AN adorable puppy, who is lucky to be alive after being rescued abroad, will be given a new home in North Yorkshire.

Animal-lover Vicky Broadhead, of Brayton, near Selby, is adopting a six-month-old labrador cross called Lilly from Romania, where she says many dogs are abandoned or even killed.

Lilly was rescued by the charity, Bring Me Home Romanian Adoptions, which found her on a street when she was about four-weeks old.

She is being transported in a van from Romania to England, and will arrive in Grimsby tomorrow, where she will be kept in quarantine kennels. Vicky will be able to take her home on Saturday.

Full-time mum Vicky, 38, has received £200 from Ebor Carpets in Osbaldwick and £30 from friends to adopt Lilly, which covers the costs for transport and injections.

She said: “There is a massive cull in Romania, they’re killing lots of dogs. Quite a lot of people in England have started to adopt them.

“Bring Me Home Adoptions either picks the dogs up from the street or from kill shelters.”

She added: “I felt I had to do something, even if it was just one dog. It’s another life saved.

“If you see the pictures and the state the dogs are in, it’s horrific. You feel for them.

“I would definitely encourage other people to do this. There’s every kind of dog to choose from.”

Lilly was in a foster home in Romania when Vicky first saw a picture of her on Bring Me Home Romanian Adoptions’ Facebook page. She was meant to be adopted by someone else in England, but that person changed their mind before Vicky decided to adopt her.

Before paying a deposit to adopt Lilly, Vicky had to have a home check and fill in a pre-adoption questionnaire so the charity could determine if she was suitable for the dog.

Kirk Jackson, director of Ebor Carpets, said: “I decided to help as I thought it was a good cause. I didn’t want Lilly to be put to sleep. I am a dog lover myself, unfortunately I can’t have a dog as I’m allergic to them but I used to have a dog when I was a child.”

Vicky, who has three children, also owns a jackawawa, a Jack Russell and chihuahua cross.

She said: “I’ve always been an animal lover and my husband is as well.”

Bring Me Home Romanian Adoptions aims to re-home as many Romanian dogs as it can.

The charity said: “Some of the dogs that we will promote have been found abandoned on the streets, sometimes just a puppy, with no chance of survival. Some, have been rescued from the public kill shelters, facing imminent death. Others have been born in safe rescue.”