We've been incredibly busy in the last week and the work hasn't slowed one bit. Thankfully Doug is back from the states to share the load. We have a team of students here from the states, all doing varying research on livestock and dogs in the areas that we are placing our Bankhar.

Besides their individual projects, they have helped do a general health check on our pups, implant identification microchips and will be analyzing intestinal parasites. Three of the students are vets and are taking blood, milk and fecal samples, from livestock and/or dogs to analyse and identify different parasites and compare them from region to region within Mongolia and to livestock in the states. And one engineering student is here to field test new technology, a 3D printed field microscope which can take pictures of cell samples in remote parts of the world and send them away to be evaluated. All rather intricate things I don't fully understand. Regardless we are having a great time in the countryside, the herders are interested in the results and tomorrow we leave for the Gobi. This time to place the remaining pups with host families...

Since I have not had the time to upload any recent photos, take a look at Soyolbolod's Flick'r for some better photos.

Here are a few from our more recent trips to the countryside...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/soyolbold/with/18884160550/