RSPCA Rescue - Abi Comes home!

Hello again - yesterday I promised to tell you about how Abi came to live with us in 2007 - so here we go ....

January 2007 was not a good month - Hubby Dave had suffered a couple of heart attacks and a slight stroke and we didn't know - he had suffered 'silent' heart attacks - no pain just shortness of breath!  Following two weeks in hospital Dave came home to recuperate, and so a couple of months passed, and by April  he felt better and needed a new way to exercise (banned from the gym), a new woofer appeared to be the answer.  It had been 10 years plus since Sooty our Heinz 57 had passed away, so now was the time.

The RSPCA rescue centre, The Ark is just a few miles from home so we toddled off to have a look.  Sooty had been a 4 month old pup when we got her - not this time though - a young dog would be better if we could find one, but we went with an open mind.  We didn't have to wait very long - one of the kennels had 'sight' hounds - we had never heard of the term but soon found out!

Greyhounds, Whippets, Lurchers of all denominations and Salukis (or Gazelle Hounds).  In other words, very fast hunting dogs, long dogs, whatever you wish to call them.  All of their photos were pinned by the door for us to look at - that's when we saw her - a lovely black almond eyed beauty! Along the corridor we strolled carefully looking at all of the woofers, the very noisy woofers until we got to one kennel, a shared kennel - Brian the greyhound was bounding around being very vociferous, and in the corner was a hard plastic bed, and laid in the bed was a very quiet, sad little black dog who looked so unhappy!  Brian was still bounding and causing havoc, as this skinny little creature stood up and came to the gate - sniffed our hands, looked at us and gave a tentative tail wag, turned around and went back to the hard unforgiving dog bed.  We looked at each other and smiled, in a very quiet, fleeting moment Abi had chosen who she wanted to go home with ! ......
 ...... so what happened next? .... I'll tell you tomorrow ...

Love and hugs xxx

P.S. Take a good look at the doggies on our Anniversary Card - they're just like Abi  .....