Pumba came to us togther with him mum and two brothers while we were a at out 8th TNR progman in western Greece. He was only one month old then and still breastfeeeding.
The entire family came to Athens with us. The little one has now grown, and is ready for his forever home.
He is a sweet, chubby puppy, that looks like he is wearing a veyr artistic mask on his beautiful face.
Of his siblings and of all the puppies we brought from the TNR program, this is the most shy. It is the puppy who will not take initiative, but will imitate the rest of the puppies.
If his friends are playing with a toy, he'll try to play too. If his friends run, so do he. If his friends go to people for caresses, he will go last, too, with an innocence and a hesitation that makes you want to hug him and tell him not to be anxious and not afraid, and that he is doing everything well and right.
If you touch him, you will feel the most special coat available in a dog (in our opinion!). It is dense, curly-like, although not long, with hard hair and too dense. Very dense. The fingers do not fit to go inside and reach the skin.
This sheep's coat combined with his innocent character make him special.
Pumba is a dog who wants to be confident, but doesn't know how. Every day he becomes more social in the shelter, every day he opens up more, every day he learns something new.
We love him very much. Maybe it's because he's so innocent, maybe because he's the only one of all the puppies that we remember as if it was yesterday that we held him in our arms, maybe because who knows. We hace our soft spots and he is one of them.
The way he is, like a sheep, with the mask on his face, his long face, when he walks with his clumsy, puppy paws that a little like lifting them but also a little like dragging them, it is like listening to the plaf plaf his feet make in every step.
This puppy will love you, and he will do it in a way that is sweet and discreet.
