Adopting the puppy

It occurs to me I should write this down before it is lost to the vagaries of my memory. 

Theo was left in a box with fifty euros and his two siblings outside a tiny rescue project, Little Friends, run by a couple of people on the Greek island of Lefkada.   He was about one week old, and probably bred for hunting.  Possibly the owner took the pup(s) he wanted from the litter and gave away the rest.  

Little Friends took them in and fostered them with another litter of pups of a similar age that they had also taken in, who had arrived with their mum.  So although they lost their mother at 1 week, they were fed and raised by dogs, rather than handfed, which should help them develop much better social skills.  Certainly Theo's doggy skills seem to be excellent: he is a confident, relaxed and friendly pup. 

There is no way to know what his parents were like, but the rescue feel that the pups looks like Greek Harehounds, a type of dog that is apparently locally very common as a hunting dog in Greece, but rarely seen elsewhere.  I'd never heard of them until recently! 

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