Stay · The Last Dog in Antarctica

Left on the streets of Hobart to collect money for the Royal Guide Dogs, a fibreglass Labrador called ‘Girl’ dreams of adventure.

One night some rowdy Antarctic expeditioners walk past and before she knows it, Girl has been dognapped and smuggled aboard the Aurora Australis. She is headed south with a new Antarctic name – ‘Stay’.

But Antarctica throws up more adventures than Stay ever imagined. She’s slimed by King Neptune, picked on by Antarctic huskies, dropped, repaired, hidden, flown, chained up, liberated, befriended, lost and betrayed. Will she ever make it back to Australia with the money she’s raised for the Guide Dogs?

This first book in a new animal series by award-winning author Jesse Blackadder is based on the true story of Stay, who was smuggled to Antarctica in 1991 and is still having adventures there today