As anyone with a pet knows, they’re not just an animal. They’re part of the family. And that was exactly how Lynn Wallwork and her husband Alistair, 53, felt about their two papillon pooches, Candy and Tara.
‘I’d grown up with dogs and adored them. I became a dog groomer, and when I met Alistair in 1997, we always had two or three at a time,’ says the 58-year-old from Egerton, Lancashire. ‘I couldn’t imagine life without them.’
The pair got Candy in 2020, followed by her half-sister, Tara, eight months later. ‘Instantly, they were inseparable. Candy was the