Hi
I wasn't sure where to post this, but here goes. Last week, we started being followed home by a gorgeous young street dog, which seemed to be hanging around the Friar Tuck Restaurant in Ovacik.
She's the usual small dog type with a curly tail, which wags constantly. We think she's still quite young as she mouths a little (although she doesn't bite).
Well, we gave her some treats the first couple of days and let her in the garden to play with our 4 year old Lhasa Apso bitch, which we brought with us from Scotland (Coco).
We then managed to get her into the car to take on a walk down to the microlight airfield, where we normally meet up with some other folks with dogs. Some of them seemed to know of her and we established she is a street dog (we weren't sure if she was a street dog at first because although she didn't have a collar on, her coat was very nice and looked pretty clean, and she was obviously being fed).
We took her back up to the area where she found us originally and we drove home. The next morning, she was sitting outside our gate, waiting patiently for us.
Being big soft lumps, we decided that we would take her in on a trial basis, to see if she got on okay with Coco. We managed to get a collar on her, have wormed her and given her a dose of frontline (as well as a bath). We decided we needed to call her something while she was with us so we called her Poppy.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like things are going to work out with Poppy. Coco is absolutely terrified of her and has been in a continual state of stress ever since we brought Poppy in. Which is a total shame because Poppy is a lovely natured wee thing and just wants to play.
So, the upshot of it is that Poppy needs a new home. We thought it would be kinder to take her in, even if it was only a temporary thing, rather than just leave such a loving wee beastie out in the rain etc.
She's so well behaved and she walks on a lead and doesn't pee inside.
Please, if anyone would like a lovely wee companion, can you contact us through this or email me at lisa.borland@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks very much!
Lisa Borland and Irene Polland
p.s. here's a wee pic of her.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1792820063189&set=a.1792820023188.2105538.1320292555