Happy endings

Manto lived in one of the cages in the public pound of Sparta. Apart from the filth, the disease and the starvation that had affected her to the extent that she barely walked the first days, the most impressive of all is how she managed to survive without being simply trampled.

She is incredibly tiny, like a hound that someone somehow shrunk. She weighs as much as a feather and has two huge, wet eyes, that she keeps as open as possible at all times, as if she is trying to satiate the comfort, the cleanliness and the care.

She is a unique creature, ethereal, like a little fairy.

She has now recovered, she walks with pride, and she turns around to the shelter with a curiosity and a zest. You want o stand by and enjoy looking at her and at the same time you want to hold her in your arms forever. 

She is a little thief, and lives stealing food whenever she can. And she loves other dogs, she hangs out with them and usually gives them love bites in their feet and faces. 
 

She's been through a lot and she remembers nothing.. If we had her joy and her zest for life, and we would be the happiest people 24/7, like she is.

She neither remembers anything, nor fears anything. She enjoys every moment, every walk, every person who keeps her company, show is willing to walk her, to play with her.

Her blond head, combined with her two-tone nose and the scar on the tip of the head that makes her smile always look a little odd, do not let you confuse her with another dog.

Rina is sweet, cute and ready to smile at you, and love you like no one has ever loved you before. 

If you are into happy, playful dogs, she is the one.

She was two months old when she lost her eye on the street where she was born. She came to us undaunted and full of zest for life. What if the eyeball hung from her orbit, she behaved as if nothing was happening, and with this optimism she treated everything, as if nothing was capable of intimidating her. Surgery, recovery, collar, stitches, shelter, evacuation, a failed adoption, return to the shelter. Within the first seven eight months of her life she lived and faced all this, without losing herself, her appetite and her enthusiasm for life for a moment. Not a single moment. And in these months that we are living with her the story of her life, we have not been able to feel sorry for her for even a minute. She doesn't let you feel sorry for her, with anything. Korina is a dog with a lot of self-confidence, with energy and willingness to conquer the world, to participate in it, to live. Her mind and body seem to be always ready. Ready to learn, to do, to triumph. They are like these very smart kids, who never have good grades in school. Not because they can't understand, quite the contrary, but because the school seems so much lower than their abilities that they are trying to learn on their own, trapped in a system that cannot help them. She needs a family that will guide her properly, and help her use her enthusiasm creatively, consistently, program, and an understanding of her abilities and needs.

VIDEO of her story

Life for dogs in kennels where they are simply stacked on top of each other, as if they are things crammed into a warehouse is incredibly hard. It is a daily struggle for survival, in the most literal sense of the word you can imagine.

In the public pound of Sparta, hunger, isolation, and unbearable everyday life made the dogs literally kill each other. This girl was circulating among other dogs the day we first walked in, with the tail cut in half, with bites and hacks everywhere.

Our little one has recovered, her woundshave healed and the sadness in her eyes has dissappeared. She has forgotten, she wags her tail and she is happy. All dogs forget, not because they do not have the ability to remember the past, but because they trust the present. 

Ellie is a sweet, loving, social dog, and she is ready for her forever home.