Home, with a shaggy dog story to tell

If dogs could talk, little Aaliyah would say thank you. In her fruitful life, the black staffordshire has not only nursed a litter of chihuahua puppies and a litter of kittens, but more recently escaped a lonely death and had a name change.

After four months of roaming the streets, being impounded, saved and put through a course run by the Nelson charitable trust Ark, Aaliyah has been reunited with her grateful owners.

Aaliyah's family moved to Nelson from Queenstown last October, but soon after their loved pooch disappeared. After searching for a month, owners Toni Stewart and Ronald Prakash ran out of hope after hearing that a dog with a similar description had been re-homed by the SPCA.

About three months later,... MORE>>