Living in a second floor flat, she had soft pink paws where she rarely went out. She now lives in a bungelow with a garden all to herself and loves her runs on the beach!

He was chosen for us at Dog's Trust nearly 2 years ago. He was very thin, had a chest infection and was in bad condition as he had been a stray (he was only 10 months old). He has literally turned my life around. Before we got him I couldn't leave the house on my own and couldn't walk very far. Now we walk up to 3 hours a day. He has given me the confidence to do so much and I am looking forward to lots of happy years with him. Here he is doing a 'leave' it trick - those are pieces of toast on his feet!

We don't know what had happened to him before I found him, battered, broken and mostly bald in a rabbit hutch, but his xrays showed that his ribs had been broken as had his nose and all of his legs at different times, none had been set properly, he had never seen a vet. It took three weeks of sitting quietly on the floor with him before he allowed me to touch him and months before we had our first shivery hug. I have never felt so honoured as the day he put his little paw on my lap and left it there and I have never felt so special as the day he climbed on to my lap.

Adopted from a RSPCA shelter at 7 months old he came with a complete lack of training and numerous problems, apart from hating the vet he's now a very good boy, honest!

She lay beside her disabled owner when he died until they were discovered then was taken by the guy upstairs into his bedsit until the Landlord discovered her and he was told to put her down or leave. She went to a close friend, then escaped the first night. I knew where she`d be - sitting outside her old home, waiting for Daddy. When we picked her up it was love at first sight so I took her home and she soon knocked me into shape, demanding tea and biscuits at 8.30 each evening. We discovered her tumour the next week and after 2 operations I promised she`d never suffer. She was with me a year before she told me she`d had enough and I still cry at her going.

We rescued this dog in May last year from a dogs home. We were told very little of his past. But after having him home for just a few days we realised that he had some major behavioural problems. Fear was the most prevalent. He was quite underweight and very fearful. He is a Border Collie x and is now such a happy well behaved young man!.

'Careful, she has just peed everywhere' and I was handed this smelly shaking bundle. This stunning little lady had been picked up as a stray in Ireland and taken to a pound that kills in a week if a home cannot be found. She was saved from the pound, placed in kennels, taken to a foster home where she was spayed and vaccinated before the long scary ferry trip in a cage in the back of a van with 20 other dogs. No wonder she had peed. Sure she has issues, fear agressive, reactive and guards food, but she is also loving and very smart. I am sure she will be a fantastic little lady.

This rescue pup was 15 weeks old when we rescued her. She was very very underweight and needed a home desperatly. We travelled 100 miles to get her. The mission was all done in a rush, we heard about her one day and was off the next to pick her up. She is so loving and with the help of my other dog is coming into her own.

She's been with us just over two years and is now half the dog she was...literally.

19kg lighter and two cruciate ligament operations later but what a different dog. There is something so special about her. I cry that she'll never get the opportunity to do the things she would've been so good at her had her previous owners not made her so overweight - working trials/agility/working sheep - I'm positive if she'd been fit enough she could've done it all. But does she complain - no, never.

She's been with us nearly a year and what a year its been.

Looking back now its difficult sometimes to remember just what she was. By no means perfect yet, she has still come so far, from a frightened, shy wee dog with no confidence at all to a cheeky wee girl who makes us laugh and smile on a daily basis. We are blessed that we were the ones to give her a second chance.