALE CATS - 33; TOTAL: 135
DONATIONS AT CLINIC IN EL TUITO: 3,460 PESOS
THIS CLINIC WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS GRANT FROM FOHA (FRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS).
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| CLÍNICA EN EL TUITO EN LA CASITA DE KAI DOYLE |
DONATIONS TO PEACEANIMALS:
Tim Rush and Tommy Fisher - $500 USD - "In honor of our friend Ralph Osborne." (Ralph is a director of PEACEAnimals).
Juanito Osuna - $3,000 USD - The matching gift to donations requested and made to PEACEAnimals by January 1, 2019.
Transat Airlines - Free transport of five boxes of donated dog and cat collars and leashes plus kennels. Therese Gerelus and Ted Wakefield flew down from Winnipeg with these collected items.
Margena Ricciardi - 3 new dog leashes and 2 new dog collars
Maureen Curtis-Evermann - $100 USD (earmarked for extra gas/driving time for el Tuito clinic).
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| CLÍNICA EN COAPINOLE |
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COST PER SURGERY WEEK CLINIC (3.5 days) IS APPROXIMATELY $1,800 USD. PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION VIA CHECK, CREDIT CARD, PAYPAL, BEQUEST, OR STOCK TRANSFER. Note: Stocks are transferred at full value without the donating stock owner being taxed.
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