by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ “This dog does not have Leishmaniasis,” a fellow rescuer insisted. I was urging him to get a pooch he had found in Greece tested for that deadly parasite. “No way,” he said. “I’ve been rescuing here for 12 years. Don’t you think by now I’d know the symptoms?” Then he […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Well we sure are getting to be famous guys, aren’t we? 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 […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Our senior dog Sophia is trapped in the grip of monsters. They are microscopic, but monstrous nonetheless. It’s hard to imagine more vicious or voracious foes. To make matters worse, her enemies did a good job of disguising themselves. Until just a few weeks ago, we didn’t even know who […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ This has been an especially doggy year for an especially doggy family. With the focus on rescuing as many as possible, we’ve now got a bustling houseful of even more pooches than we did last year, and unfortunately one of them is pretty ill. So any holiday cooking around here […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Having sustained my share of “love bites” in the past—to the tune of 50 stitches—I am no longer a very brave dog rescuer. Nowadays I believe that discretion is the better part of valor, as the saying goes. You can’t help anybody if you get yourself hurt.
