Some people who lived not far from us owned Paddy. Then just before Christmas 2007, they moved away to Germany, leaving the dog in the garden. A nephew was supposed to be feeding him daily. Haha, once a week if he was lucky! Hard to imagine, isn’t it? What sort of person would do that?…
Bicki was dumped outside our gate in summer 2006, he was no more than 3 months old. We were becoming known, “those stupid English people, they have loads of dogs, we don’t want him, let’s leave him there!” We had to take him in, poor little boy. He was a Pastore Maremanno, an Italian sheepdog.…
Tuppence was rescued in April 2007, just after Squirt. Tuppence was one of the sweetest dogs you could ever wish to meet. We were told of this little dog that had a broken leg and was being chased by bigger dogs. Mino found her, she was not going to be captured easily. Eventually, he and…
In April 2007 Mino found Squirt shut in a cardboard box in the porch of an empty house, near to where we lived. Poor little boy was no more than 4 months old, had no fur, and stank to high heaven. A trip to the vets confirmed he had severe mange. He is a miniature…
Back in early April 2007, we met Piccina, she used to follow one of the local men, she was always very friendly when she saw us, mostly with Mino, but was always very hungry. She was skin and bones, this chap she followed could barely afford to feed himself, let alone all the dogs that…
Flossy arrived in March 2007. I was out on my bike one morning and I witnessed Flossy being attacked by a pack of stray dogs. I immediately came to her defence, by shouting and shooing off the perpetrators. Of course, what happened then, she followed me home. What was I to do, she wasn’t going…
Charlie was rescue number 13. He was no more than 18 months old when he found us! He had been abandoned with a broken back leg. At that time we lived opposite the beach, and used to walk all our dogs there early morning. Charlie would appear from nowhere, and play and run with the…
One Sunday in November 2005, I was walking through the market one morning, and spotted this huge puppy, with this extremely long tail, that almost touched the ground. He was so bewildered and lost. No more than 6 months old. He was an adorable dog. He followed me home and became one of the pack.…
There was a restaurant opposite where we lived, and one of the women that worked there asked us if we would look after her little dog Titti for a short while, as she was currently living with her in-laws. The mother in law didn’t like animals, she was very cruel to Titi. She even left…
Here we were in Italy, there were stray dogs everywhere you looked. Paco was the first Italian one we took in after arriving in Italy. Rescue number 10, what a dog, he had been wandering the streets of Squinzano for some considerable time. Beautiful boy, he fitted in with all the others like he’d known…
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