Heading down to Napels Italy Shelter Mission

MISSION TIME

With my best volunteer we drove down to Napoli, Italy again. We were so exited and with the SUV full of dog food that we bought in Germany, we were even more exited. --Thank you for your donations, we cannot do this without your help.

We picked up beautiful Nicky and brought her with us to Rossella Shelter. A shelter AWL helped during 2009-2010 and now we are back. Rossella had moved and her shelter was top. Nice and clean.

Its a tough job carrying all these heavy bags...but who said we couldn't. Getting nice summer arms.

As always so many beautiful souls. This guy was so happy to get love and company. He is waiting for his home.

Another little cutie.

Two cuties having a conversation.

Rossella has worked with rescuing dogs for over 30 years. Amazing since it is a very tough work with no salary.

Love and hugs when we got to see each other again.

That's Amore!

SPAY AND NEUTER PROGRAM 2011

This cat was having so many kittens, now caught and sterilized. Thank you Angelina!

Terrible picture, but it is a female puppy in a shelter. Rossella shelter.

Whisky....finally! Thank you Martina and Pio.

WALKING, BATHING, CLEANING, FEEDING SHELTER MISSION

Another wonderful loving day at Rossella shelter last Saturday morning, we gave many as possible a bath and love

Remember a month ago the sad picture of a very sick Fiore. Here he is, doing so much better its amazing. Now they could cut of all his horrible fur.

And more love, and bathing...it was a bittersweet moment. It is always heartbreaking to put them back in their cages. But with love and stimulation they have a better luck to find a home.

We brought the dog food that had been donated earlier in the week with us.

And yes, the twins Shelly and Gabby were working really hard and beautiful. They carried, bathed, and walked the shelter dogs, and the whole time with a great attitude. Thank you so much Shelly and Gabby, have a safe trip back to the States.

And our trooper volunteer Olivia, who took out the mother and gave her a break and a bath. Of course some Amore afterwards to.

Olivia so wanted to take out Tiger and have him washed. For 30 minutes she was standing by his cages yelling....we gave up and Leah helped her. Thanks Leah for treats and the hard work, it is always a pleasure having you with us in the team.

Aha, Yolanda well that was a hard working woman. She even washed the cages. Yolanda, you rock! Thank you so much for giving these dogs a very good day.

And we carried and carried, and we also had some medicine with us...not much but it will help some. (Leah had all the colourful leaches around her neck)

More puppy love!

And thank you Elaine (Public Affairs) for coming out making a story about our work and hopefully inform people about the situations.

Thank you; Mark, Elaine with her beautiful twins Shelly and Gabby, Yolanda, Tammy, Leah, Olivia

Towels Lynn and Tammy.

And Anna who stopped by before going to work with a big bag of dog food. Thank you for helping making a difference and for your love. That's Amore!

WASH--WALK--RESCUE DAY

Last Saturday we went to Rosella's shelter for walking and washing dogs (and food donation). The sun was warm and we were a group of 10 that did fantastic work. It is great when the team is doing well together, helping and laughing too. Then one of the volunteers Megan came up to me and told me that there was a German Shepherd bleeding badly.

A very stressed German Shepard was chewing up his tail, his scream was heart breaking. I told Rosella she needed to take him to the vet, or he would bleed to death otherwise. I got him out of the cage and as soon as he felt something around his neck he screamed and jumped like a wild one, then attacked his tail (what was left of it) I took his face in my hands and spoke to him, he calmed down and his beautiful eyes searched after help. It was difficult to get him out he was panicking in between, and I guess it looked worse to me with all the blood. Rosella couldn't deal with the blood, the new volunteer couldn't do it either, it became like a circus. I told everyone to calm down, that their energies would affect him more. I got him in the mini-van and our volunteer Mark sat with him since he went into panic attacks.

Not long after they left for the vet, they came back with him! The vet told them we should wash the tail and give him antibiotics.

I got so mad and everybody heard me cursing in Italian. We couldn't touch his tail, he screamed and then putting him into a cage on wet concrete, he would just keep bleeding and get infections if he didn't bleed to death first!
I was so mad, what an incompetent veterinarian who doesn't give his client treatment! I took the German Shepherd into my SUV and with Olivia drove him to the vet team LegaPro. Dr Gigi got informed and he agreed together with Lorenzo that what was left of the tail needed amputation. They said they would keep him for 10 days! You see that is what I call service!

I call him Jessie. Jessie is so sweet and will die a slow painful death if we return him to the cage, that I call the death cage. He is young, sweet and needs so much confirmation that he is a handsome guy who never will be hit or tied up. A forever home? A foster home? Hope?

Thank you AWL team for all the great work you did, Vania and her friend Megan with Husband Jason, and Megan's mother and brother, too (a wonderful warm hearted fun family). Reece (who made me think of chocolate the whole time) Darren our trooper trimmer, and Mark always with us, Lindy our great walker. Without you AWL is nothing. THANK YOU This is Amore

SATURDAYS MISSIONS

AWL is sponsoring two dogs from Rossella shelters to be steralized. Thank you Pio for driving them to LegaProAnimale.

Giada is her name a wonderful lady who finally nursed all her puppies and could be steralized now.

