THE Dog House viewers were in floods of tears after a nine-year-old girl found her dream pet. The young girl called Kiya was overwhelmed when she met an adorable cockapoo puppy on Thursday's episode.
Channel 4 viewers were introduced to Kiya who was diagnosed with mitochondrial disease when she was younger. The condition meant that she had to give up certain activities and had hoped to find a "small and fluffy" pooch to keep her busy.
Kiya's mum explained: "She is like a Jack Russell, very small, but feisty, but she's got a really great sense of humour. "We just need [a dog] which isn't going to knock Kiya over and she wants one which can sit on her lap in her wheelchair." Kiya suffers with Mitochondrial Disease, this means that the mitochondria in the cells are not producing enough energy.
Sometimes they are not very efficient or they do not work at all. The staff at Wood Green animal charity were unsure if a puppy would be too much work for Kiya, but decided to introduce her to a litter of three cockapoo puppies that were around around seven weeks old.
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