{"id":717107,"date":"2026-07-29T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717107\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:54:17","slug":"britains-loneliest-dog-at-battersea-old-windsor-finds-forever-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717107\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Britain&#8217;s loneliest&#8217; dog at Battersea Old Windsor finds forever home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Year 6 teacher, who had previously owned cats, revealed she had never intended to get a dog but fell in love with Danny after spotting a Battersea Instagram post about his long stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sandra said: &#8220;From the moment we met him, there was something incredibly special about him and we just knew that we would be his forever family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained her first meeting with Danny went really well and, despite his anxiety, he was very relaxed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It felt really natural. My husband initially was very reluctant to have a dog but I knew once he saw him there would be no going back,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was love at first sight, Danny was lovely and when we were leaving he gave me one last nudge and turned round to look at me, as if to say &#8216;are you coming back?&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Year 6 teacher, who had previously owned cats, revealed she had never intended to get a dog&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}