Ulrika Jonsson devastated as her rescue bulldog battles dementia: ‘Such a cruel disease’

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Best magazine.‘On walks, he can forget what is happening, and just stops, or turns around and insists on going in the opposite direction.

He doesn’t always respond to my name – but still knows what a T-R-E-A-T is.’Ulrika admitted she didn’t know that dogs could have dementia. ‘It had never occurred to me that dogs could have dementia, until I spoke to a fellow dog owner.

It’s such a cruel disease,’ the mother-of-four penned.Ulrika was meant to be fostering Fella for just two weeks, but couldn’t bring herself to let him go and eventually adopted him permanently.He came to her with a ‘mouth full of tumours’ as well as a broken jaw, arthritis and testicular cancer.The former Gladiators host said he was ‘covered in fleas’ and handed to her on a.