Well, we were hardly expecting this. Out last Sunday, walking Des together by the river to avoid the Folk Festival campsite, we bumped into our favourite neighbourhood Collie fostering friends. They only had half their current compliment of 11 (!) dogs, but amongst them was this little charmer, Johnny Badger. He’s a rescue pup who’s mostly Collie plus some other miscellaneous breeds thrown in, and a right character. He comes from a rescue in Ireland via Wiccaweys in Northamptonshire, and he’s had a tough time in his 16 or so weeks of life: he’s been nursed through Parvovirus. We were meant to pick him up yesterday, but had to contain ourselves because Des managed to pick up some infection or other (well, drinking from the Cam and eating cow-crap will do that to anyone) and so we’ve been advised against taking Badger in until Des has finished the antibiotics.

Are we mad to take on a pup that might turn out to be a hooligan? Yep. Can we wait? No.

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