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Music: Dolly Parton offers to adopt “Dolly” the dog

FILE - In this Sunday, June 29, 2014 file photo, U.S singer Dolly Parton performs at Glastonbury music festival, England. Dolly Parton wants to take an unlikely fan home with her. Dolly” the dog was found abandoned at Britain’s Glastonbury music festival in one of the thousands of tents which spring up every year at the countryside festival, famous for rain and mud as much as its star performers. After Parton wowed more than 150,000 people she heard about the dog with the fluffy white coat and offered to adopt it. “I will take the dog home to America if nobody claims her,” she said in a statement Sunday, July 6, 2014. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP, File)

LONDON (AP) — Dolly Parton wants to take an unlikely fan home.

FILE – In this Sunday, June 29, 2014 file photo, U.S singer Dolly Parton performs at Glastonbury music festival, England. Dolly Parton wants to take an unlikely fan home with her. Dolly” the dog was found abandoned at Britain’s Glastonbury music festival in one of the thousands of tents which spring up every year at the countryside festival, famous for rain and mud as much as its star performers. After Parton wowed more than 150,000 people she heard about the dog with the fluffy white coat and offered to adopt it. “I will take the dog home to America if nobody claims her,” she said in a statement Sunday, July 6, 2014. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP, File)

“Dolly” the dog was abandoned after the country music legend’s performance at the Glastonbury festival last month. The fluffy white lurcher was found after 150,000 revelers decamped the site in the southwest of England, and was being fostered Monday by the Happy Landings animal shelter.

Parton has pledged to adopt the dog, which staff at the shelter named in her honor.

“I will take the dog home to America if nobody claims her,” the singer said in a statement.

“Dolly” is being treated for an ear infection at Happy Landings, which is near the festival site and is appealing for donations.

The shelter says in a statement that Dolly — the dog that is — is a “sweet-natured older lady” and that it is trying to determine her owner.

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