Canarian Cowboys and Preposterous Pets

If there was a large number of both people and cattle at Buenavista yesterday, then there seemed to be an even greater number - and, it has to be said, much better weather for taking photos, if not for walking around in the heat - at Los Silos for their Fiestas for San Antonio Abad and Crafts Fair the week before.

The craft fair was held in the square around the kiosk, as well as inside the bunting-decorated former convent.

At Los Silos were many horses, more goats with red ribbons, sheep and a ram upgrade, a fully-grown mini-goat, tweetie-pies, rows of racing pigeons and, as in Buenavista, an ever increasing number and diversity of pets.

At this fiesta, to which animals are brought to be blessed, or at least gawked at, there were far too many dogs to count and, besides, they seem rather boring and ordinary next to some of the more exotic and unusual specimens.

People brought rabbits in hutches on wheels. There were large reptilian chaps on leads. Many people seemed to have a snake round their neck or wrist and, a young girl brought along a small basket of lettuce (with handle). This last item, I discovered upon closer inspection, was not a salad, but a tiny little turtle or tortoise.

Risking a serious lynching for my cheek though, the prize for "pet who most looked like owner" (or vice-versa), must surely go to this dear little old wrinkled lady, who had brought along her turkey, on a string tied round his leg. :)

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 Migue Mora wrote (on January 28, 2008 7:36 PM)  

ja,ja,ja Perdona que me ría, Pamela, pero ver la palabra Canrian Cowboy y debajo esa foto del mago con su palo y sus vacas, es de escándalo. Está claro que un cowboy es un vaquero, que no deja de ser un pastor de vacas, pero joder, uno espera ver a John Wayne cuando se habla de cowboy.

Saludos!!