Mother Love ~ Amore

This is an uplifting touching Amore video, enjoy!

Giove and Fox and Me

Giove (Jupiter) is doing fantastic after his surgery, and he is so full of joy and happiness. Even the vet thinks he is such a sweet dog. When the same vet went to get Fox his comment was, "Gosh, he is so strong."

Fox is a 40 kg dog who's never been walked before, and he pulls. Mightily. Last Saturday when my husband took him out, he hung after Fox like an old rug. I was laughing so hard that my tears rolled down. My big strong husband didn't think it was funny!

But, that means that Fox is going with me to an obedience class this Thursday!

And I who dislike obedience classes! I always look like the biggest idiot among everybody, and I am always dressed wrong, and I am always freezing. See how passionate I am, I rather pick poop for a whole week (well hey there, I already do that) than walking in the rain hanging after a dog who doesn't listen.

Ok, we want to give Fox a really good chance in life. Even if he is a 40 kg heavy dog with a mind of a four months old dog. Stay tuned for lesson number one this Thursday

(For you who doesn't know Giove or Fox, read earlier blogs)

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Picture taken by Dr Inga at the local beach of her rescued dog Bella the Amore!

What A Wonderful Weekend

It's been like a Swedish summer today, we loved being outside today after what has felt like a long period of rain and dreary weather.

We brought home our two kids from the kennel over the weekend, and it was wonderful. Twelve dogs in the house and everyone got along so great. Ariel and Nebbia are two of the dogs we rescued from the "terrible shelter" back in February. (more on earlier blog)

Nebbia was labeled as "aggressive" and sat alone in a small cage. When I met her the first time I knew it wasn't true. And it isn't. She's been tested several different times, in different ways, she lives together with Ariel. She's been with us at Carney Park playing with many different dogs. And, now this weekend, together with the whole pack. She is brilliant.

That's the danger when you label someone, the label sticks and it takes some great heart to see past the label and give them a chance (same goes with humans). If Nebbia wouldn't have told me that she was a kind-hearted dog, God knows what would have happened to her.
Nebbia the "aggressive dog" is resting on our patio and Roberto, who also comes from the same place (remember him with the ligament injury, also earlier blog). Roberto is doing great, happy, yappy and charming and his leg is completely healed.

Ariel has been in four shelters, her whole life; Nebbia in only one but they think for three to four years. Neither of them had ever been inside a house and it was so sweet to see them standing in the doorway, kind of thinking "what do we do now?"

We had to lift them in and they walked around just smelling and looking and then they laid down on their blankets and cuddled up with us. I am so proud over our pack, they are great Amore dogs.

One Day In The Park

You remember I wrote about the chained Labrador that is up for adoption. We went and picked Stella up from the kennel and took her to Carney Park. She was fantastic.

Little over weight but she ran, played with other dogs, a great working dog too, she learned so fast.

Fox was very insecure, everything was a little scary. This big goof had never seen grass or played with other dogs.


Of course we brought one of our own Zara. She was dead tired after a fun afternoon playing with

former strays in the beautiful park. It was a playful Amore day.

Love in the Air

(Earlier blogs about Fox )
I have to say both these breathing male souls are very sweet. One is still up for adoption, the other one stays home with me.
But both have great big Amore hearts, and are kind of goofy.

Morris Medication Memorial

Animals Without Limits wants to thank the organization Chans in Sweden for their generous donation. Thanks to them, we can continue our work on the streets helping the wonderful strays.

Medication, prevention and spay and neutering will be done in Morris' name and memory (see previous entries last weekend).

We will work in the territories he lived in, helping others who may share his diseases or circumstances, document and prevent, return every week to make sure that no one suffers in pain.

Also we want to thank Linda who donates one bag of dog food every week.

Now, we can feed the hungry ones in Morris' area as well.

All money goes to veterinarian care, that's what AWL's Amore policy is about

Thank you so much to everyone who make our work possible.

And by the way, Giove is recovering great from his hernia surgery that he had yesterday.

Happy and playful! Wouldn't we like all our patients (human adults) to be like that?

Others in Need

I got a phone call from another Animal Worker who wanted to ask me what to do with some dogs (5) that are trapped in an empty warehouse area. Two of the dogs are pregnant. I went there to look at the situation. Traffic around the area is horrible.
The phone number posted on the fence didn't exist, and the company name.... well, nothing.

Currently we are feeding through the gates and providing water.

This fantastic Animal Worker called the Carabinieri (national police), and hopefully they can do something.

I think we need help!

A Picture ~ A Hope

This is Giove (Jupiter) from "the terrible shelter" I think many of you remember this picture from past blog entries.

A wonderful Swedish journalist Erika, followed our story --- me and AWL --- and is making a reportage for an upcoming new magazine. I sent pictures, she visited the blog and fell in love with this little guy. Thanks to Ylva who took this picture, now Giove is going to have a family for the first time.

After "the terrible shelter" was closed the dogs from there were taken over by LEDA, an Italian organization. I went there today and picked up Giove. It is one month between the pictures.

This is Amore, Amore. Erika thanks for making this guy happy!

Mission Morris

Bella, one of our wonderful reader, sent in a donation today in Morris' name. She suggested that she wanted AWL to help other dogs with medication on his behalf.

That made me think "what a wonderful idea", a focus area as a memorial to a long suffering soul who really touched my heart well beyond the time I knew him. (And judging from the comments, his plight touched many others, too.) To go on "Mission Morris" and medicate strays to prevent them from what caused Morris' sickness in the first place.

Why does one have to give his life and suffer for us to work harder?

Don' t let us forget Morris, let his work begin through us, to show his spirit that his life taught us something about ourselves and others.

He didn't judge us even for what the humans had caused him.

Morris, my little mini Buddhist! Let us show you that we can change.