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Angus

How did you hear about Angus?
Somebody I knew shared the BDRUK post about Angus. I read the post and couldn’t help but look him up on BDRUK website. His write up made me laugh and I instantly thought he would be great here with us as he was looking for a mate to play with and loves cats.
Being the cat person in the house it was a shock for my partner when I sent Angus’s profile to him – I’ve been known to say two dogs is more than enough and the cats wouldn’t like anymore!! But after he’d laughed, I submitted our interest online and his foster mum contacted me really quickly. After a chat with his foster mum we arranged to meet him over the weekend as he was living close by.



Initial impression of Angus?
The first meeting was so lovely we spent some time with him and chatted all about him, we even had a little walk with one of our dogs with him. I think I fell in love with him immediately and we arranged a home visit for the next day. The next day he arrived with his foster mum and after all the checks and paperwork were done, while he played in the garden with our other dogs, he stayed.



How did he settle in the first week?
We knew Angus’s story, he had been born in London without eyes and no hearing before being fostered here in Cornwall. He had been rehomed once, but it hadn’t worked so we knew we had to be 100% committed to him to ensure he was in his forever home.
I can’t remember life without Angus he is so full of life and so loving. His first evening here was brilliant and I was amazed at how quickly he learned his way around. I put him in his crate the first evening and he just snuggled down on his bed and blankets and went straight off to sleep.
The next morning he was so excited and ready to explore. I tried to keep him to the downstairs for the first couple of days but he wasn’t having any of that, his courage and trust blows my mind as he flew around the house.
Luckily like our other two dogs he loves his food – in fact he loves his food and any other food his supercharged nose smells, regardless of whether it is his or not! Despite the first two days of our other two dogs playing with him, they then realised he was staying so weren’t too sure that they wanted to share. But with careful handling and lots of love for them all, our terrier suddenly realised that he had a play mate. They are now best buddies and you can see the look on other dog’s face looking at them like they are the mad boys who should be ignored! The cats couldn’t quite work him out and jumped on him when he was on my lap not realising he was there because he wasn’t paying them any attention.



How Angus doing now?
It really is like Angus has always been here, he is like my little shadow when I am home, and I love our little adventures out and about. He is so funny, has such a big personality and just loves to be cuddled – what more could you ask for? He loves to be sociable and everywhere we go (and he goes everywhere with me that he can) people ask if they can talk to him, he is quite a celebrity!
We realised very quickly that nothing in the kitchen is safe. This week I found my work phone in the garden in the rain – we find lots of interesting things in the garden these days as Angus the house elf takes them out there to play with, unless of course they are edible and then they are used as snacks for him and his best friend Boris.
He has quite a thing for carrots, so they now have a new storage location in our house – up high out of his reach and mine. Everything in the kitchen has to be out of the telescopic Angus neck range if you don’t want it devoured or relocated to the garden. But we wouldn’t have him any other way! A few very strange items have also made it to the garden from other rooms and I am thinking he should be renamed Dobby the house elf! He very much adored!

Angus
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