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It's a dog-eat-good world.
Claire Nash has become a one-woman catering service for shelter dogs. Every Sunday, after she feeds her husband and four children, she takes 44 servings of dinners like Yorkshire pudding, bacon wrapped sausages, and chicken with gravy and vegetables to the Cardiff Dogs Home where she volunteers so that the pups can taste "just a bit of home."
This all started back in March, when she decided to take her family's leftovers to the dogs. There was never enough food to go around and she hated to have to pick which dogs got the royal treatment and which ended up with another bowl of kibble, so she started cooking just for the dogs.
"It was hard choosing which dog to give our left overs to so it escalated from there," she told Wales Online.
Now she's buying and preparing food for a dog army every week.
"The dogs love it," she says, "They can smell it coming the moment I arrive and open the boot of the car. They bark and go mad when they smell it but when the food is in front of them you could hear a pin drop it goes so quiet."
Seems like a lot of trouble to go through just for dogs, but she has actually helped save some of their lives doing this. As Wamiz UK reported,
"For some of the dogs who arrive in poor health, Nash's home-cooking is just what the vet ordered. When one dog, Molly, first arrived, recounts fellow volunteer Susie James, "we couldn't get her to eat anything. She is a tiny little girl, couldn't afford to lose an ounce, yet was getting skinnier by the day. [Claire's] Yorkshire pudding was the first thing she would take, she absolutely loves them!"
Aside from their Sunday dinners, the dogs can also look forward to a special Christmas day dinner of roast turkey with all the trimmings.
"The dogs are here through no fault of their own, and there's nothing better than them having a good bit of home-cooked dinner," she tells Made in Cardiff TV.
(by Myka Fox)
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