The last day on Jost and the terrible attack

Man. I could use another vacation already. I have not been good at posting posts (there's a good sentence for you!) because we had a terrible terrible thing happen on Thursday evening.

Our beloved sweet adorable wonderful gentle kind doggie Koty endured a vicious attack from a neighbor's dog.That's our adorable Koty boy on the left with the fishy in his mouth. He likes to "help" us when we're fishing!

This rotten, angry, evil American bulldog (related to pit bulls I'm told) came flying out from behind a the owner's house, unleashed. The thing went immediately after Koty. It glommed onto Koty's throat and that was that. The damn dog would NOT LET GO of Koty for the longest time. It felt like an eternity. I was certain that Koty was going to die right there. The owner finally came out and started punching and kicking the dog, Dan and I did the same, but this dog was DETERMINED to kill our poor boy.

Needless to say it was the most horrifying, terrifying thing we have EVER seen.

Turns out that the dog's teeth just barely barely missed Koty's jugular vein and his trachea. Another 1/8th of an inch and the story would not have ended as well as it did. As it is, poor Koty had to undergo emergency surgery. They had to cut away skin that was too traumatized to save and then he had to have 100 stitches and a big, gross drain put in to drain all the excess fluids that build up from such a terrible gash.

We are very, very thankful that our sweet boy is still alive.

Moral of the story? If you have a dangerous dog like that, please move to the country where other people and dogs do not have to be subjected to your animal. Man. SO scary. I worry now that if that dog ever gets loose, I can't imagine what it would do to a smaller dog. Or if I was out with our two older dogs walking by myself? I shudder to think what could happen. Really scary.

OK. That's enough of that. I don't even like to think about it any more.

So, I could use a vacation again, okay?

Let us re-visit Jost Van Dyke for one last time, shall we? The following pictures were from our last day there. Always the saddest day of a vacation, right? Knowing you're returning to snow and cold. YUCK!

Here is a short video of the view from our beach chairs!


The view from my husband's perspective:
I love that photo!

Here I am having a drink called a pain killer on the beach:
Do you know from the pain killer? They are SO delicious! They are a combination of sweet coconut, orange juice, a vat of rum and grated nutmeg. TO. DIE. FOR. delicious!

Here is the bartender at Ivan's making our drinks:
Love Ivan's!

Here we are with this really nice man that we met the first night of our trip.

He and his wife were from Minnesota and this was like their 20th year vacationing on Jost! He brings his guitar each year and jams out with some of the locals at our favorite eatery on Jost, called Corsair's. You'll see Corsair's in this video - this is the burgeoning metropolis of Great Harbor on Jost:

It's quite the downtown, eh?!! Love it!

And, last, the sunset on the beach with my beloved husband:


A wonderful, fantastic trip! Can't wait to go back!

Hope you enjoyed our travels, as well!

Send good, healing thoughts our way. Our doggie is on the mend, but he could use some good ju-ju.

Bye for now!