It was a nervous wait for young Peyton Flanner as the bids rolled in for the kelpie she had been training all year — but luckily a huge bid from her rural community meant pup Blake would be staying with her.

The $10,000 sum paid for the kelpie brought the total raised at the Kelpies for Kids auction at the Perth Royal Show to $48,000, with all the funds going to Telethon.

It was a nail-biting battle to buy Blake as a NSW based bidder kept offering more money but luckily the final bid meant the pup would remain in Boyup Brook, where he can have sleepovers with Peyton.

Training Blake had become a reprieve for Peyton who has been regularly travelling a 520km round trip to Perth Children’s Hospital for chemotherapy for the last four years.

Her mum Kym Flanner said she was over the moon tha

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