We would like to introduce you to Sandy!

Our beautiful girl who is THE most affectionate fluff ball you could ever wish to meet!

She loves our dog Heidi and trusts her implicitly and I think she wasn’t sure all dogs weren’t like Heidi.

Sandy survived her attack by an absolute miracle! She was attacked on the 7th of April this year by a neighbours dog. The dog was allowed to get off lead and chased Sandy onto our driveway and into the bushes where she was savagely attacked. This was all caught on our neighbours cctv and ring doorbells as their houses face the side of our house. The owner did battle the dog to get it off my cat but then casually walked away from the scene as if nothing had happened and left my cat fighting for its life alone. They did not inform me of the attack. Luckily (although terribly traumatic to hear and witness) my fifteen year old son noticed the attack from his bedroom window at the rear of the house. I had popped myself and my daughter to the doctors and came home immediately when my son phoned me. We went searching for Sandy but couldn’t find her anywhere. Our other lovely neighbours helped search for her. The owners of the dog still didn’t come out or offer to help look. When I approached their door they said my cat had attacked them. I saw the whole cctv video and my cat was just trying to get back home and was chased by their dog which they had no control of. The dog was known to dislike cats and was a rescue dog and the owner told me it hated cats when she first introduced me to the dog. They should have responsibly researched the breed and known that a lurcher cross greyhound is a prey driven, chasing dog, that hunts and chases small animals. They should have known that they can run at high speed and that a cat can stand no chance of escape or run away fast enough. They never muzzled the dog and did not have a harness on the dog which would have given them more control over the dog when the dog ran off they could have grabbed the harness to get the dog off the cat quicker but they had nothing to grab hold of. I finally found my cat who was dragging her back legs along the floor as she couldn’t use them and could barely walk. Sandy was trying to get home at almost midnight that night after the attack had happened early morning we didn’t think we would see her again. She was rushed to the vets and they warned us that she may not survive the night. She had lost a lot of blood and was very cold and in shock. She had a damaged liver, a collapsed lung, a severed leg tendon and nerve which was just about hanging on, and several six inch deep puncture wounds across her body. By some miracle she got through the night. The vet bills were thousands of pounds and initially the dogs owners were refusing to help pay until I sent them a template letter from the citizens advice bureau saying I would take them to the small claims court. They then went through a liability claim insurance company and after sending all the footage and vet reports they were found liable and had to pay up. I approached the police and asked them to visit the owners of the dog to discuss it being dangerously out of control. The police said there was nothing they could do and that the law only protects service dogs and people. So I discovered then that even if the dog attacked my dog or cat again that dangerous dogs and irresponsible owners could just get away with it. I was shocked. When I did more research I realised things needed to change.