A NEWPORT woman went to the shops and returned to find her dog had eaten her front door.

Ceri Anne Lewis Hall, 35, left her home in Lambourne Crescent in Bettws, to buy some treats, toys and a new bed for her dog Poppy but returned to find her letterbox had been eaten.

Poppy, a two-year-old cross between an Old English Sheepdog and German Shepherd, had eaten the plastic letterbox leaving a hole.

Ceri Anne Lewis Hall, a care assistant, said: “I came back and as I pulled up I thought, what on earth has happened to my door?

“My heart dropped, I thought, oh my god I have been burgled.

“But then I thought, where is my letterbox?

“All of a sudden Poppy’s head popped through the letter box hole.

“I sat in my car for five minutes, in complete shock. Then I thought I best go face the music.

“I got the carrier bags out with the treats. She’s all excited, she’s running circles around me. And I just looked at my door. All the plastic had gone up the stairs, in the living room.”

Poppy, who is nicknamed Poppy the Destroyer, had just been spayed two weeks early and Ms Hall said she was on relaxing tablets “for keeping her calm”.

“I couldn’t laugh, I couldn’t cry,” mum-of-two Ms Hall said. “It was bonkers”.

Ms Hall said she initially decided the family couldn’t keep Poppy at home.

“We spoke to dog charity Woofles and they said they would take her on,” Ms Hall said.

“This was on the Wednesday. I spent two days crying, not eating, not sleeping. I made myself more ill and more upset so I couldn’t do it. I thought I was going to have to get rid of her.”

The family have decided to keep Poppy.

“She’s lovely, she’s good as gold,” Ms Hall said. “She just wants to love you and be loved. But the moment you leave her, well her nickname is Poppy the Destroyer."