Competition time.

Competition.

Hello, this is Jana, and I'm here with part two of our winning entries for our pet writing competition.

We have four very different stories for you.

Well done to Sylvia Belcher, Amidala and Paul and Dorothy.

Here is a story written by Sylvia Belcher aged 15 from Canada.

She says, Dear Jana Elizabeth, Abby was a mixed breed rescue, but our vet thinks she was most likely a border collie lab mix.

Heroes never start as heroes. In Abby's case, she started as a stray puppy, starving under a set of stairs.

Abby and her sister were scared.

Their mother was gone, and they were the only two left in their family.

They hadn't eaten in days and weren't sure how much longer they would last.

They cuddled together for warmth and at last when they thought all was lost,

a hand reached under the stairs and picked up the two tiny shivering balls of fluff.

One pure white and one almost completely black. The two puppies were so relieved to come into the

warm rescue foundation. For a few weeks they gained their strength and became healthy young dogs

ready to find a family. Abby didn't know she was saying goodbye to her pure white sister, but they

each went to a different

family one night. Abby wasn't sure what to think of her new family. Dad with a huge red beard,

mum with the warmest hugs and two very excited little girls. The youngest had absolutely no hesitation about jumping on top of Abby.

The older girl, who was four, was a little shy, but right away decided that there was only

one name for the new puppy, Abbey Cadabie, after her favourite TV show character.

Mum and Dad agreed, but Abbey Cadabie was usually just called Abby.

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