Mira's story
Here is what Sarah wrote about Mira.

Mira was rescued from the streets of Hungary by the amazing Hungary Hearts Dog Rescue. She was found with her sister, and they travelled to the UK on the happy bus together on their gotcha day of 24th July 2020. She didn't know how to play with a toy, gobbled food and had the indignity of having to share her new home with a cat!

She learnt to trust us and adapted to being a pet. She became friends with the cat and even learnt to share us when we adopted a second dog from Hungary Hearts in February 2023.

I took her to a trainer, Vicky, for some basic training. Despite her horrible start to life, Mira was eager to learn and soaked up the positive interaction with familiar people. However, Mira was fearful of strangers, sudden noises and bizarrely road signs. She was unpredictable and wasn't ready to try agility.

Fast forward 18 months and Mira had bravely overcome many of her fears and was more relaxed around people and dogs. Vicky advertised a 6-week ‘Agility from Scratch' course, and I signed up and so my life changed forever!

Agility is a rollercoaster with Mira - 80% of the time I retrieve her from where she shouldn't be, tell her she doesn't need to parade around the ring checking out who is watching, doesn't need to see if the scrime has treats or remind her there is a course to follow - and it isn't just freestyle! The other 20% she is amazing and shows her true potential and she had some really good results last year. I don't mind which Mira turns up. The stark truth is she would be dead if Hungary Hearts hadn't found her when they did.

Mira is living her best life and loves agility. She is unrecognisable from the dog we picked up in 2020. She has overcome her fears to enter an agility ring and I am proud of every run she does, good or bad.