Once Bella feels better, she will hold her ears straight up - this sweet youngster has a nasty cold.

Meet Bella, a sweet and petite white girl, who landed on our doorstep with a cough - she has a case of kennel cough and we are lucky to have her in a foster home getting nursed back to health.

Even a bit under the weather, Bella was so happy to be "sprung" that she trotted with a bounce in her step out to the car and hopped right in. Bella seems to be fine with other dogs and, in her foster home, she is living with two cats.

We think that Bella is perhaps a shade over 12 months old.