Mum reunited with beloved dog she was forced to give up - after new owners cruelly 'neglected her and left her blind'

A mum who was forced to give up her beloved husky has been reunited with her after four years - after her new owners cruelly 'neglected her and left her blind'.

Shireen Rodgers bought Siberian Husky Ely from a breeder as a two-year-old dog in 2016.

She was much-loved pet to her and her then three-year-old daughter for next two years.

But the 29-year-old was forced to make the heartbreaking decision to rehome her after getting complaints from the business below her flat in Lancashire about her howling while she was out.

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Four years later, in January 2022, she got a call out of the blue from a vet in Blackpool about Ely.

The vet said an emaciated husky with Shireen's contact details on the microchip had been brought to them by a member of the public.

The farm worker, who now has a home set in open fields, picked her up within the hour and took her back in, confessing she'd never stopped thinking about her.

The mum-of-two now vows to nurse eight-year-old Ely back to health and allow her to enjoy the rest of her life.

Shireen, from Garstang, said: "I had a missed phone call from a vet in Blackpool and they said 'we've got a dog here that's microchipped to you' and it was Ely.

"I explained the situation and the vet said 'she's rather underweight and unwell' so I said I'd come and pick her up.

"They explained that she wasn't in good health and that she was blind, which was heart breaking because she's not an old dog. She shouldn't be blind.

"They brought her in and it was awful - she looked like she should be dead.

"She was literally just bone with a fur coat stretched over the top.

"The only thing that would've been recognisable