Wendy Boast 🌼🌝🍂🐾💙⚽️📚🇪🇸🐶🌳🥘

Well… this is awkward! 😂 We were told Ethel was an older girl, around 10 years old. She had a few lumps and bumps, and she did look a little worn out, so we believed it But it turns out Ethel may simply have had a pretty rough life. She was spayed, and the vet told us that her uterus looked like that of a young dog — possibly around three years old! 🥹 So… surprise! Ethel is actually a beautiful young Podenco, around three years old ❤️ Which means she’s definitely not going into retirement just yet! She has her whole life ahead of her, and now we’re looking for the wonderful home she deserves 🙏🏻❤️ She’s loving, friendly, very sociable and great with other dogs. Basically, Ethel is ready to leave her difficult past behind and start enjoying the life she should have had all along 🐾💕 And this is also why we sometimes find it a little crazy when people focus so much on a dog’s estimated age. We’ve had people choose one dog over another because one was supposedly four and the other five — as though that one year makes such a huge difference. The reality is that so many rescue dogs don’t have an exact birth date. Their ages are often estimates, and even vets can have completely different opinions. As Ethel has just proved, sometimes those estimates can be very wrong! 😂 So please don’t take the number too, too seriously. Look at the dog in front of you — their personality, their energy, their health and, most importantly, the wonderful companion they could become. Because Ethel might have been labelled a 10-year-old yesterday… but today she’s got a whole lot of living to do! ❤️🐾