This is my old girl Buffy, she is almost 11 and I have had her for 10 years. She is a rescue dog, she was actually found hanging from a tree while some "children" beat her with stick and stubbed cigarettes out on her 
It took me months and months to re habilitate her and she is just a fantastic dog, though she is still wary of teenagers walking towards her, makes her hide behind me..............
This is Flynn, this was taken when he was a baby awwww He is also a rescue dog, he came from Death Row in Ireland.... His mum was an Irish Setter and his dad was possibly a collie.........
He is enormous now (35kilo's) and completely mental. He has all the sillyness of a setter combined with the brains of a collie, my mad genius !!
I also have a hamster called Fudgie, she is slightly camera shy though !!!