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    Bags of puppy love

    Apr 07, 2022 3 minutes

    Tammy Mertens, 44

    Seeing my little girl Emma, then 7, laying on the sofa clutching her cuddly toy dog, I started to worry.

    Usually running around with her two big brothers, 12 and 10, she’d been under the weather, weak and tired.

    Suffering from what I thought was the flu.

    ‘She’ll be OK in a few days,’ I said to my husband Geoff, then 41.

    And she soon seemed to perk up, playing with her brothers again.

    Chatting non-stop about her beloved dogs!

    Geoff and one of my sons were

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