A LARGE Weimaraner bounds over in joyous greeting, but there’s no sign of the little person we’ve come to see.
It’s several minutes before a small head peeks out from a room down the hall – and when she realises she’s been spotted she quickly ducks back into the room and then proceeds to flit from one room to the next.
“She’s terribly shy,” mom Jean-Mari van Vuuren (42) tells us. “We’re trying to get her to do a little better among people, but she struggles.”
The Van Vuurens, who live in Langeberg Ridge in Kraaifontein, Cape Town, have learnt it’s better to leave six-year-old Lara at home when they go shopping and visits with friends are limited.
But they’re happy to
