Meet Flora the ‘dog doctor’

Six-year-old Flora is already a multi-award winner at Crufts — but for her owner, Robert Stuhldreer, 57, she’s also, quite simply, a lifesaver. For 12 years Robert had suffered from blackouts that his doctors couldn’t explain even though they put his life at risk. But within weeks of Robert acquiring Flora — an Akita, a large breed native to Japan — as a puppy, that all changed.