Rosier life for dog with nine lives

Life was not looking rosy for a dog called Ruby just a fortnight ago - she had been abandoned in a Manawatu rubbish skip.

Her animal shelter says she had probably been abused and neglected for years, but now she is a dog with nine lives. She gave birth to six male and three female pups on Sunday.
Ruby is now being looked after at a privately run animal shelter near Feilding.

"She's definitely had quite a few beatings I would say, because if you go near her at certain stages she's very unsure of your hands," Theresa Sharman-Richards of Nassus Animal Shelter says. MORE>>