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Kos: A Heart for Strays
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in animals
The little fur ball is hardly two months old. Like every puppy she is curious and loves hugs. Her favorite playground is the garden. With all the bushes and the trees. She walks in a clumsy puppy manner and rolls over when she tries to run. Every once in a while she grabs a fallen leaf and starts playing with it.
And when you tell her “Ela” – Greek for ‘come!’ , there she comes jumping on her paws, tottering and takes a comfort landing on your feet.
Her name is Gypsy. A name given to her by the hotel personnel.
Gypsy was damped in the dogs kennel just outside the Robinson Club hotel Daidalos on the island of Kos. Three days ago. Who did it? Nobody knows. The hotel personnel in charge of the dogs found her the next morning. The black … something was trying to survive the night away from her mom in a surrounding unknown her. Together with Alekos, Daida and Tom. The three dogs, ex strays, that have currently found shelter in the kennel.
A kennel set some years ago by the animal loving people working at the hotel in order to give a chance to all these stray dogs wandering outside the hotel or at the beach trying desperate survive.
Dogs, abandoned and damped. Young and old. Small and big. For certain,, hungry. And often emaciated.
Tom, 5 months
“We just couldn’t see without doing anything” says Grigoris Panoulas, Front Office Manager. “Again and again a dog would come over and seek for food … and a home.” As the hotel could not provide a home, after some thoughts and quick decisions the kennel was established. With fence and a couple of dogs houses. With space and food.
Every dog that chooses …Daidalos as bridge between a stray life and a forever home, gets vaccination, deworming, a microchip and a passport. And he or she awaits for the adoption parents from Germany. Then the majority of the hotel guests are Germans. There is always a couple or a family to fall in love with the Kos dogs. Thirty dogs have founbd loving homes since the kennel was established.
“Last year, we hit a record by finding homes for 9 dogs, this summer we might go over this number,” tells me Grigoris as he carries around Gypsy. Daida, a five-month old shy puppy, was the seventh dog that left Greece this summer. Daida left Daidalos on Tuesdya with her new family. For Frankfurt, Germany.
Daida
Grigoris is waiting for news and a picture of Daida in her new home.
Alekos Feeling Groovy
“Every time a dog is leaving with a family, I feel I’ve done some important. Not for me, but for those unlucky strays” says Grigoris in his modest way. And he is concerned that beautiful Alekos might not be so lucky. Due to his age. However Alekos is just 1,5 years old….
Alekos
PS More pictures will be uploaded over the weekend, due to technical reasons 
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On a side note, i’ve been hearing a lot from Greek friends about Chuck Norris. Although I actually really like Chuck Norris, former US Military guy, all around nice guy, but can’t figure out the fascination from Greeks with him, and how did this start? Since Chuck Norris is actually in his 70s now.
Any ideas how this became mania in Greece? Maybe Chuck will have to visit his fans again.
[...] the black fluffy bear damped at the dogs’ kennel of Daidalos Hotel in Kos? Yes, the cute puppy given the name “Gypsy” by the hotel personnel? She found a home! [...]