A THREE-year-old rescue dog is looking forward to spending his first Christmas in his new home.

This time last year Lurcher Freddie was spending his second Christmas at Dogs Trust Evesham, after originally arriving in February 2018. He has been adopted previously but it wasn’t meant to be and in total waited 700 days in kennels for his special someone to take him home.

Lockdown proved lucky for Freddie as Matt Jarvis and Mairi Brookes from Oxford spotted him, and welcomed him into their lives.

Matt said: “We can’t imagine life without Freddie. He is just amazing!

“We had been looking for a Dogs Trust dog for a few months before the coronavirus outbreak, but when lockdown hit and both of us started working from home, we knew this was our chance to welcome a dog into our lives that needed a little extra TLC.

“We spent six weeks getting to know Freddie and he came to stay at our home to see if he liked it. “We really appreciated the new rehoming process as it allowed us to take our time to make sure we were the right family for Freddie – it certainly paid off.”

“We fell in love with him at our first meeting and it’s safe to say he’s here to stay – and he can run around in our garden to his heart’s content!”