Princess Kali Amanda Gets Her Chance
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ When you love dogs, really love them, you need a mantra. Not another one. Not now. I said it over and over when I first saw the little yellow Labrador a week before Christmas 2011.
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The patience of Penelope: a Greek street dog’s odyssey from abandoned to adored (Part 1)
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ In Homer’s epic tale The Odyssey, set some 3,500 years ago in the Mycenean era of Greece, the story’s namesake hero King Odysseus leaves behind his beautiful young bride Queen Penelope on their Greek island while he runs off to fight a war, slay a giant, sleep with sorceresses, and […]
Patience brings rewards in animal rescue: chained puppy freed, finds loving home
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris / Rescue Diva ~ In 2011 I traveled to my family’s home island Kefalonia in Greece to try to repair our crumbling old house in a little village. The plan was for me to be there for only a month, while The Saint (my hubsy) soldiered on at home in California, […]
Causing panic or saving lives? Controversy over rescued puppy’s gruesome death
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ One month ago today, I received word from the Netherlands that our sponsored puppy Theseus* was quite ill. It came as a disturbing surprise. For the weeks prior I had been seeing lovely photos and cheery descriptions of him and of the six other puppies we had sent from Greece […]
Should you buy a puppy to save him from a pet store? One rescuer’s creative solution
by Paley Frances ~ Even a year after my cross-country move to Vermont, I was still homesick for Los Angeles. I missed my friends, family and animal rescue compatriots. During one of my frequent visits back home, I was asked to speak at a protest against a Beverly Hills pet shop that sold dogs, allegedly […]