It’s hard to say what your feelings really are
when you get a puppy from a kennel, but I can promise it’s definitely intense and you’ve got to live
it to know what I am talking about here.
I guess it’s a combination of love, desire to
rescue and lots of tendress all combined.
Besides, let me tell you there’s a primordial
instinct involved, like a sort of willingness to provide protection, affection,
which is also increased by the fact you’re helping a creature that went through
a lot of suffering.
I really advise everyone to experience this
kind of emotions because it’s simply amazing and words can’t explain it.
A Rescue Dog is a Dog that is rescued from a
possible euthanasia after being found as a stray dog or that has been saved from an abusive home by an
animal rescue organisation or a dog that
is simply no longer wanted or can no longer be cared for by its owner.
Often these dogs come to these facilities with
tragic abuse stories. It’s like if they went through a nazi camp-style
treatment. Basically they are creatures that only need love and security in
order to get back on track.
Unfortunately in Europe even shelters and
kennels have been found involved in cases of animal abuse and I really wish the
EU will take the appropriate measures to prevent this from happening again to
better protect our little friends.
Would you like to know what are the rescue dog
I love the most? The most tragic ones.
This is a major commitment but being myself
still young and with a lot of energy and resources to dedicate to this project
I am willing to dedicate myself to this objective.
Luckly I have enough time and money to dedicate
to the cause and according to my possibilities I decided to channel a major
stake of my profits to save dogs from being abused.
Time and love are fundamental elements to make
a dog feeling loved and accepted. Also I really enjoy sharing these emotions
with my loved ones too.
However helping dogs is an expensive business
because there are many practical issues you have to care about, like food,
drugs, medical procedures, the vet bills, the heating and many other things.
If you want to figure out what I am talking
about you can think to the movie “Mission”. That’s exactly the kind of trigger
that can pull an average folk to wake up at 6 in the morning to help a dog in need. It’s something that comes from
the inside, if you don’t feel that way this is not the right commitment for
you.
Let me tell you I consider myself as extremely
lucky and proud, today more than ever, as the family I come from, they taught
me what the real values are and thanks to their love today I can share it with
our little friends too.
As an Animal Rights Activist, I love all the
living creatures but dogs really broke my heart.
Dogs have emotions that can almost being
defined as equal to ours. In some cases they’re even amplified. Those who have
a dog they certainly know what I am talking about. Dogs have emotions very
similar to ours, that’s why as time goes by they become part of our families.
The psychological profile of a dog is also very
similar to the human’s, I am talking about the main personality archetypes:
there is the loner, like my Pilly, there’s the insecure like Blacky, and then
you have the impudent like Mirty.
Then you have the more social ones, the typical
single-lady, the good girl, the bad girl etc and among all of them you always
find a sort of hierarchy which can be defined as another similarity to our own
world.
When you have a dog, you share emotions and
sometimes you even expect they would talk to you.
To those who object that dogs don’t talk, I
always reply that dogs speak with their eyes.
Having a dog is simply amazing, especially for
the sense of gratitude you receive from him/her. More especially if they come
from lager-shelters. When they come from that sort of hell, they don’t know
what cuddling is and if you get next to them they get uneasy, and try to walk
away from you as they fear to be kicked like they were used to be. Sometimes
they don’t even know what food tastes like. Like when I adopted Princy that
refused even the most succulent dog food.
Now she’s become greedy for food.
The sense of gratitude I receive from the
dogs I saved comes in different ways.
For example Pilly always check my son who is 2
years old and since he has been sleeping in the cradle...she sleeps with him,
she checks the nannies doing their job. When my son cries she comes over and
call me by barking.
Last summer I was in Tuscany, at my holyday
home and my son fell sick while asleep. During the night he had a fever of over
103 degrees (40° Celsius)
There was no way for me or my wife to even
think or realize he was sick, because he was quietly sleeping on his cradle, or apparently so.
Besides the night before he was absolutely ok
and didn’t do anything weird that could have predicted some kind of illness.
The really incredible thing happened when in the
middle of the night, among all the average nighty sounds you may hear, I
started hearing Pilly getting shaky and running around our bed.
It couldn’t be an intruder because the alarm
was absolutely silent and the other dogs were quiet. So while Pilly was playing
nuts I went over to my son’s bedroom and once I touched his forehead I felt it
was really hot.
As soon as we realized what was going on, me
and my wife we got immediately busy to solve the problem and he kept us awake
until 6 when the fever finally went down
Pilly saved our son from unpredictable
consequences Alessandro could have faced if she didn’t alert us.
This is the kind of gratitude you can
experience from a dog who was dying in an abusive kennel and which now lives
within our family love...
These are unique emotions....
I love my family and I love my dogs because
they are part of my family.
I will dedicate my whole life to rescue as many
dogs as possible and I will do my best to awaken the public opinion on this
important issue.
If you have any idea about dog-rescuing or you
would to participate as a volunteer to my upcoming rescue events you can
contact me at luigiemanuelefoscale@gmail.com
