Happy endings

Blind dogs have something special. Living with them, you can't imagine what it would be like if they could see. The lack of vision becomes so much part of themselves, it shapes the way they move and communicate, the way they perceive the world, that in the end the dog you love is this. The dog that he does not see, not the dog he would be if he saw.

Chloe is about a year old. Essentially she's still a baby. She lost her sight very young when at some point she suffered from hepatitis - which is very rare, so rare that we have never seen it before. With treatment she managed to regain a minimal percentage of her eyesight. She sees something. Maybe he sees shadows, maybe some shapes, and probably has a sense of perspective.

When she is in a place she knows, she moves normally, so much so that you wonder if she is indeed almost blind, she runs and plays as if nothing happens, and this happens with all blind animals.  

When she is in aun unknown place, she needs a little more guidance, and a little patience until she feels this new place, and understands it with the rest of her senses.

Beyond that, she is a sweet and amazing creature, as are all dogs like her. Velvety, tender and airy. And when she feels at home she runs like crazy, to the point where it makes you wonder is she is a fully seeing dog.

She does not suffer from hepatitis, he is just a carrier. It is not contagious, nor is it as frightening as it sounds. She needs some monitoring, and her eyes need treatment with eye drops, but she is essentially healthy. And she is looking for a home.

"The nice one, the brown". That's what we called it at the beginning. Returning from the public pound of Sparta with 44 dogs, all sick, some very urgent, others less, until we had time to put them in order, to take care of the hospitalizations and to get to know them even a little, many had simple nicknames.

There was "the beautiful", the two "pinschers", the "wolf dogs", the "old lady with the cord", the "old ladywith the tumor" etc. Well she was "the nice one". Because she was nice, and she still is. She is a good dog. An easy dog, gentle, cooperative, calm, nice.

In the end we called her Margarita, but sometimes we still call her Margarita the nice one. She is about four years old and is an animal that we really like - apparently you have already understood this from all the above description. She has never caused us any problems. From the first day it was as if she does not exist, she has a discretion and a calmness that almost make you forget that you have a dog next to you. 

Countless conversations we have had and are having about all the dogs, what character one has, what the other needs, which one is getting along with which, which one does not get along with anyone. For her all the discussions we have had, if we wrote them on paper, would not fill a single paragraph. She never caused a problem, she never had issues, it's as if she came with her perfection to live with us.

And just like that, she will one day take her perfection, and she will go to live with her family.

Our good boy came at the beginning of the summer of 22, with wounds on his body and soul, from those wounds that life on the street leaves you with after abandonment.

An English Setter mix, who was born to work, who probably worked for some years, and either fell ill and abandoned or was abandoned and fell ill, it does not matter. He came sick and ematiated, but he was one of those dogs that you knew that as soon as he feels better, he will smile, he will wag his tail, he will play and he will be happy.

And that is indeed how it happened. Taco is today a sweet, friendly, cheerful creature, a dog that has remained innocent and pure, and that is now ready for a family. 

Listen. This is Lazarus and his ears do not fit whole in the photo. In addition to his ears that you look at and look at them again until you make sure that these are really his ears, he also has those eyes that you see. And basically not the eyes, the look.

This moist, sweet look, and the a little hesitant, the little shy. And Lazarus is hesitant and shy. He has probably spent the first years of his life roaming the mountains and hunting. And probably at some point they got tired of him, abandoned him and he fell ill, or first he fell ill and then they abandoned him, it does not matter. 

What matters is that we now have him, and his life from now on will be different. This dog has a discretion, and a nobility at the same time, which is a combination that amazes you.

He is hesitant with people he does not know, but despite his hesitation he is very cooperative, and he is also tender, in a gentle and discreet way, as if he does not yet know whether he is allowed to enjoy love and care or not. 

A black and white sheep with two orange ponytails on the sides of her head and a soft wool, from what you put your hand in and it's like putting it in foam. This is Ino.

She walks on a leash with her sloppy paws and then sits on the grass with her hair pouring out and mixing with the lawn and leaves. She is a puppy who has the grace of the baby dog, and at the same time has the tranquility of the big dog, who knows how to calm down and who knows how to coexist.

Ino has already gone through the prison program, where she stayed for a few weeks in an environment resembling that of a house, and learned some basic things that dogs that live with humans should know.

She is looking for her forever home and we really want her to find it soon. Not only because she deserves to grow up with a family, and not in the shelter, but because it is a pity that all that her incredible age has to offer, that one does not enjoy it exclusively. Someone who will love her every day, all day.

Kitta was named after the small village she was living in, in Southern Greece. She was roaming the streets, like a ghost, very ematiated, and looked as if she had given up on life. 

One of the residents of that village told the volunteer that was trying to feed her not to, because "it's not a dogs, it's a jackal"

She was rescued in the end of September 2022, and she is currently being treated for ehrlichia. She is underweight and has numerous sores in her body. Her appetite comes and goes, and she is struggling to stay alive. Although she looks old, at the time of her rescue, she was only seven months old, so basically a baby.