Little terrier helps great mate win her fight for life
Sean with Cindy and little Eddy
A GREAT Dane has fought back from the brink of death thanks to a Jack Russell Terrier who never left her side.
Two-year-old Cindy was starving and weighed just 35lb when she arrived at an animal sanctuary with wounds that exposed her bones.
But 18 months later, she lives happily on a farm with new best pal Eddy, after being adopted by company director Sean Burke, 52. The married dad-of-one said: “I didn’t know how she was still alive, the state she was in.”
Sanctuary chief Kim Cooling said: “At the shelter, we kept her at the back of the clinic so that we could keep an eye on her and Eddy. They became very close friends.
“He had come to the shelter with his hind legs paralysed after being hit by a car and we were teaching him to walk again. They formed a very close bond. Now, they are just like boyfriend and girlfriend.”
Sean, from Malpas, Cheshire, spotted Cindy when he was installing a water treatment plant
SORRY SIGHT in Sri Lanka and vowed to bring her back to the UK. But he could not separate her from Eddy and arranged for both to be flown over. Cindy and Eddy are now settling into life in the UK with his other dogs, 10-year-old sheepdog-dalmatian mix, Fella, and four-year-old lurcher, Prince.
Sean said: “I adopted them both because it would have been heartbreaking to split them up. “They were fabulous from the moment they arrived.” Cindy was being cared for at Animal SOS, founded by Kim, when Sean first saw her.
He said: “Cindy was barely conscious a lot of the time, but she was so gentle and I thought she deserved a new life. She’s a lovely, comforting, gentle giant.”