Small World. How likely is this?

[SpikeyBush]

I recently got a lovely boxer from a rehoming centre. They said she'd been left in by an old dear who was going into a care home.

The missus was out on our estate taking her for a walk when a couple of girls approached her and started fussing the dog, who obviously knew them. Turns out she used to belong to their grandmother.

Well at least I can get word back to her previous owner that she has found a loving home.

The rehoming centre was 30 miles away.

[ladybirder]

That's amazing but how lovely. The previous owner will be so pleased and I bet the granddaughters were as well. Nice story.

[slinkycat]

What a lovely story, it will be so comforting to the old lady to know that her pet has been rehomed.

[Buenchico]

If we're discussing pet coincidences . . .

My friend has a had a succession of English setters. First she had Tudor (her choice of name). Then she had Tizer (which was already his name, as he came from someone who had used him for showing at Crufts, and for breeding, but who no longer had a use for him). Then she got another Setter puppy, whom she called Topaz. When (because, sadly, dogs don't live as long as humans) she was seeking yet another Setter, I jokingly suggested that she should only consider a dog who had a two-syllable name, beginning with 'T'.

Eventually the English Setter Rescue Association found her another dog, who had already been named by his previous owners. Amazingly, they'd called him Toby ;-)