A lifetime raising

I cannot have any pets here in Santiago. They are not allowed in my house and I don’t have the money to take care of one. But they can stay in my grandma’s house. There my grandma lives with my two dogs, Tani, a half German Sheppard, and Chaucha, a Chilean terrier. Both were gift from my uncle Francisco.

She always had at least one dog with her since she was a child. It was like a habit of the family, not only for company, it was also for protection and surveillance of the hen houses. They were so important in the family that I know more about the old dogs of my grandma that my own relatives. For example, I know my grandma had a big pure blood German Sheppard named Atila, but I don´t know the names of the siblings of my grandmother.

Along my sister, we raised the dogs and taught them everything. We do it differently from the city, for example we don’t care about bathing them or if we go out for a long time we can leave them in the house with food, and if it not enough for them, they just hunt some rabbit, chicken, mouse or bird!

They are great dogs, very loyal especially to my grandma. The house wouldn’t be the same without them. I feel they belong there more than me.