SHE LOVES WATCHING PUPS ON THE TELLY
When she was being cared for at a Blue Cross rescue centre, having been given up by a family too busy to properly care for her, Millie the West highland terrier’s TV addiction stunned staff.
‘And she hasn’t changed,’ laughs her new owner Debbie hammond, from Ipswich. ‘She’s sitting on the chair in front of the telly watching it at this very moment!
‘She loves anything with dogs in and knows exactly what adverts they appear in.
‘She can be in the deepest sleep but if she hears one of those ads, she wakes right up and starts barking at the telly.’
Debbie, her husband Tony and their children Dale, 22, and 14-year-old Abbie, had been searching for a rescue dog for months when they saw Millie.
‘We were hooked on her the moment we saw her,’ says Debbie, 49. ‘She’s fitted in so well we can’t remember a time we didn’t have her.
‘Some friends have said I’m in for heartbreak because I’ve chosen an older dog,’ says Debbie, ‘but I don’t agree.
‘Yes, it will be devastating when we lose her but I’ll know her last years will have been full of fun and love.’