Pet of the Week – Storyhounds – Millie and Pearl with their companion author Annabelle Franklin

Thank you so much, Sally, for making us your Pets of the Week!

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Today we meet Millie and Pearl who live with Annabelle Franklin… The Storyhounds

Millie is a beautiful brindle Lurcher I adopted as a puppy from Greyhound Rescue Wales in 2004. She was one of a litter of five living in the back of a transit van with their Greyhound mother. The owner didn’t want them because they weren’t pure Greyhounds and wouldn’t make him any money.

I know all owners think their dogs are special, but there really is something magical about Millie. As a friend put it, when you look into her eyes you see a soul looking back at you. Like many sighthounds she spends a lot of time sleeping, and I often imagine her visiting the astral plane, hunting down ideas for my children’s fairy tales and supernatural stories. She has a sense of humour too, which is helpful as I like to inject humour into my…

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