Kennel maids Julie Cockrill (left) and Marie Simpson hug Alsatian pup Peggoty at Mrs Murrays Cat and Dog Home in 1988.
{"Image ImageWidth": "1440", "Image ImageLength": "1100", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image ImageDescription": "Aberdeen Cat and Dog Home 1988-12-23 (C)AJL\nKennel maids Julie Cockrill (left) and Marie Simpson hug alsatian pup Peggoty. 23 December 1988.\n\nUsed E.E. 23.12.1988.\n\u2018Kennel maids Julie Cockrill (left) and Marie Simpson find Alsatian pup Peggoty quite handful.\u2019\n\u2018Spare a thought for Jack Carle when you\u2019re tucking into Christmas dinner on Sunday\u2026 he\u2019ll have up to 40 boarders to feed!\nBut they won\u2019t be getting the traditional festive fare of turkey, stuffing and Christmas pudding.\nOn the menu is chicken, bone-shaped chews and chocolate drops as special treats in addition to the usual food.\nMr Carle has been superintendent at Mrs Murray\u2019s Home for Stray Dogs and Cats for the past 20 years. \nThis year he\u2019ll be the only person working at the home beside the Links at Aberdeen beach, looking after the city\u2019s down-and-out and unwanted animals.\n\u2018\u2019I hope there aren\u2019t more than 25 on Christmas Day but it could be as much as 40,\u2019\u2019 said Jack.\nThe home, which is funded by charity, celebrates its 100th birthday in 1990 and over the years has given shelter to thousands of waifs and strays.\nChristmas, however, has not tended to produce a flood of rejected animals, according to Jack. \nAnd his message is simple: \u2018\u2019I always say never buy any kind of animal as a present unless it\u2019s for your own children and you\u2019ve thought about it. Anyway, Christmas is a bad time to take a dog or cat into a house.\u2019", "Image Make": "EPSON", "Image Model": "Expression 12000XL", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image PlanarConfiguration": "1", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "OneVision Amendo Scale 18.1", "Image DateTime": "2021:02:15 14:46:18", "Image Artist": "Unknown", "Image Copyright": "Aberdeen Journals Ltd.", "Image ExifOffset": "1798", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0210", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2019:10:25 13:47:14", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Adobe RGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1920", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1467", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R03", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "1908"}