Nika

Where to start with this poor baby! Called at 10.30 at night a couple of weeks before Christmas, to be asked for help with a young Mali bitch who was tied to a tree in a back garden and had been for 3 days. A call for help had been put out on a local group as supposedly she had been abandoned there and the dog warden, RSPCA etc. weren’t interested. According to the neighbours the house had got her at the weekend, she supposedly had not got on with the resident dog and promptly been tied up in the garden, with a Mikki muzzle on! Nika, as she has been named was born April 2025 we believe, as she was not chipped. We were greeted with an underweight, terrified little girl who was defending the little space she had between the tree and the fence panel. After some tricky handling of her, we managed to get her in the back of the car where she quickly settled. After a night’s sleep, Nika quickly accepted me as her person and became a cuddly, mouthing pup. Understandably, Nika is mistrusting of...