Today we were in Punta Gorda doing our delivering, “hailing” and the usual town stuff.  In Punta Gorda, everyone knows you so you have to go through the custom of “hailing.”  Ignore this at your peril!  Basically, you need to say “Hello, how are you?” to everyone that you know…who happens to be crossing the street, sitting in their shop, driving in their car or standing in the queue in front of you.  If you can handle a bit of small talk then that is an added bonus because every-one loves to stop and chat. If you ignore anyone who knows you, you are considered an “ignorant outsider” or just plain rude.  These are the unspoken rules of a small community.

We delivered our Pet Products to The Farm Store in Punta Gorda.  This particular shop is owned by Mennonites (Anabaptist Christian Group who emigrated originally from Germany and now settled in Belize) and run by local Mayans who have converted into this particular faith.  The Farm Store sells anything to do with farming, hardware and pet supplies, basically, anything that is useful to man or beast!  We delivered the following:

This is not the same as our same-name soap for people.  This one has a higher percentage of active ingredients so that it is extra strong for the treatment of fleas, ticks and mites in pets (usually dogs and cats).  Gentle but effective, without the use of strong chemicals.

We also took this opportunity to launch our new pet product: Lime Sulphur Pet Dip for Mange, Fleas, Ticks and Ringworm.

This is the label with the instructions.  We used recycled beer bottles for this product because they are the cheapest thing to use so that we could sell the product at a rock-bottom price.  Gnome created a tag to go with the product with regards to the philosophy of recycling; unfortunately, the network connection to the printer wouldn’t work so we didn’t get this part printed in time.  So, this tag will be on the next order:

…Gnome Philosophy stuff in small writing for anyone who cares to read Gnome humour.

We use all our stuff on our own pets; they are very healthy and have the reassuring smell of sulphur to them:

This is a picture of the very friendly bossie of the Farm Store.  He is a lovely young man:

So, you can now get our pet stuff at the Farm Store in Punta Gorda.  The products will be posted up in the Apothecary soon for those of you living outside Toledo or outside of Belize.