He had enough!
A woman that was dog sitting this
hooligan contacted me, also saying it didn’t work with the Puppy. He was a
destroyer!
His name is NATO and he is a strong
22 kg puppy. It was of course over the Easter holiday, when most everyone was
gone or otherwise involved in family time.
Even without the holiday, not many would like to volunteer for such a
challenge. I asked the foster mother for some time.
I contacted my Swedish volunteer
Maya, could she help me find a home, and quickly? At the same time NATO needed a passport, and
to get a passport in Campania, Italy isn’t the easiest. It’s always complicated, changes to opening
hours, and procedures, and then to find the office is a challenge. Our
volunteer Sharon (UK) offered her time to pick up the foster-mom and NATO, and together
drive them to the passport office. At the same time we were working 24/7
interviewing people in Sweden, making home visits, several phone-calls every
hour to various possible adopters. I knew NATO was special, and it would take a
special family to take him in and not damage him further. We couldn’t afford having
him going back and forth to different families.
Maya loved the idea to fly down and
pick up NATO and another dog. I took my Birthday money and bought a plane
ticket (thank you Minna (SE) for helping me booking the ticket—flying with
animals.) Our wonderful member Henrik (SE) sponsored the dog tickets.
Maya flew away from Copenhagen,
Denmark to Rome, Italy where I had sent her the train guidance and timetable
going to Napoli. Our other great volunteers Martina and Pio were waiting at the
train station and welcomed Maya. She was escorted to our hospice to meet her
dog that she had adopted, Leona. Leona
would come a little later to Sweden. I couldn’t bear the thought that Maya
would be in Rome over the night without meeting her beloved dog, if so only for
one hour. Martina and Pio escorted her to Hotel Agora, our wonderful friendly
hotel. Our volunteer Barbara (US) had donated a night stay there for Maya. At nine
o’ clock that evening came the foster-mom and her husband with NATO. NATO slept on Maya’s arm until it was time to
leave at 0400 in the morning. Flavia and
her husband were outside the hotel waiting with the English Setter, Eva, that
was also going to Sweden. Our volunteer Patrick
(US) came at 04.15 and drove Maya, NATO and Eva to the Rome airport (a 2-hour
drive) and helped Maya put the crate together and since we knew that NATO was a
Houdini escape artist they put duct tape and white plastic zip-ties to secure
him. Patrick left, and Maya went to check in the dogs, only to know that you
had to take out the dogs and weigh the crates and then put the dogs inside. On
top of everything, we’d tranquilized NATO since we were worried he would go
wild. I told Maya to use her beauty, and blue eyes to get help. A security
guard helped to secure NATO again.
At Copenhagen two hours later, were
the family was waiting and they loved NATO. They had borrowed a car to drive
down from Gothenburg. Eva went home with
her family, adored and loved. Sadly, the boy in NATO’s family developed an
allergy to him after several days, but we had kept contact with the most
disappointed person that wanted to adopt NATO originally, Henrik (different
Henrik than he who donated the tickets for the dog-flights). He was over joyed
and jumped in the car, and drove 4 hours to pick up NATO and take him home. He
loves NATO.
When I asked him if NATO was
horrible, Henrik laughed and said, “He is not horrible he only wants company”
That’s Amore.
Thank you everyone in this big
mission. One dog, one big crew! Happy Tears!
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