A cute cavapoo puppy has been given a second chance at life after undergoing life-saving heart surgery in Northumberland.
Scans revealed that Nancy, who weighed in at roughly two bags of sugar at 2.5kg, had been born with a rare heart defect. It can be a killer, with more than three-quarters of pups affected developing signs of congential heart disease in their first year.
Following surgery at Moorview Referrals in Cramlington, Nancy is now full of life and her owner Lynne Robson is just thankful that the potentially deadly condition was spotted so early in Nancy's life. Lynne said: "A couple of weeks before her second vaccination I had to take Nancy to the emergency vets with bacterial cystitis and the vet said she could hear a heart murmur.
