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PET PROTECTION
“It really needs mending before this winter comes. I just couldn’t afford to pay you.”
“Oh, I don’t want to be paid,” Emily said in a surprised voice. Then she laughed. “I’d pay you if it meant I got to hang around with the dogs. And I meant to say, I brought a letter from my mum, with her phone number and everything, saying it’s OK for me to help.”
Lucy nodded. “That’s a good idea. I’ll call her, just to say hello. So she knows who I am.” She smiled at Emily, and at Maya who’d come up behind them. “Well, if you’re going to help, you’d better come and meet everybody else.”
“There’s more?” Maya said, surprised.
Lucy laughed. “Oh yes. Another whole big area for cats – that’s the old stables. And we’ve got quite a lot of guinea pigs, a couple of rabbits, and even a pony. Oh, and the chickens.”
“Chickens? At an animal shelter?” Emily stared at her in surprise as they started to cross the yard.
“Mmm-hmm. They’re rescued battery hens.”
“Wow,” Emily muttered. “I thought just dogs and cats. I never knew you had all these other animals.”
Lucy shrugged. “Well, I never meant to have the chickens. Someone just rang up and said could we
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