‘The pups kept on coming! ’ The day my gorgeous collie-cross Woody, 15, died was a sad one. The perfect pooch, we’d grown up together.
As a dog lover, I needed to fill the hole.
Dead-set on setters, I found eight-week old Poppy on Gumtree, and me and my hubby Peter, 50, fell in love.
Back home, she filled the gap Woody had left, and we decided we’d breed with her.
By January last year, she was pregnant from her perfect pup partner, Rowan.
And, a month on, we took her to the vet’s.
‘There are 10 very healthy puppies in there!’ he said.
‘Wow!’ I gasped.
The kids, Abi, 18, Ben, 16, and Jack, seven, were over the moon with excitement.
Finally, in March, Poppy went into labour.
We…