After visiting the blogs of other rescue dogs and thoroughly enjoying them I decided that I would give it a go myself, so first of all let me tell you a little of myself and my husband.

I'm Linda and hubby is Dave , we live in the north east of England and have two grown up daughters and a gorgeous grandaughter.

We have always been mad on animals especially dogs and when our little yorkshire terrier passed away last october aged 14 we decided that instead of having another dog of our own we would try to help those who might need some help.

So , in December 2007 we approached Pawz for thought a local rescue and asked if it would be possible to look after a dog just for over the christmas period, even a dog deserves a nice warm fireside at christmas right?

A nice lady from Pawz (Lynne) came to visit us and explained everything and checked that our home was suitable, and then we were told we could go to the kennels and choose a dog to bring home temporarily, we were thrilled and next day went to collect a cute little furbaby ( yeah right) what we did bring home was Bobby .. ( see link for his blog) he was so happy to see us and wagged his tail in excitement. he sat in the back of the car with my daughter who very bravely put up with the extreme odour that was coming from him and all went well untill 10 minutes into the journey home, when he decided to let us know that he wasnt going to be putting up with any funny business and grumbled and snapped for the rest of the journey !!

Once home however , and after a nice warm shower and a bowl of food he showed us how sorry he was for his bad behaviour and sidled up for a cuddle.

Bobby is such a cutie although he was a bit grumpy, we grew very fond of him. about a week later an offer of a new home came up so Bobby went off to be introduced to a member of another fosterers family. unfortunately it didnt work out so John and Brenda kept him with them untill a new home could be found, Bobby is very happy there so everything worked out for the best in the end, although we were dogless for christmas after all .

I was due to go away for a month in January, and just after christmas i got a phone call to ask if we could take in a stray dog that had been found wandering in a distressed state in a housing estate, of course we said yes hopefully the poor dogs owners would report it missing and they could be reunited. half an hour later In walked Katy and barely greeted us she was so tired. She lay down and except for eating and going into the garden for the loo, she slept solidly for two days .

She soon made herself at home but as I was going away and Dave works long hours she had to go into the kennels, we were heartbroken and I worried about her and couldnt wait to get home and bring her out of the kennels .Although the dogs are very well looked after there

In February home she came and it was as if she had never been away, she settled in right away and was a joy Her favourite thing was to run around the garden head down and eating grass, she never suffered any ill effects from this so we think she just liked the taste, . after about 3 weeks a lovely couple came to see her with their daughter and they fell in love with Katy ( its very easy to do) so off she went to her new home a week later and she is very happy there, and is loved and pampered as she deserves to be .