In August I unknowingly agreed to pick up two dachshunds to “foster” from Margate the following day while busy working towards a Friday deadline.

As with all pets, you never foster or just view them as it is impossible to give them back, so Georgie and Tilly are staying for good.

Georgie or “Georgie Porgie” or “Porgie” was morbidly obese. She is now a thinsperation, although she still makes a beeline for McDonalds whenever we walk past it and wakes me up religiously at 7am, so I can make her breakfast.

We think she has had at least two litters…I still struggle to believe she brought up pups as she has no moral compass.

Tilly was exceptionally skinny. Despite feeding her the equivalent of me eating 8kg a day she failed to put any weight on. She took a turn for the worse in October and was referred to a very luxurious doggy hospital where they managed to diagnose her with a portosystemic shunt (a blood vessel was by passing her liver since birth).

She has since had an operation. We are hopeful that this has resolved the issue…she has since added 25% to her body weight and is on her way to usurping Porgie.

Luckily for us the Red Foundation, who we adopted Georgie and Tilly through, has covered all of Tilly’s eye wateringly expensive vet bills.

They are one of the few rehoming charities that cover vet bills for pre-existing conditions. They have rehomed over 500 sausages in the last four years, many of whom have been given up by their owners due to their health issues.

It is a very small charity run by volunteers and there has been a spike in lockdown rehoming so any donations would be really appreciated.

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