From people of all nations to animals of all kinds...

Our week of meetings with YWAM's Western Europe Leadership team came to an end on Friday night. Saturday was full of airport runs as everyone headed home to the different nations of Europe…. and my friends left for Canada, where they'll visit family and run an LDC taster week. I'll be house-sitting and dog-sitting for the next ten days while they're gone. What this means in practice is that I'll sleep at Villa Rehoboth with Brancy (border collie) and Tommy (tabby cat) and do most of my coaching from there during the day. But I'll drive home to Alhaurin every day to check on my own cats and take Buba (my neighbour's English Setter puppy) for her walk. So it'll be a real "animal week" for me over the coming ten days.

As if to kick start my animal week, I had fun this past weekend at the Málaga pet fair, which happens in October every year. Dogs, cats and other animals of all shapes and sizes are there, and my Spanish gets a great workout as I chat with pet owners and breeders from all over the province. The agility demonstrations are one of my favourites (the border collies always win!) but there are also some amazing displays by the canine units of the Guardia Real (military police) and Málaga's Policía Nacional. Vendors are giving away so many free samples of premium dog and cat foods, that the entry ticket is more than compensated for! My own three cats, as well as my friends' and neighbour's dogs are the beneficiaries this week :-)