Darcey

This is Darcey our family dog, she is around 2 years old. She is all black with a white strip on her belly and just below her chin.
Me and my brother have wanted a dog since around primary school, but we were never home enough to look after one, but when my brother started working nights, and I was at college we all agreed it was right.

We got Darcey in November from a rescue centre in Northamptonshire. Wiccaweys they are dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of Border Collies & Working Sheepdogs. We think Darcey was abandoned in Ireland probably because she was an accident, as she is a cross and farmers just don't want them. She is a boarder collie cross but what with we don't know, definitely a smaller dog as she is a little dot.

When we were first thinking of getting a dog we knew we wanted a border collie because we love there temperament, and the look of them, we were also looking for an older male dog which is why we were thinking of Darcey, like Mr Darcey from Pride and Prejudice. But when we saw Darcey (or Cinders as she was) and we all fell in love with her, she had just arrived from Ireland and was still so happy and full of energy, we also walked her around the surrounding fields and she was such a delight. It was a £200 donation which helps them pay for there vets fees and rehousing more dogs.

We have had her now for 8 months and we love her so much, she passed her bronze award in dog club and we will be going on to do silver. She absolutely loves tennis balls and almost always has one in her mouth. 

She has a best friend, Barney, who came with us to Wiccaweys when we picked her and they have play dates whenever we can, we brought her an 80ft lead so they can run freely but we know she can't get lost or run away in all the surrounding fields.

At night she will sleep in either mine or my brother bed, but does on the odd occasion go to her own bed in the study. If anyone is wondering we feed her free flow chicken mince and chicken chappy biscuits once a day at 18:30.

This was here on her first holiday to Barton-on-Sea Beach 

Thank you for reading

And if you have any ideas on what she is crossed with leave me a comment below

Poppies and Cornflowers x