Although details of her life before us were scant, I knew she'd come from a puppy farm in Wales and had been found seriously underweight, with a prolapsed womb, teeth and skin infections, almost blinded
by untreated eye disease and cataracts and tied with rope around her neck in the back of an old barn.
Oddly enough, one of the dogs purchased
by the PSPCA at the Ohio auction three months later was a black Cocker Spaniel with an
untreated cherry
eye in its left
eye from Zimmerman's kennels!