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THE TALES OF BLUE ...

Hi everyone, Blue here, I’m the tall jumping on the furniture and scratching
handsome one on the left, the little fella on both of them. Despite this they decided to
the right looking cute is Merlin. I’m now take me on, and I became a BTRF dog.
15 years young and thought it was about
time to tell you about my life as a BTRF dog When I arrived, I was in very good health
and the dogs that have shared it with me. but my behaviour needed so much work it
was one step forward and two steps back.

I was introduced to Bandit a collie x
lurcher, he was the resident dog and a very
calm laid-back character. He had lived with
a Bedlington before, so he knew the breed
and with his help and the resources BTRF
provided I began to calm down.

Bandit was also a rescue and a smart
cookie, he showed me this was the place
to be and we became inseparable. Life was
There is so much to write that Aunty Julia good and we spent many years together. I
has suggested we run it over the next few would drag Bandit to the Bedlington meets
issues so check back regularly to get my and he became an honorary Bedlington!
full life story! How exciting is that – I have
my own ‘column’!!
The first photo is of
Ok so, I’ve been a BTRF dog for most of my him and the second
adult life, but first let’s go back to the is both of us, I look
beginning. very dark because
we had been
I was taken on by a family as a little ball of swimming, which is
fluff, but I soon grew into a rather large something else he
Bedlington, unfortunately I didn’t receive taught me. When I
the training I needed and became a bit of a first arrived I didn’t
problem. Added to that the family started want to go near
to keep rabbits so it was a perfect storm - it water but now I love
did not end well. it.

The family decided they couldn’t cope and Bandit was much
approached a rehoming centre, but older than me and
because of my history with rabbits they felt time began to take
I could never be rehomed and maybe its toll on him, he
euthanasia was the only option. The family eventually passed
did not want to go down that road and away at the age of
contacted BTRF, and a week later my seventeen. I was
prospective foster carers came to visit me. devastated with my
best mate gone I
It did not go well I was an absolute became depressed.
hooligan charging around the house,

info@bedlingtonrescue.co.uk www.bedlingtonrescue.co.uk