Thanks for your lovely comments....yes I think Tammy had a terrible life....I actually thought at first she was a puppy farm mother who had lived in a shed all her life, but I plucked up the courage to write to the ex owner to ask if she had ever had pups, and the way I worded it, he could have said yes, and it would have been fine. He replied saying she had never had pups, and I believed his reply from what he wrote. So at least she hasn't had pups every 6 months....I think he was just short of cash and feeling guilty about the state she was in, and decided to get rid of Tammy and the other older female he had, - which he had sold on before I came for Tammy. I wonder what state
that dog was in and whether the new owner had the sense to get it treatment too !!! I think Tammy had been used to fighting that other dog for food, going on how she has been at feeding times here. She is finally starting to slow down and realise that Tara and Mannie won't steal hers !
Look at the difference in her since we have had her.....

the first pic is Tammy all clipped and still ill, after her first bath.... I have tried to make her pretty with a bow in her hair, but she is so scrawny !

the second is her now.....a different dog !
p.s. your dogs are lovely !!! I would love them all !!!

DEBRA