Animal lover Emma Mclean said it was 'love at first sight' after she saw a video of a disabled and blind dog living in Egypt. Warda, who had broken legs, was limping around a shelter in Cairo when she first came to Emma's attention.
Warda, a Baladi dog, lived at the shelter since being cruelly beaten with "a plank of wood with a nail in it". The video prompted 37-year-old Emma to raise £760 in 48 hours to fly Warda to the UK.
Four months later, in February 2022, the pooch was with Emma and her her husband Stewart, 42, and their children Ella-Grace, five, and James two, at their home in Saint Osyth, Essex. Describing the horrific ordeal Warda endured before being scooped up from the street by Chance Animal Rescue in Cairo, Emma said: “She was basically cornered by a gentleman, for want of a better word, with a plank of wood with a nail in it.
