Seismo!
Photo: Peter Lee, Anta Papadatou

by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~

Well we sure are getting to be famous guys, aren’t we?

Our mommy Rhea was injured, starving, pregnant, and tied up to an old dune buggy till Peter Lee rescued her.
Photo: Peter Lee

Everybody knows we’re the Earthquake Puppies, raised by our brave and beautiful mommy Rhea during the crazy movin’ and shakin’ quakes and aftershocks here on our little Greek island Kefalonia. That was after our rescuer Peter Lee found her injured, starving, pregnant, and tied up to an old dune buggy.

Richter!
Photo: Peter Lee, Anta Papadatou

But now we have our very own names, so… hey… we’re ready to rock your world!

Dig this… We are such important dudes that two nice people got together and donated 55 euros to the shelter Animal Rescue Kefalonia (ARK) just for the privilege of deciding what we’d be called!

Jolt!
Photo: Peter Lee, Anta Papadatou

We ourselves don’t need donations because RescueDiva.com is sponsoring all our expenses, Anta Papadatou has been fostering us, and Claudia Stellatou is finding us great new families with the help of Rinke van der Waal of Gaia Dogs and Ingrid Kramer.

[Editor’s note: RescueDiva.com’s previous name was SpicyStoriesSaveLives.com. Thus the “Spicy” inscriptions on the photos. 🙂 ]

Anyhow, our mommy taught us to share, so we wanted the donation to go to all the doggies and kitties over at there at ARK.

Geo!
Photo: Peter Lee, Anta Papadatou

Do you think you might be able to send ARK a little something too? There are lots and lots of puppies, kittens, dogs, and cats living at ARK—about 370!  They sure could use your help! Even just a few dollars, euros, pounds, pesos, or yen–whatever ya got!– could go a long way.

Then you could feel happy in your heart like the two people who donated that 55 euros to name us.

Quake!
Photo: Peter Lee, Anta Papadatou

Here’s what they said… “Precious little ones, we know your names might change when you go to your forever families, but for now we hope you enjoy these names in good health and have lots of fun!”

Those two nice people don’t want us to say their names because they’re shy, but we sure can say THANK YOU to them!!! And if they were around we’d make sure we got ’em all slurped up with big sloppy puppy kisses. We’re sending the same to all  you out there who are rooting for us!

Our brave and beautiful mommy Rhea, with Quake on her back doing a photo bomb hahahaha!!
Photo: Peter Lee, Anta Papdatou

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And could you share the link to these articles so that even more people can fall in love with us Earthquake Pups and our mommy?  Of course we know that you already have.  😉

Update: Rhea and her Earthquake Puppies were all ADOPTED! 🙂

Read the good news: Teamwork brings happy endings for chained dog and her puppies

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Katerina Lorenzatos Makris is a career journalist, author, and editor. Her fiction includes 17 novels for Simon and Schuster, E.P. Dutton, Avon, and other major publishers (under the name Kathryn Makris), as well as a teleplay for CBS-TV, and a short story for The Bark magazine. She has written hundreds of articles for regional wire services and for outlets such as National Geographic Traveler, The San Francisco Chronicle, Travelers’ Tales, NBC’s Petside.com, Animal Issues Reporter.com, and Examiner.com (Animal Policy Examiner).

Together with coauthor Shelley Frost, Katerina wrote a step-by-step guide for hands-on, in-the-trenches dog rescue, Your Adopted Dog: Everything You Need to Know About Rescuing and Caring for a Best Friend in Need (The Lyons Press).