We were in the second week of December 2025, it had just started to get a little colder here in this part of Spain, by that I meant here in Palma De Gandia a small working village just outside the city of Gandia which is in the Safor region of Valencia halfway between Valencia city and Benidorm. My wife and I came to Spain at Christmas 2018 we brought with us Our Wonderful 7 Year old Black and White lurcher call Harry.
He was a cross between a border collie and a greyhound we had Harry from when he was a few weeks old. He was my constant companion and dare I say it, my friend. Not long after we arrived We noticed that Harry had become depressed and very quiet he was lonely, so we decided to get him a companion We adopted a young Galgo girl called Willow And it changed Harry's life.
Back to
this fateful December morning, Harry had not been too well recently he was
approaching his 15th birthday, he jumped up on the bed and I thought he'd
fallen down but he hadn't, he had collapsed. He couldn't move his back end or
stand up he was terrified of what was happening to him. We took him to the vets
where unfortunately we had to make that one decision that all pet owners are
terrified of. We came home from the vets without Harry. I was absolutely
heartbroken as was Willow, My wife pointed out to me that Willow had started
curling up at one end of the settee making herself very small and looking very
very despondent. We agreed that if Willow didn't perk up after Christmas we
would look for a companion for her as she is now the same age as Harry was when
we first arrived here in Spain. Just after a week later I was in front of my
computer was browsing through Facebook when a notification came up with a
picture of a Podenco girl and a message stating that a foster home was urgently
required for her by the end of the week. The strange thing was, at the time I
wasn't even subscribed to that particular rescue page, which was the Facebook page of " Friends of APROP" but I do believe in fate
and sometimes things are just meant to be. I showed Lorni my wife the page I
wrote down the telephone number and told her to give them a ring. a Day Later
Lorni went to see Lima in her then current foster home, She phoned me and said
we've got to help this dog. The following Saturday the 20th of December Lima
was brought to us in the back of a car, and thus started a new chapter not only
in Lima's life but ours also.
Lima was
terrified of everything, she couldn't even look at us directly without shaking,
She had to be carried into the house. our hearts melted We had to help this
dog, Willow has been really really good with Lima, she has been just like a big
sister should and I am very proud of her.
In one year Lima had been in four different homes, one family that had adopted her had returned her to the kennels stating that there had been no improvement in her behavior she had been in two other foster homes and now she was with us. We both knew that Lima was never going to be re-homed again, in a short space of time had already helped both Lorni and I along with Willow to heal from the loss of our Harry, not completely of course but Lima gave us something else to concentrate on..... so it begins!!!
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