Happy endings

It took us a long time to write Roxy's ad, and again it will be letria, because no matter what we say, it will not be enough, nor representative. He's a wonderful doggie, and kind, and intelligent, and kind and mannered. 

She was born in the countryside and was thrown away as undesirable - if possible, like so many puppies. She came to us with her sister when she was a one-and-a-half-month-old round, fluffy baby, and she was the most beautiful fluffball in the world. 

At first she seemed to be more afraid than her sister, and it took us a long time to realize that what we were seeing was not only the classic fear of the little puppy who just doesn't know things, but also a wisdom. A weighing of the things and situations of the dog that thinks before acting. 

He was always a careful baby, and still is. She didn't go crazy, she didn't put herself at risk of puppyish naivety, but she was careful what she did and how she did it, and if she didn't know how to deal with something, she simply withdrew. 

When the little ones started learning commands, Roxy was the first to learn sit, and after learning it, she did it at every opportunity. He didn't sit for a second, he sat and waited, as if he understood that this was the good boy's attitude. The exact same thing happened when the girls learned down. Or Roxy and she found out first, and she knew for herself to keep the command, and not to get up right away. This is a kind of intelligence she was born with, and it has to do with her character, even though she is a baby. 

After she goes for a walk, and plays, and does her training routine, Roxy will go out on her own, and that's something few puppies know how to do. Even as a baby, when she was tired, she never reached tension, but chose herself to get into her crate, munch on a toy, retire and rest her body and mind. 

In general, she is an incredibly intelligent creature, very sweet and easy-going, and if her new family works, she will be able to do so.

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When we first saw her, we opened our mouths wide and looked in ecstasy at the incredible patterns on her fur. It was unlike anything most people had ever seen before, at least not up close. 

Some of us were surprised because she seemed too special to have come out like this, and by asking and showing her photo to friends and acquaintances, one of them finally recognized the breed. 

Catachula leopard is very, very rare here. It is an American breed, originally bred as a hunting dog and secondarily as a herding dog, and now, like most breeds, it is also bred as a pet. 

How such a rare dog was found to carry a stray in a village in the Greek countryside we have no idea. Polka was found without a chip as well, meaning either that she was imported into the country completely illegally, or that she was born here. 

In any case, he is now with us. He is a sweet, kind and sociable dog. Because of her age and becasue of her breed, she needs proper and enough exercise and she can be a perfect companion.

She appeared one day in Vytina, a mountainouw village in Greece, as all hounds "appear" out of nowhere. For the first five or six hours she was in the main square, sitting, looking motionlessly at the people, as if something was waiting. In the end what (or who) she was expecting never showed up, and Tina spent three days of incredible anxiety, going around the whole village in panic, looking for what she had lost forever.

Then she started following people, going to them for caresses, looking for a new person to trust and devote herslef to. She was incredibly lucky that two of the people she followed didn't pass her. They took her in their yard and took care of her.

Tina wasn' microchipped, but when she was abandoned she was in heat, and byt the time she got spayed we found out she was already pregnant.

She is a high energy dog, that need adequate and proper exercise in order to be happy and relaxed at home. 

She has spent some time in foster care in an apartment in Athens, and has learned some basic things. She knows the crate, in which she had learned to stay for a few hours, she is clean at home and if she is properly relaxed she can stay calm at home.

She needs three walks a day, in which she will go to the toilet, play and relieve herself, and do some of the commands she knows, so that she works both her body and her mind.

She is wary of strangers entering the house, but when in her crate she stays calm and doesn't bother. She will need to continue her education, which she can succeed in because she is brilliant, and everything she has learned so far, she learned immediately and still remembers after being in the shelter for so long.

From the first day she entered her home in Athens, it was as if she had always lived there, in an apartment in the city, even though she had never lived in the city before, even though she had seen the houses only from the outside.

Carolina was abandoned with her three siblings in a rural village when she was about six months old. Over the next two months she was left alone - her siblings disappeared as strays usually do.

Our volunteer neutered her, and after the sterilization she did not want to leave her again in the village stray, for she was "the easiest dog I have hosted".

Carolina sleeps at night in her bed or in her creet, never wakes you up in the morning but waits for you to get up, drink your coffee, and then go for a walk.

She goes to the toilet outside, smells and walks relaxed, then plays for about ten minutes with her toy in a parking lot or park, and then continues walking on a leash joyfully, doing some training on the walk - Nothing special, just the simple, basic commands.

She comes home, eats, sleeps, can take a toy to munch on her bed, or engage in her kong, and relaxes until her next walk. She hasn't soiled inside once, hasn't done half the damage, is left alone at home without stress or nagging, and lives in harmony with two other dogs and three cats, with whom she is incredibly kind.

She is young, tall, long, with a thin long muzzle, and looks like a ballerina taking a break between workouts.

She's incredibly obedient, and if she's not allowed to do something in a home — bullying the cat when she's eating — she'll only need to hear "no" once, and she won't repeat the mistake.

It is a wonderful, easy-going, incredibly loving and even-tempered dog, who gets along well with all humans and all animals.

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We will never understand how any animal can be abandoned, but with certain dogs we are honestly overcome by the lack of thought, empathy and responsibility that some people have.

Dora found herself on the street in the countryside. Eight-month-old baby, Dogo Argentino. Another victim is that of uncontrolled births, with puppies being sold to whoever they are, just enough to put the money in their pockets.

Also a victim of the incredible lack of understanding regarding the needs of dogs, and indeed of this breed, he fell into the hands of people who bought such a special dog to boast to the neighbors that they caught Dogo with one blue eye, or something like that.

Expensive dog, cheap knowledge, the result was probably that they could not meet her needs.

Dora is a happy, silly girl. It seems from her behavior that in her first house she never learned anything. She was bought by people incapable of teaching her anything, and despite her age she still behaves like a baby.

She is still in her teens, and has time until adulthood and maturity to grow up properly, learn everything a dog, and especially such a special dog, needs to know, and live happily.

Her adoption requires a basic training program from the beginning, with preparation before the dog comes home, and the young person should keep in mind that once Dora reaches adulthood, that is, when she is about two years old, she will have to do some training again, which will be adapted to the adult Dogo Argentino that she will be then. Then he will no longer be a child.