Some time ago AWL had Diana Pit bull sterilized too. We got good news yesterday, she got a home! Congratulation family for getting a wonderful "friend"

AWL SWEDEN VISITING ROSSELLA SHELTER

I picked up Milla and Monica at the airport and together with Olivia we drove to Rossella shelter.

We had food donation from a guy who had left 13 bags at the vet clinic on base (wonderful thank you so much)

This little one we saw a long time ago carried in a box. He doesn't look that well but better.

Thank you so much to all who have donated to AWL Sweden for the money --, and Milla for the generous donation. For the walking belts, retriever leaches, treats, what an Amore day

GIVE YURI A HOME

Yuri was a happy stray living with his own pack on the streets. A lovely lady fed him every day and loved him. Suddenly some men wanted to kill Yuri and started to abuse him. He was rescued by an Italian volunteer and brought to Rossella's shetler.

But now he is so sad and want to escape the whole time back to his "friends"

Please help us with a fosterhome or a forever home, we AWL will help you.

AWL SPAY DAY

After the mission at Rosella's shelter yesterday, Tammy, Todd, Olivia and me continued the mission with four rescue dogs to Lega Pro Clinic for sterilization. (One is out of picture a beautiful red and white Setter that Olivia is holding)

AWL got help from a warm-hearted, lovely Tammy a new volunteer but have worked on the "field" by herself. She took extra care of this little girl who has Ehrlichia, the tick disease. It was good we came in with her now because she can still be treated. But the bad news: the treatment will continue for one month so we would love to have her in a foster family. She is sweeter than sweet, so calm and so kind. She is great with children and other dogs. For now, she needs a quiet loving place to get her strength back.

Tammy and Todd with two beautiful ladies. They were so good in the car and so great with other dogs, and Olivia my daughter.

They are up for adoption--these are NOT AWL dogs but we are helping out to find a loving home and we pay for their treatments to set them off on the right paw.

More to come from the day of Mission

FINALLY ADOPTED FROM ROSSELLAS SHELTER

Ciuffina.......

Leone.....

Rosco Sanches.....

Sabrina......they all got a new home. At a wonderful farm up North with horses, rabbits, cheep's and chickens. What a wonderful day for these wonderful shelter dogs. And my loving Rosco that I wanted to adopt so badly....I am so happy for him.

AWL are saying...CONGRATULATION.

ANOTHER HELPING DAY AT THE SHELTER

Melissa joined AWL in the dog walk, a very windy day, but it was sunny.

Puppies make us smile and bond together. Everyone loved Star Stripe! He is up for adoption!

Even Olivia wanted to bring him home....she already have 17 dogs....so mom said NO!!!

Leah walked Phillipo who is waiting after two years in this shelter to come home to his new owner Ulla in Stockholm ,Sweden.

Thank you all for giving your time and love to these who ended up locked in against their will.

AWL love you guys.

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PLEASE OPEN YOUR HEART AND DOOR

ROSSELLA MISSION LAST SATURDAY

Every second Saturday; At Rosella's shelter, working and loving up on all these wonderful rescue dogs. AWL do not like shelters, but what can you do? Ignore it because your opinion is something else?
We don't. Life is not Black and White!

We are doing everything to find a solution, but of course we need your help.

Our trooper walker Eric with his friend Bull

The AWL Saturday Team, washing and washing and loving and laughing. This team are so big and loving, doing this for free (now I can hear them screaming, "we get love back from the dogs")

AWL AMORE TEAM THANK YOU

Ben, our new volunteer took this beautiful German Shepard mix for a walk. New smells, new hopes!

Pictures (c) 2009 Ben Staley

A RESCUE DOG THAT NEEDS TO BE RESCUED

ROSSELLA SHELTER CLEANING MISSION

AWL went today out to Rossella Shelter; clean dogs, clean cages and kiss and hug them.
The puppy group got a lot of Amore from our great volunteers, Olivia and Jackie. Thanks Jackie for bringing towels and treats. As always, your heart is big.

Our Lupetta that had two of her back legs broken--been in the shelter for 3 years --is making progress. Thanks to my fantastic warm hearted volunteer Lindy. Lindy is re-habing Lupetta with; taking her out asap, gives her water and great treats, gives her a bath and massage, and working with her back legs. Today, Lupetta was outside for her first time in 3 years! (I am on the inside Shelter taking the picture)

Here I am holding Lupetta. Your donations are helping AWL rescue dogs, thank you everyone.

From Sweden, in my baggage back to Italy, I had great donations package from Malaro Farskfoder

Bags of dried goodies (pig ears, lamb tummy, pigtails, tasty crackers salmon etc) Great shampoo that are helping and soothing skin problems. Thank you Tina, you made so many dogs happy. They got something tasty and wonderful to nibble on, making time go faster in their cages. We were so touched to watch them.

This was another Amore Bitter Sweet Day

Thank you every one, you were as always a good great hard working Animal Friend!

Keegan, Kristin, Lindy, Charity, Eric, Ethan, Rebeca, Ben, Jackie, Olivia, Todd, Blanca with friend, Rossella and her two Italian volunteers, and Mia.

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