His new owner said: ‘When I used to pick him up, he was like a big, heavy marshmallow’ (Picture: Mercury Press)A bichon frise who weighed a whopping 13.5kg looks completely different after going on a diet and getting plenty of exercise.

Tania started training Pixie in lockdown (Picture: Tania Butler / SWNS)Tania, of Waikato, New Zealand, said: ‘I wanted to teach her a new trick, she knows quite a few and wanted to do something a bit different.

Workers at an Ikea in Italy have transformed the store into a makeshift shelter for stray dogs with nowhere else to go. A post shared by noahromley (@noahromley) on Oct 21, 2018 at 9:58am PDT