‘Britain’s loneliest dog’ finds home after three years in kennels

A dog rescued from a property where she was being kept with 200 others has found a new home after nearly three years in kennels.

Collie cross Sadie was rescued by the RSPCA after being found living in unsuitable conditions in outdoor compounds in Cornwall, the charity said.

The five-year-old dog could not be rehomed immediately due to legal processes. But once cleared for adoption she was still in RSPCA kennels after 1,000 days with staff describing her as “Britain’s loneliest dog”.

In a bid to find her forever home, they posted a video a day of Sadie on social media. On day 83, Mabel Edge from Westward Ho! in Devon stumbled across one of the clips before decided she would adopt her.

Edge said: “When I first saw the clips of her, I was taken by how sweet she seemed and couldn’t believe she’d been waiting for a home for so long.

“I found myself checking back in every day to see what she’d been up to, and said to my partner Al how sad it was that nobody wanted her.

“And then he said, ‘well why don’t we go and look at her?'”

The couple visited Sadie four times at the RSCPA centre before taking her home.