He's a dog that when you look at him you just don't see anything special. It is a simple, brown dog. Medium size, medium appearance, without anything special that catches your attention.
Entering the shelter you probably won't notice him. Seeing him among other dogs you will also not notice him.
All this until you spend some time with him, and then suddenly, in your mind, there is a 180-degree change. From "one dog among many becomes" it becomes "this amazing dog that is as if someone has trained him on how to be an amazing dog".
Taking him for a walk, even if he doesn't know you and has never seen you before in his life, Simba doesn't follow you or precede you, he walks beside you, as if he's your partner.
On the walk he turns and looks at you, whatever he gets from you in energy, that's what he gives. He's a dog that knows how to be a dog, and that's the best way to describe him.
We brought him from the municipal kennel of Tripoli because he was too thin. He got fat, just enough for his thin, edgy body to show off, and the beauty inside him to finally show.
He is a very balanced dog, with a little hunting instinct that may distract him at times during the walk, but his desire to communicate with people is stronger than his desire to chase something.
He is very intelligent, incredibly trainable, very good with other dogs – he doesn't bother, and the most important is not bothered, and as much as his appearance is common, with his high legs and slender body, when you look at him from afar, he looks like an exotic dog that you would meet somewhere in the African savannah.
Unfortunately, we had other plans for him, and others had his luck. He developed a polyp in his bladder, which was cauterized, and no longer faces a problem that is not aesthetic.
At some point he started limping a lot, and it was found that he had an intervertebral disc projection. From where his leg was dragging it, with cortisone treatment he started to improve incredibly, and now he walks almost normally. His left hind leg probably feels strange – he may feel numb, sometimes biting him.
For a few days he may have to wear a collar, and then he takes it off again, and his life goes like this.
We adore Simba, for his wonderful character and for his incredible strength. He spent a long time in hospital, and the prognosis for him was not good, but he recovered and returned to the shelter. He does not live in a cage, but in the office with us. He's perfect, he's clean, he's used to the crate, and he's a very well behaved dog.
