OT - STOLEN DOGS : Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:00 pm  

2 Springer Spaniels (one of them mine) have been taken, one last Tuesday from Newton and one this Tuesday from Burtonwood. Despite contacting the police, dog wardens, rescues, kennels and vets and putting posters up around the area neither dog has been sighted. Both familes are desperate to get their dogs home and are offering rewards. Jenny (my dog) has a facebook page JENNY MISSING SPRINGER SPANIEL and the other dog Jess has a page, missing springer spaniel jess. Please join these pages and keep an eye out for our dogs. Someone somewhere must have them and we really need to get them home. Jenny is also on the Warrington Worldwide website http://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/a ... Page1.html THANKS

2 Springer Spaniels (one of them mine) have been taken, one last Tuesday from Newton and one this Tuesday from Burtonwood. Despite contacting the police, dog wardens, rescues, kennels and vets and putting posters up around the area neither dog has been sighted. Both familes are desperate to get their dogs home and are offering rewards. Jenny (my dog) has a facebook page JENNY MISSING SPRINGER SPANIEL and the other dog Jess has a page, missing springer spaniel jess. Please join these pages and keep an eye out for our dogs. Someone somewhere must have them and we really need to get them home. Jenny is also on the Warrington Worldwide website http://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/a ... Page1.html THANKS

Re: OT - STOLEN DOGS : Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:30 pm  

I hate the very idea of this. Hope you get your dog back dude.

Re: OT - STOLEN DOGS : Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:05 pm  

Thanks, we're trying to stay positive.

Re: OT - STOLEN DOGS : Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:18 pm  

Is there any evidence that the dog was stolen? Given the size of the field you are talking about, is it not possible the dog just followed a trail or two too many and got lost?

Hope you find it.

Re: OT - STOLEN DOGS : Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:18 am  

We stayed in the area where she went missing for 24 hours constantly, we even slept in the car there that night. We have 2 other Springers and we have other friends with dogs and we ahave combed that area every day since, even if a human didn't find her one of the dogs would. We didn't think she'd been stolen at first as it's quite remote there but the fact that she hasn't been seen since means someone has here. We'd have been informed if she'd been picked knocked down, I have spoken to both Warrington and St Helens police and councils and they have a duty to check if a dog is chipped if they pick it up after an accident. Whether or not she was deliberately taken initially or just made her way to the road and was then picked up by someone passing, it is an offence to keep someone else's dog ;

The Environmental Protection Act 1990 Sec 150 requires the finder of a stray dog to:
· return the dog to its owner; or
· contact the local authority for the area in which the dog was found
If the finder fails to take one of these courses of action, he will have committed an offence and would be liable, upon conviction, to a fine.
If the finder requests to keep the dog, he must supply the officer with his contact details and details of the dog. The officer is required to keep a record of these details.
Regulations require that the officer makes appropriate enquiries to ascertain that the finder is a suitable person to keep the dog. The finder must then be informed verbally and in writing that he is obliged to keep the dog (if unclaimed by the owner) for not less than one month and that failure to comply with that obligation is a criminal offence.

She is microchipped and this was checked last year to make sure it's still readable. I'e also been contacting rescue centres and vets daily. Reading on lsot/found dog forums it's amazing the number of people who see a dog wandering round and decode to just keep it, not thinking that someone somewhere is frantic with worry. We searched 3 miles of adjacent farmland yesterday in Bold, a farm she is familiar with but no sign again. She is very white and would stand out like a sore thumb for miles so we are 99% certain she is no longer in the area.

Re: OT - STOLEN DOGS : Sun Nov 28, 2010 10:59 am  

Good luck,
We had to have our 15 year old springer Inga (guess who he was named after) put to sleep last year, and we still miss him.
To have yours stolen must be terrible, I really hope you find her.

Re: OT - STOLEN DOGS : Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:33 pm  

She's home safe and well. Unbelievably one of our other dogs found her in an area we had covered over and over again. She seems fine and is snoozing on the settee with a full tummy

Re: OT - STOLEN DOGS : Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:34 pm  

She's home safe and well. Unbelievably one of our other dogs found her in an area we had covered over and over again. She seems fine and is snoozing on the settee with a full tummy

Re: OT - STOLEN DOGS : Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:43 pm  

are you blind ref wrote:

She's home safe and well. Unbelievably one of our other dogs found her in an area we had covered over and over again. She seems fine and is snoozing on the settee with a full tummy

Thats spaniels for you. We've got a cocker spaniel now, so I know how exciting they find rabbit trails. She's probably been having the adventure of a lifetime chasing an unusual scent without even noticing you'd gone

Re: OT - STOLEN DOGS : Sun Nov 28, 2010 6:40 pm  

are you blind ref wrote:

She's home safe and well. Unbelievably one of our other dogs found her in an area we had covered over and over again. She seems fine and is snoozing on the settee with a full tummy

Brillliant news,