Dogsey

This Saturday is the equivalent of Black Friday when hundreds of puppies will be bought as Christmas presents. However, many of them will then be returned after the festive period.

The Dogs Trust say lots of dogs are returned after Christmas and have launched a campaign to try and make people think twice before giving dogs as presents. Every year the charity sees 17,000 animals come through its 20 centres.

Some of the reasons for returning a dog include:

- "He kept chasing frogs"

- "He looked different after we walked him in the rain"

- "He was too loving and needed too much attention"

- "I'm worried our toddler will copy him and poo in the garden"

- "He's too playful - we haven't sat down since we got him"

- "My dog is old and going to die soon"

- "He was scared of the cat next door "

- "He barks every morning"

- "He wags his tail too much"

- "She's seems hungry all the time and follows me around the house"

- "He kept coughing in the night and woke me up"

- "All the puppy did was sleep. We wanted a dog we could play with"