Just a few dogs
Last Saturday evening we headed to Hanover to help our friend collect her rescue dog that was on the transport, coming all the way from Hungary. Project Pusztahunde are an organisation from Hungary that rehome street dogs throughout Europe.
We met the transport at 4am at a petrol station outside of Hanover.
On this particular transport there were 36 dogs, dropped off to new forever homes throughout German. My friend Christiana had chosen Gracie from their website, a sweet small girl that was found living under an abandoned fridge. The organisation had rescued her and she had been living in their shelter. Now she’s safe and snug and will be living her best life in Berlin with loads of doggy friends to look after her.
Monday we had the great pleasure to look after Freddy for the afternoon. Hes such a good boy. We always meet for his pick up in the dog park, it gives all the dogs a chance to run around and greet each other without the leads getting in the way. Also gives them a five minutes of madness, which helps them be much calmer on the lead.
We then took a stroll through the neighbourhood and back to our place for some sofa snugs. Ernie loves Freddy so much and likes to sleep as close as he can.
On Tuesday and Wednesday we had the delight of looking after Suzie & Vida, lovingly called The Chicas. Two beauties rescued by my good friend Kristina on her trip to Costa Rica several years ago. They are the sweetest of girls and really fun to look after. However on this particular day Suzie really didn’t want to go for a walk. (See her mood in the photo) S
o I looked like the crazy dog lady who just kidnapped an unwilling dog. Suzie loves me but today she was really standing her ground, and at the specific moment I’m trying my best to create some momentum in the walk a lady stopped me and asks, “erm you ok? That’s Suzie isnt it?? and where’s her owner?” I was so embarrassed! I obviously had to explain that she is safe and i’m not a dog thief. After a few laughs about her stubbourness, her nickname isn’t Controletta for nothing, and me silently dying inside, we actually all walked together and had a lovely chat.
The nice thing about Berlin is although it’s a city, in each neighbourhood everyone really does know everyone.
We then took a pit stop at Doughnut Time, because I really needed some sugar and an ice coffee. It’s a really jazzy colourful doughnut cafe, with loads of seating inside and out. The dogs were welcomed inside and everyone watching seemed to love four dogs looking at doughnuts.
The doughnuts are vegan, with loads of flavours to choose and the ice oat coffee was great. Suzie was also much happier to have a few treats from my dog bag and some cuddles. See she loves me really.
A great few days filled with cuddles and adventures.
