The TG Bus arrived safe and sound this morning. Updates as I receive them!!

Linda seems to know when Dave goes down with the TG Bus to Surrey. He hadn’t been gone an hour when she called about another dog in need. "Boots" had nowhere to go she said, no one to help her and she was due to "pop" any day. She was so thin her backbone was showing. Could I help her?

I need a brain transplant. Or a harder heart.  I have 19 puppies here under 6 weeks of age. Mind you they have integrated into one happy group. They eat together, sleep together, play together.  Bonnie Lassie even nurses them.. - tho not very often - usually when she wants their special food!!

They look happy, well adjusted and quite social. They follow me so that I have to shuffle trying not to step on any little feet. I feel like a pied piper. They make me laugh at their antics, smile when they sleep in a stack. And they are so much work keeping everything clean. So why would anyone even consider another female due to whelp anyday?

Because I can hear the sorrow and defeat in her voice - the desperation to find help for another lost soul. Because I can remember Serene’s sad face. Because there is no where else for her to go. So I say - Bring her in and I will find her a safe warm bed. And I do. Another corner is prepared with a wire crate, bumper pads and an x-pen is ready for her confinement. Linda arrives at 9 pm - the days are so much longer now - it doesn’t get dark until 10. 30 now.  Linda looks so tired - she has  worked a full day and now has travelled 2.5 hours to bring me Boots. She still has the long trip back.  Boots is brought out. And yes she is so very skinny - her backbone is showing. Her belly is watermelon shaped - she hasn’t much time to build up her strenght before the pups are born. She has the softest, gentlest eyes - a sad soul. This isn’t her first litter - her last pups are barely 6 months old. I sigh, my heart bleeds for the suffering this gentle animal has gone through. I promise this will be her last litter - and she will find a yuppie puppie home where she will be spoiled and cherished for the rest of her life - as all my charges will . That’s a guarantee.

Boots has found a very soft place - my bed!!!

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