Happy endings

Don't ask us why, from the day he came to us he reminded us of an agent, but not exactly James Bond, you understand.. So we called him Clouseau.

And no, we didn't do it to make fun of him. Clouseau has what small dogs that think they are big dogs have. He has courage, he has audacity and he also has confidence. Even if he weighs five kilos.

The first years of his life were not ideal. He lived on the street and lived in despair. He came to us with a ligament rupture, underwent surgery and did very well. He is probably the smallest dog in the shelter right now, and it's the dog you say you don't want to notice.

He's fearless, he's courageous, and he's loving. And he thinks the shelter and all of us belong to him. He is a kind and tender dog, looking for a family to love and respect him, and he in return will give a lot of love. 

He is not ideal for young children, they stress him. And we don't want Clouseau to be stressed because when he's stressed he makes mistakes, and he shouldn't understand that he's not the most perfect secret agent in the world.

He is vaccinated, neutered and healthy.

We named her Serpantina, which is Greek for carnival streamer, because it was around the carnival season in Greece that we attempted her frist photo shoot. And as she was messing around the streamers and rolling with them all excited, we came up with this name, which for her is very suiting.

Serpantina was a puppyish puppy, very happy, and incredibly cute, who saw you and immediately wants: to play, to run, to be petted, to show you her belly, to show you her floppy ears, to lick and enchant you, and all this she wanted to do at the same time.

Now she is a teenager, with all the above characteristics, plus a few extra pounds. 

Serpantina is a beautiful, intelligent, playful and lively dog. She plays, runs, rejoices, chuckles, takes a toy in his mouth, then plays with the other puppies, then comes to you for petting, then runs again. 

She has a lot of energy, both because of her age and because of her character. She loves water. Whether it's a hose, a children's pool, her water bowl or the sea, Serpantina loves water - as if we knew, back in the winter, we had first photographed her in an empty children's pool. 

She is a dog for a person who wants a dog to do things with him, for excursions, for hikes, for agility. She is not a dog that you can walk on the block and be happy. With proper exercise and training, Serpantina can be the perfect pet, because there's nothing she can't learn, and there's nothing she doesn't want to do. 

Since he was a baby, Dustin has had the most huge and expressive eyes.

Even when he was recovering in the vet cage, we would hug him and with his huge round eyes he would look as if inside they could fit the whole world, and as if no more eyes existed to see the world anyway.

He was responsible for being seen by all mankind.

And in general, it is true,he's been in pur arms a lot as, firstly because he stays there silently, and secondly because it's mainly when he's in a hug that his eyes are so glaring.

We adore him.

He is special, and you'll have to get to know him to understand it. There is something about this puppy that makes him seem to be one of the personalities that overflow from his body and coat and spread out in the surrounding area.

After he recovered and had all his vaccinations, we started taking him for a walk to the estate around the shelter, and now he goes to the beach and the wind blows his fresh hair, his baby clothes.

He's started doing both chisa and poop on the walk – huge progress for a puppy you know, and he's happy and exploring the world, and he's overjoyed.

We have a soft spot for Dustin. Because he deserves it. He is a baby who is both loving, and happy, and trusts you and follows you, and is ready to learn, to know, to smell and to live.

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When he first arrived with his brother, they both looked old. Mnage and hunger had made two puppies who should have been like little flowers who jsut started to blossom llok old dogs, both in appearance and behavior, as if they were tired of life.

We promised to give them back their lost childhood. The older they got and recovered, the younger they would look, so we named them Benjamin and Button. And that's what happened.

Benjamin started looking like a puppy again. He finally got out of the clinic and started learning to play with toys, have fun and enjoy what a puppy should enjoy.

He has two wonderful ears that are neither up nor down, they are straight to the side, horizontal! And he has two cheeks that look like he's swallowed a bee that pinched him, two cheeks that you want to squeeze and squeeze.

He is a very sweet puppy, and he is slowly learning the world little by little with a freshness and a tender hesitancy, which makes him adorable. 

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Many years ago, long before various other breeds that started coming from abroad became fashionable, the only hounds in Greece were these, the Greek ones.

Thin, black with tan, maybe even a little white at times, and with that black stripe on the head that starts wide from above, like a parting, and thins as it descends downwards and disappears between the eyes. That stripe that makes these dogs always have a look of sadness.

Every time we meet such a dog it is like we travel back in time.

He found himself with a rope tied around his neck, thin and confused, wandering here and there in a village, looking for something, without knowing what exactly. He would stop outside houses and yards, and look inside, at people and their lives, lives of which he was not a part of.

He was not one of those hounds that roamed alone without approaching anyone, but a social animal, requiring human contact. Wherever he lived and however he lived, he somehow socialized, and we want to help him find the family he needs

He is house trained and excellent. He is clean, obedient, and quiet. He lives with two cats, goes out for a walk, sleeps in his bed, and eats his food when you serve it. He is very good with other dogs, and of course with people and with everyone and everything. He is healthy, very young, and ready for his forever home. 

The amount of not only dogs but also people who are wronged because of appearance alone does not really need to be analyzed. We see something or someone, and at first glance our brain jumps to conclusions automatically, without us even realizing it. There are countless studies studying this very thing, but we are not here to do such analyses.

All we want is to talk to you about Indy. Not for the Indie you see, but for the Indie we know. Not for what she seems, but for what she is. She is essentially a puppy, completely pure and good. She is tender and incredibly human centered, full of zest for life, appetite to learn, appetite to enjoy what this world has to offer her.

She's great with cats she's lived with, she's incredibly affectionate with people, young and old (she's grown up with a young child), and she's good with dogs.

We ahve to be honest, we were afraid of the latter. We are also guilty of what we said above. We judged her before we even met her. And that's why we're trying to apologize to her somehow. 

Indy was bought for the wrong reasons like many dogs of her breed when she was a two-month-old baby. When she was seven months old, her family just didn't want her anymore. In this she was unlucky. But she was lucky because she didn't end up in the wrong hands a second time, like dogs like her do. She came down to us.

Her lovely ears and wagging tail are in place, no one has had time to ruin her, no one has had time to make her something she isn't. She remained a good, sweet dog. A tabula rasa. 

Indy is looking for a new family. She is a good dog, and a dog that needs proper exercise, and proper handling, in order for her and for the people in her life to be happy.