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Four-year-old Amber was spotted haring around a field in March, skeletal apart from her bulging pregnant belly and bleeding from sarcoptic mange.
She fled from anyone trying to help but eventually became too exhausted and a dog walker caught and took her to a vet.
It is thought she had been used for backyard breeding and dumped when her owners realised they would have to pay for professional help to deliver her large litter.
The Blue Cross centre in Burford, Oxon, took her in and she soon gave birth to eight puppies. But with Amber too weak to feed them, 25 staff and volunteers at the charity bottle-fed them every three hours.
The pups – named Theodore, Cider, Dougal, Kasper, Winnie, Holly, Sasha and Bailey – have since found new homes.
And Amber has been taken in by Elly Griffith, 38, husband Adam, 42, and their children aged six and nine, in Witney, Oxon. Elly said: “I don’t know how but she is so good with people despite the horrible neglect she had. We really want to spoil her this Christmas.”
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