Final days in Todos Santos

We have a few days left in Todos Santos. This means that we will be setting out at 6am to walk around all of the Cantones that have been involved in the dog control project. We are hiking for approximately 6 hours a day, looking for stray dogs. How do we know the dog is a stray? It is not wearing one of the collars that we distributed earlier on in the week. The stray dog will be sprayed with red vegetable dye and counted, sex included. This will enable the epidemiologists know how many starys are in the towns and how effective the VWB project has been. However, I think this is going to be difficult owing to the drastic reduction in numbers of strays around town.

It´s highly likely that a small number of locals have been feeding chicken laced with strichnyne to the dogs. This causes the dogs a long a painful death. Sad, but this is how they have been handling the problem.