FOR most of us a suntan is all we bring back from our holidays but one Ipswich woman has found a new addition to the family after falling in puppy-love while abroad.
Julie Grimwood was on holiday in Crete with her husband, Tony, and daughters Kelly, 13, and Shannon, 10, when a puppy appeared at her temporary home.
Mrs Gimwood, instantly fell in love with the puppy, called Koko, and now hopes to bring it back to her home, in Windrush Road, Kesgrave.
She said: “He turned up two days before we left and I couldn’t take my eyes off him.
“I spoke to the owners of the apartments and they said they were looking after him before he would became a guard dog.
“Dogs out there are kept on short chains in direct sunlight all of the time. They do not get a lot of food or water and hardly any exercise.
“I just knew I had to save him and bring him home to have a better life – it would have broken my heart to leave him.”
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