Animal lover Jenny Moss did not have to think too long when faced with the choice of having new double glazing or spending £2,500 rescuing a desperately sick dog she had fallen in love with in Cuba.

She made the decision easily and spent the money bringing home the stray street dog she had befriended while on holiday.

Instead of soaking up the sights and sounds of Cuba, animal-lover Jenny Moss, from Ashurst, spent the first week of her vacation last November organising medical attention for the malnourished Doberman cross.

She found the sick and dying mongrel when she visited the Caribbean island on a two-week luxury break with a friend and decided she had to do something to help him.

Jenny befriended Cuban professor Arturo Leguen Lores who agreed to look after the stray at his grandmother's home until she could arrange the necessary documents.

In February Jenny returned to Cuba to bring Lucky home on a mercy flight back to the UK.

Now the healthy and bouncy 18-month-old Dober-man cross has completed his six months in quarantine and has gone to live with Jenny's daughter Sandra Gammie in Ashurst Bridge.

Jenny, 60, of Whartons Lane, Ashurst said: "I have got two dogs of my own and I thought I just had to do something for him.

"Even if I got him treatment he would have to go back on to the streets, so I decided I would either try and get him back to England or have him put down.

"I love dogs and I let my heart rule my head. It has cost us £2,500 to get him back.

"We were going to have new double glazing put in but I told my husband I did not care about that as the dog meant more to me.

"This dog just pulled on my heartstrings and it was just meant to be."