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As a child i had grown up with dogs, in the whole of my life there have only been 2 weeks of having no dogs in the house. We have had a Springer Spaniel (Tess, a rescue, who lived to 18),  a Cavalier King Charles x (Kelly, a rescue, who lived to 17), a Greyhound (Sophie, currently 8, a rescue) and a Border Collie (Bart, currently 7, not a rescue). I was desperate for my own dog though as these were family pets. Having convinced my parents that i would in fact be leaving home and moving in with my partner in the very near future (1 year later it eventually happened!) they agreed that i could bring a 3rd dog into the house! I had gone up to the RSPCA in Leicester to the pet shop there as i needed a few bits for my Chinchilla, whilst there i decided to have a look at the dogs. A male was out of the question as our Border Collie, whilst submissive in every way possible to our female Greyhound, would not tolerate another male. As i walked through the kennels i could have taken everyone of them home. All the dogs stand looking at you with begging eyes, wagging their tails. Then i came across a small black and white dog, leaping up at the cage door, licking frantically through it, crying, tail going mad - an absolute nutter. Reading her information sheet she was found as a stray, was messy, wasn’t housetrained, had seperation anxiety, hadn’t been tested with other dogs, crazy on the lead and not a good traveller. Everything was wrong about this dog, EVERYTHING! Yet when i put my hand through to stroke her she wrapped her front paws around me to love me and that was it, that was the dog i had to have! Things didn’t improve there though. Having registered my details with the reception i was allowed to meet Zoe. It turned out that Zoe had been found near to a travellers site with no fur left on her body and covered in petrol, her fur was just growing back which is why it looked so scraggy. I called my Dad to come and walk her with me and we took her together. It was pooring with rain and this dog had absolutely no control. On the lead she jumped madly in the air, she wrapped my legs in knots with the lead and when she stopped for breathe she tried to eat the lead. Her hair had parted right down the middle of her back where it had rained on her and she looked so cute, even so i was convinced my Dad was going to turn around and ask what on earth i was thinking of we made our way back to the kennels. I was completely gobsmacked when we walked into the kennels and my Dad asked where we went from here. It turns out Zoe’s magical charm had got him hooked too!! We had to arrange for our 2 dogs to come and meet Zoe and see how they got on, we would also need to have a home check and Zoe would need to be spayed before being released. We bought Bart and Sophie to meet her and she loved them, although Sophie had to tell her a few times when she leaped on her!! the ladies at the RSPCA were happy with this so now Zoe was booked in for her op and we were booked in for our home check. That night i went to B&Q and spent £90 on trellis to make one of the garden fences high enough (as Zoe was an acrobatic Lurcher it needed to be 6ft). The next day a lady came to do the home check. I hadn’t slept the night before, cleaning, tidying and worrying about what it would involve. When she turned up she took a look at the garden and the crate, saw our other 2 dogs and was quite happy, she signed the release form and that was that. I picked my partner up from Uni at 3pm and we went straight to the RSPCA to pick her up. When they bought her into recpetion she was as mad as before and Lee looked at me as if to say - are you mad?! But when we got in the car, he sat on the back seat with her and she curled up with her head on his knee and didn’t move until we got home. She worked her magic on him and my Mum & Sister too when they got in. She was mad and wrong in so many ways, but that was it, we all loved her!

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