"What are you doing?": Woman thought her dog was just being 'weird'... but she was trying to save her life

A woman has said her dog 'saved her life' after she sniffed out her breast cancer.

Claire Churchill said her Jack Russell-Chihuahua cross Holly would not stop 'scratching', 'crying' and 'murmuring' at her left breast, YorkshireLive reports. She said she would 'paw' at the lump and would not leave it alone.

Claire eventually went to get checked and was diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2020. She described Holly, who she rescued from a rescue centre on Boxing Day in 2019, as her 'angel'.

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Claire, 36, said: "When I first got her, I thought she was just weird. She would always stuff her nose down my top...As she got bigger towards the summer of 2020, she started pawing at my boob - only my left - and started scratching.

"She used to fall asleep on my left breast, not the other. It was going on and on and on."

In August 2020, Claire said Holly 'wouldn't leave' her breast alone. She said: "I thought 'what are you doing?'

"I thought I had some crisps or a biscuit down there. I started feeling around down there and thought I could feel a lump. I thought 'it doesn't feel very good...'

"I wouldn't have checked myself...She [Holly] was really distressed about it [the lump]. I called the doctors - it was the middle of lockdown - and because of the backlog and delays they couldn't check it until October 2020. By that time it was the size of an orange and you could see it through my bra and top."

Claire was diagnosed with breast cancer in November that year. She underwent a mastectomy in December last year and had chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

She said: "All of 2021 I had my treatment - it took a good year. It was Covid so I was