Monday (August 12) marked the sad milestone for Sarah - who came into RSPCA care when she was just a youngster - as part of a large welfare case. Sweet Sarah, a three-year-old lurcher, has been at RSPCA Block Fen Animal Centre in Cambridgeshire, since November 2021 and before that was at another centre from March 2021. As a result of court proceedings she only became available for rehoming in December 2022.
Other dogs in the case were rehomed - but sadly Sarah still remains. She has twice come so close to finding a family of her own - but they fell through at the last minute through no fault of her own. Staff were so excited for her they even held out a huge banner with the word “reserved” on it because they thought she had finally got her forever home recently.
RSPCA Supervisor at the centre, Tiffany Saunders, said: “We were all just gutted when Sarah’s latest new home fell through. “She was so very close - we understand completely why they had to change their minds - but it just left us all feeling so disheartened because we really thought this time she had got her own happy ever after. “If any dog deserves a family of their own its Sarah - before she came to us her life had been awful she was shut in a kennel all the time - didn’t know how to walk on a lead and had to be carried out of the venue she was rescued from.
“She’s since come on leaps and bounds and she loves nothing more now than the freedom of having a zoomie in our exercise paddock. “She’s.