Not Jock, or even Peppa - this time, it's Bobby!!! (with photo's)

To all of those people out there in the world, do everyone a favour. If you are planning on getting a dog, treat it right. Take the time to understand it's behaviours and why it does something. Learn to "read" the dog. Learn what it likes and doesn't like. Teach is manners. Exercise it, and keep it healthy. Regular worming, a good balanced diet, routine and love. Then, when the time comes that the dog needs a new home (we never set out to buy a dog with the option of rehoming it), at least it shouldn't come with truckloads of baggage, and be a well behaved member of 'Our' society.
Again, we are faced with a dog that has a lot of baggage. Barks constantly, digs everywhere, bites at her feet when she's too excited, petrified of anything that may be used to hit her, and begs constantly to be loved rather than punished. This girl has been through a world of hurt, and doesn't trust humans too easily. The sad thing is, she's not even two years old yet!
My son has taken on training her at the moment. I started the work, but she is fearful of me, and as I have done nothing to hurt her, I am lead to believe that it was a woman who did all the damage.

Bobby is two years old in October. She has suffered through major surgery to have the ball of her right hip removed. We were told that she was found on the side of the road in October of last year in an emaciated state and with a broken hip. The hip ball was removed and she was 'cared for'.

When we got her, she was approximately 8 kilograms underweight. Her coat was dry and sparse, and she had no idea who she was.

We found out that the story we were told may not have been 100% correct.

These photo's were taken about 2 weeks after she arrived. At this stage she was still on 6 small meals a day. A little bit of exercise (her back leg was giving her a lot of trouble) and plenty of attention.