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some of the animals?”
Emily nodded enthusiastically. Lucy hadn’t said
yes to wanting a helper, but at least if she was letting them look around, it must mean she wasn’t totally against the idea?
She followed Lucy in through one of the doors set around the edge of the yard, and blinked as they came in out of the bright sunlight outside.
“This used to be the dairy,” Lucy explained.
The long, low building ran all along one side of the yard. It was a line of pens, opening out on to a passageway, and each pen had a dog or maybe two inside. As they saw Lucy and Emily and the others, they leapt up excitedly, scratching at the wire fronts of the pens, and barking.
“So many!” Maya murmured, as she looked down the long passage.
“We’re quite full at the moment,” Lucy agreed. “Twenty-three dogs. That’s including the six puppies though.”
“Do you get lots of visitors wanting to rehome them?” Maya’s dad asked, crouching down to let a pretty little Jack Russell lick his fingers through the bars.
Lucy sighed. “Not enough, to be honest. That little 20