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Location: Ireland
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Grandfather may have a new dog
As some of you know my grandfather lost his last dog Millie a few months ago to kidney failure, he only had her a few months, he rehomed her at the start of the new year.
He was very upset and stopped eating so we decided to get him a new companion.
My dads friend offered her dog, a German Shepherd bitch, to my grandfather before he got Millie, but they changed their mind at the last minute. They were going on holiday last week and my dad mentioned my grandfather was looking for another dog, so she basically told him to come and get her dog, if my grandfather got on with her for the week they were away he could keep her.
It's been 2 weeks now and according to my parents they are getting on well (I haven't been to meet her at my grandfathers yet but I have met her before).
She is called Bella, she is about 8 or 9, a German Shepherd, and apparently takes her ball to my grandfather on his chair so he can throw it and then she take sit back to him, she licks people now (I don't think she was allowed to lick before) and rolls onto her back for a belly rub which I don't think she has ever done. She is also shedding like mad as she was kept outside for the majority of the time and has made herself comfy on the sofa and my aunts bed.
Apparently he used to have a German Shepherd bitch when he was a boy and he adored her but his father sold her, and Bella reminds him or her, so he is happy