Pick Me Up! Special

PAMPERED D POOCH!

After brushing my teeth, I was about to get into bed when my phone started ringing – it was the call that I had been nervously waiting for.

‘She’s ready for you to collect her,’ my niece, Charlotte, said down the phone

‘Yes!’ I squealed with delight, nearly giving my husband Andrew, 68, a heart attack.

In August 2011, I found out that I was about to get my dream pup – a white Maltipoo.

A woman I knew was no longer able to care for her and I snapped up the chance to take

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