Our Story

For the first post, I thought I should say a little bit about who we are, why we are in Ecuador and how we got a dog here.

First of all, I'm Taylor. I am currently teaching English in Quito, Ecuador. I am originally from outside of Chicago, IL. I live with my boyfriend, Ryan. Also from IL. We've been together for 3 years and we've always known we wanted to get a dog. It wasn't until about a year ago that we decided on a breed: boxer. Ryan is also an English teacher, so both of our schedules are really flexible. We've both never had a dog before. This is the first.... HELLO LEARNING CURVE!

We bought Chuki in Quito, on March 5, 2010. We're planning on taking him home with us, back to IL, in May of 2011. Then to Korea sometime later in 2011. That's a lot of traveling for a dog, we know.

Ryan and I weren't English teachers back in the States. Ryan worked retail and I was working in fundraising. The long and the short of it is, we were tired of boring jobs and being overworked and underpaid, so we got our TESOL certificates and here we are. We've never regretted it and we've never regretted getting a dog.

Living in Quito with a dog is really not  a problem. The problem is that everyone is afraid of the boxer breed. Really anything bigger than a schnauzer is too big here in Quito. So, it's been hard in that sense. But more on that later.

What I'll be sharing with you on this site is where you can go in Ecuador (specifically Quito) with a dog. How you can get there and what you can do while you're there. I'll also share other little pieces of information that come up along the way.

I'm making a gross generalization here but I would assume that the dog atmosphere would be similar in most South American countries. So whether you're moving to Ecuador, you live in Chile or you're traveling through Colombia I would assume there are major similarities.

If you have any questions or if you know of an easier way to do things with a dog, please please please let me know. seriously.