In one of those areas of Athens where neighborhoods are not really neighborhoods but blocks with huge buildings, warehouses, and construction sites, stopping the car for a few minutes just to check the GPS again to see if you’re lost, since there’s not a single person in sight on a Sunday afternoon, from an abandoned empty building, he appears.
He comes out like a ghost, approaches the car as if he had been waiting for you, and looks you in the eyes as if to say, 'Did you finally come? Why were you late? Let’s go.' You put a leash on him, take him, and leave, because you have no other choice and leaving him there is impossible for you. You can’t betray him even though you just met him a minute ago.
The boy was lucky to come across one of our volunteers. He was very thin, very confused, he didn’t have a microchip, and when asking people working in the neighborhood the next day, no one recognized him.
His blood tests showed that he is very healthy. The only thing he was lacking was good food, and as soon as he started eating properly, his ribs stopped showing, and he began to gain weight.
Cooper is a dog very centered around people, strong, full of energy and eager to cooperate. What he needs to learn is to interact correctly with people, and this will happen over time, when he realizes that with proper communication he will get exactly what he needs from his humans.
He is very clean, walks on a leash, trusts you, and really wants to communicate and do things with his person. Sometimes he behaves like a mature man and sometimes like a baby just out of the cradle, and this combination makes him special and very interesting to us, as we seek to understand his mind, his character, and his soul.
