MAISIE is about 2yrs old and was surrendered to the pound, and possible death, by her owner, She was accompanied by her 2 lovely babies. She was, no doubt, got rid of because of the outdated belief that she is "ruined for life" by producing crossbreed puppies.

She is very friendly towards people and dogs alike but lacks general training. The pups are 2 boys who look exactly like black labs except for a bit of white under their chins. They are both as friendly as their mum.

They will all be fostered together for a couple of weeks and, as long as Maisie proves to be as friendly towards the resident cat as she is to everything else, she will then be adopted by her fosterers.

The plan was to foster tham all together for a couple of weeks and to home the babies from there but they were totally weaned and showed little interest in their mum so they stayed in a different foster home. The plan with Maisie was that, as long as she proved to be as friendly towards the resident cat as she was to everything else, she would then be adopted by her fosterers. This did, fortunately, prove to be the case.

MAISIE'S BABY BOYS

MINSTREL and MERLIN

UPDATE ON CONNIE

Connie has settled in really well and we absolutely love her. For the first couple of days she would rush up to the car and we thought that she wanted to go to her puppies, but this has passed. Also, we had to feed her from our hands to begin with, but now, most of the time,she doesn't need any encouragement to eat.

She pulls a bit on the lead, so we will have to work at that and she is becoming very playful - Millie gets quite cross with her and tells her off which has absolutely no effect at all! She is teaching Millie how to play which is lovely. We took her for a walk across some fields today and although we didn't let her off the lead, she had a wonderful time running around with Millie.

She has shown an interest in the cat (and its food which is obviously much more interesting and very tasty!) but when I called her off she stopped immediately. Connie is incredibly loving, very waggy and absolutely beautiful. All in all, we consider ourselves incredibly lucky to have both Connie and Millie (all in the space of about 6 weeks!). We couldn't have wished for two more wonderful, loving companions.

Connie has helped Millie with her dislike of travelling in cars - they jump into the back together and you wouldn't know they were there. A huge thank you IRR (and especially Pauline) for enabling us to give Millie and Connie their forever home.

FURTHER UPDATE FROM BELINDA

Connie has just become lovelier by the day. She is absolutely gorgeous, wonderful temperament, very quick to learn and beautiful (not that I am biased or anything!). She is very pale in colour though we have noticed a slightly darker band of colour on her back and head. She certainly is not vocal, never barks unless she wants to come in, but Millie makes up for it! Whatever she is doing, Connie never stops wagging her tail.

Her coat has grown back, after having her litter, and is lovely and long and soft. She has the most wonderful temperament and loves going to training and learning new things. She now walks to heel on the lead, waits at doorways and never stops wagging her tail. She and Millie adore each other and curl up together when they sleep. Their playing together around the house can get a bit boisterous though.

Connie is very proud of her sons, especially Drake, and hopes to meet up with both of them at the Reunion. Thank you once again IRR, for our lovely goldie girls.

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