“I first heard about Monty and Tinks when their English owners emailed me to ask if we could help them find new homes as they were returning to England.  My heart dropped to my boots as I have seen so many dogs left in France with Brits going home, only this case was worse as they were planning to go back within a couple of days, and if the dogs could not be rehomed they would be taken to the local SPA.  I dropped everything and drove to meet them the next day, packing cases, noisy children and bewildered animals met my arrival. They were catching the train that very evening!  Well you can either turn around and drive away or open the back of the car and let the dogs get in, and of course, there was not question that I would take them.  Neither dog carried identification or had been sterilised and only the male had been vaccinated, but they were both so loving and friendly I knew we could re-home them. 

Thankfully as you will read, Janet and Dave Kryza saw our poster in The Gallery, Civray and fell in love with Monty, little Tinkerbelle (after a certain fairy in Peter Pan) has wormed her way into our affections and refuses to leave, she has her feet well and truly under the table and give us so much joy and happiness, it’s like Christmas every day.”

Here is Monty’s story…  

 We first came into contact with the Hope Association through the proprietors of La Grande Gallerie in Civray when we saw the Hope board showing a picture of a chocolate brown Pointer-cross bitch who reminded us so much of Daisy our dog who died suddenly six months ago, but when we rang we were told that a home had been found for her, but they had just taken in a three year old male, Golden Retriever/Yellow Labrador cross called Monty, and we went along to see him.