Since arriving in the UK it has been discovered that Anna has a lump with nodules and requires urgent surgery. We have a very special fundraiser page setup for Anna. To find out more please click HERE.

At SOS Italian Setters we are all about ensuring the happiness of the dogs we rescue and sometimes we are presented with really unusual of challenges, such as with Anna and Axel. Who could have believed that when we introduced them to each other in kennels it was to be love at first sight, and we do mean ‘love’! They immediately bonded and became inseparable; where one went the other was sure to follow! Like many young couples they met by chance and after a whirlwind romance decided that life together was the way forward.

At that moment we made them a promise that we would ensure they would stay together forever.

They recently came to the UK, and like in kennels in Italy we made very special arrangements to ensure they were able to travel together and remain close throughout the journey. They are now in foster care in the UK where it has become absolutely apparent this love affair is no less strong. We are now looking for a visionary family who will accept them into their lives a a couple, and trust us when we say the rewards of sharing this amazing couple will be a wonderful experience.

Sounds like a challenge I hear you say? Well think again! Having had dogs for over 50 years I can assure you the joy, reward and fun of having one is nothing like that which you will have with two! Plus two from my vast experience are must easier, for many reasons, than one. They support each other, play together, sleep together, tend not to suffer separation anxiety in the manner a single dog may and actually are not really any more work and in some cases less because of my previous explanation.

Both Anna and Axel are very young so will be able to spend a long and happy life with you.

Axel was the first to arrive at the shelter. Tests showed he was positive to leishmaniasis which has been treated with Antimania injections and he is now thriving, and although will need a blood test at regular periods to monitor him, he will have a great life. One of my dogs is positive to leishmaniasis and barring (in his case short periods of medication) you would never know – remember this is not an infectious condition. He is negative to Brucella.

His wife Anna is negative to both leishmaniasis and Brucella.

We are looking to rehome them together. We know how difficult this is going to be, but to see these two together you just know it is the correct thing to do. Difficult but not impossible…

Please please share for them. A foster home for both together would be great too! And once in the country we will help them find a home together.

They are very good with other dogs, not tested with cats.

Axel was surrendered to one of our rescuers. The man who gave him up said that he belonged to someone else who didn’t want him anymore because he was too afraid of everything. The usual pathetic story we have heard so many times before that the dog belonged to someone else. Fortunately, Axel is safe now in the care of SOS Italian Setters in a shelter in Naples.

Are you inspired? Are you interested in providing the warmth and safety of a real loving adoptive or foster home for Anna & Axel? If so please download our Adoption/Foster Application Questionnaire (pdf or Word) and return to chiara@sositaliansetters.org.uk

Alternatively if you wish to know more about fostering or adopting through SOS Italian Setters, whether it is this lovely couple or any of our other wonderful rescues please contact Chiara (email above) or Andrew (andrew@sositaliansetters.org.uk).