8th January

Our Dog of the Day is Peppa.

Peppa came in to rescue as her young owners found they were unable to take her to their new property, this is becoming more and more of a problem.
She was just a year old and very sweet, she sat beautifully for her photo to be taken.
As we had no space for her she went into kennels. it was during her time there they noticed she was deaf.
When I contacted the previous owners they said they had thought she was but the vet had told them that Staffords were a stubborn breed! They had gone home and carried on as normal thinking it was them!
They had done a really good job of training her, though they did mention her recall left a lot to be desired, hardly surprising!
She came to us once there was space and I looked forward to training her, planning to learn dog sign language and everything. There was, however, no need as she responded really well to everything even recall where she seemed to sense you were calling her back!

Then Annette contacted us. She and her family had previously had two dogs from John Laker, chairman of Welfare and S.E. Rescue. The last dog Annette had owned had become deaf with age so she was well equipped to cope with Peppa. Or as John put it,'She was used to chucking her arms around an all that!'

Peppa, now Lucy is doing very well with her new family.