A DOG lover from Basingstoke has said that setting up a dog hotel brought positivity back into her life after going through years of unsuccessful IVF.

Lucy Light, who lives in Oakley set up a dachshund hotel after she and her husband, Simon, went through 10 years of unsuccessful IVF

She said: “Me and my partner tried to have children for years and it never worked except just once but I then had a miscarriage.

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“I was always just going to work and feeling sad and so I quit my job. Around the same time, one of my dogs passed away and it was just such a traumatic year for me.”

She lives with her husband Simon Light and their “beautiful mini sausage dogs” Millie Moo and Dolly. Lucy describes herself as a “full-time sausage dog mum" and started up the hotel in order to move on with her life, after accepting she would be unable to have children.

Lucy, previously worked as a legal secretary but quit her job following the string of bad news.

She said she managed to turn the horrible experience into something positive by starting up the sausage dog hotel, which is called The Long Dog Hotel.

The hotel has been up and running now for two years which she said has “turned my life around”.

She added: “I love all the dogs and I look after them all as if they are my own children, I thought that I could put the love I would have given to children into the dogs.”

Lucy looks after sausage dogs that are nervous, anxious, older, and the ones with intervertebral disc disease (IVDD).

She added: “My Millie Moo has had a back operation three times for IVDD, so I am well aware of how to deal with it.

"I am niche in what I do but I just didn’t think it would take off as well as it has but I just love the dogs, they are a very loud and full of life but I just absolutely love them.”

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Every time anyone books their dog into her hotel Lucy donates money to the Dedicated to Dachshunds with IVDD charity.

The hotel takes in mini sausage dogs and Lucy said “it is like a holiday for them" and she even takes them on days out to the "seaside" and on different walks.

For more information about the hotel, visit: www.longdoghotel.co.uk.

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