17 Jun 2025

Retired Working Dogs

From Afternoons, 1:50 pm on 17 June 2025

Finding forever homes for former farming dogs is getting harder. Local charity 'Retired Working Dogs' has rehomed 18 thousand pups over the past ten years... but they have noticed a large decline in people able to adopt.

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