An American rescue dog is enjoying a new lease of life after taking a 7,000-mile trip to the UK for life-saving heart surgery. Blanche the Chihuahua was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and her owner Hannah Robinson was told that her only option was for Blanche to have palliative care.
However, Hannah was determined that Blanche would get the surgery she needed but after doing some research, she realised it was only available in the UK and the Far East. She got in touch with specialist vets Dick White Referrals in Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, and after speaking about the process, she decided to go ahead with the surgery. Blanche and Hannah then boarded a flight from their home town of Kansas in the USA to England - so Blanche could get the life-changing surgery.
Hannah said: "Blanche had been given about a year, so I was racing against the clock to help her. I spoke to the team at DWR and then I got the call from them to say ‘how soon can you get here?’ We flew there within two-and-a-half weeks and Blanche had the surgery."
