It blows my mind how many people are coming this year with dogs they don’t know or understand… and are afraid to let them out. I don’t understand it. In the last 15 days, with the good weather, it has already happened to me a couple of times, especially with foreigners: they arrive with the dog and they don’t let it go, not even by mistake. I see them tense, but not normal tense, piano wire tense? And the dogs the same. And I ask myself: why do they have them? Because the feeling is that neither of them is having a good time.
Yesterday without going any further, a Belgian couple. They were bringing a huge golden retriever -I think the biggest I have ever seen-. They were on a trip, they stopped here. The dog gets out of the car and almost knocks the owner to the ground. But they didn’t let him out, even though at that moment there wasn’t a single other dog, and there was no way for him to escape. I tell them to calm down, to let him go, that nothing is happening… and they say no. Well, it’s their dog, ok.
We continued to the house and again, the woman almost fell in. The dog had seen the pool and was crazy to run. I tell them again to let him loose, to relax, to enjoy themselves. They look at me as if to say “if anything happens, it will be your fault”. Anyway. They let him go… and the dog transforms. It shoots out onto the lawn, rolls around, runs like crazy, goes straight to the pool, gets in, gets out, gets back in, shakes itself right in front of us -even though there are seven hectares of garden, of course-. We laugh. I give them one of the magic towels we have (the kind that dries in two seconds) and the dog is happy. They, suddenly, too.
I show them the bar, the room… and after a while, from the kitchen, while I was ironing -yes, me ironing, hahaha-, I see them downstairs, having a bottle of wine, the dog lying next to them, loose, calm. I go downstairs and ask them how they are doing. And they tell me: PARADISE.
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A curious thing happens at Mastorrencito: people arrive tense and leave smiling. Sometimes all it takes is to let go of the leash for everything to change.
Many arrive with fear. Dogs they don’t know well, who have never run free, and humans who carry that anxiety as if it were part of the luggage. You see them grabbing the leash as if there were a beast on the other side, when in reality there is a soul waiting to run, to jump, to get wet, to live.
And when he is finally released… the magic happens. The dog runs happily, rolls around, jumps into the pool without asking permission. And the humans, at first in shock, end up laughing, relaxing, going down to the garden with a glass of wine, looking at him as if they didn’t know they had such a happy dog.
That’s Mastorrencito. It’s not just a place. It is an invitation: to trust, to let go, to enjoy. To understand that living with a dog is not about controlling everything, but about sharing moments that are truly worthwhile.
And if it shakes in front of you and gets you all wet… well, that’s part of paradise too.
From MasTorrencito we wish you a good day and may your dogs be with you!!!!
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