WITH Uggie, the canine star of the film 'The Artist' being nominated for a Golden Collar Award, could it be the turn of a Holsworthy dog to win a canine Booker Prize?

In 'Home Thoughts On Abroad', which has just been published, a 12-year- old collie called Chloe has 'written' about her life since being transported from her five-acre home at Gidgegannup in the bush near Perth, Western Australia, where she had spent the first seven years of her life, to her new home in North Road, Holsworthy.

Her owners, Malcolm Orr and his wife Jeannette, who hails from Bude, returned to England in 2007 for family reasons after 27 years in Australia. They had to leave Chloe behind for six months in quarantine until she was able to fly to Heathrow.

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