Happy endings

With her delicate figure, her cute snout and her sweet sad eyes, she came from the public pound of Sparta and looked like a sad princess. So we called her Sissy.

Sissy recovered, she gained weight, grew beautiful, her sad eyes shined, and her coat shined as well. She is no longer sad, but she has something that still makes her look like a princess.

She stands there and smiles, sits like a good girl and waits for you to give her a treat, she looks like she grew up with manners. And if she was forced to lose them somewhere along the way, she never forgot them.

Sissy is a young, sweet and good girl. A dog with a very special face, a person of her own, and a love and trust in humans that are based in kindness. 

Until we came up with a name for her, we used to call her "the beautiful one". Alcmene was in a cage full of dogs in the public pound of Sparta, and passing only from outside you distinguished it.

Even in there, it was as if this dog was shining. It seemed at first that it was a bit of a flute, a little bit in her own world, but she is not like that at all. She is a very human centered animal, enjoying exclusivity and craving it.

Her beautiful coat has recovered, and she has become silky and velvety, and her ears are shaking back and forth when she comes to meet you. She runs to greet anyone who comes to the shelter, and her favorite place to sit is the kitchen, with us.

Hecabe was in the most horrible cage of all in the public pound of Sparta . All we first saw was a black, feral dog with mange. That's what we knew about her, until we found out she's ten years old.

Ten years old means that a dog is elderly, that it does not have the same endurance, that it has more needs, that it needs more care and that it deserves more respect. Who knows her past, where she came from, how she ended up there, what she remembers and what she doesn't. For a ten-year-old dog, living in this way acquires an even more tragic dimension.

This dog looks like a heroine of an ancient Greek tragedy. At first she didn't approach us at all and as we looked at her from a distance, her tragedy seemed in all its glory, without anything being able to hide her.

She has now begun to open up, to approach, to take treats from our hand, and she also enjoys the caresses of people she knows well. She has a sweetness in her gaze and a gentleness in her ways, which makes you want to spend time with her, makes you want to help her understand what she has already begun to suspect. That people are good, that life is beautiful, and that love deserves her trust. 

We had seen Nikos at the public pound of Sparta, outside the barbed wire. He was tied up in the distance, and from afar he looked dead.

Of the 44 dogs we got from there by prosecutor's order, Nick looked the sickest. However, all his tests showed nothing, apart from a dog that had been left to die of simple starvation. He arrived one step before death literally, but began to recover and from day one he had an appetite for food.

He has gained back his strength, but he remains skinny. He is a large, imposing dog, that deserves only respect, and his recovery is a huge relief for us. He is currently only available for virtual adoption only.

Eliana is the happiest, the most easy-going, the most loving dog in the whole world.

Even if she carries on her back a diificult life, coming from the public pound of Sparta 

Eliana loves the whole world. Even when she has her friends around her, she always prefers to be next to a human and be petted.

VIDEO of her story

"The grandmother with the string around her neck", that's what we called her in the beginning. For a while, each of us referred to her by different names each, until we ended up in Vaya (meaning wet nurse in Greek).

She is elderly. So old that her muzzle is whitewashed, and she was in a cage in the public pound of Sparta with at least 11 puppies. We found her in a small house, trying to protect herself. And at this age, she probably didn't know what to protect ehrself from. From the filth? from panic? from the hustle and bustle?

Imagine how much fuss, how much constant noise eleven puppies make in a cage, and imagine how intolerable this is for an elderly dog, who on top of that is also starved for who knows how many days.

Sarah is one of those dogs that have a calmness and a stoicism.

Maybe it's age, maybe it's just her character. She looks gorgeous when we look at her like that from afar, it almost makes you think that now that she is old she is more beautiful than she was in her youth.

She is currenlty available for virtual adoption only.