For anyone in Hampshire a friend has just posted this on her fb page: http://www.hampshire.police.uk/internet/news-and-appeals/44120502136-dogs-stolen-bullington-owslebury
Re: Working dog thefts in Hampshire Thank you for that it's absolutely terrible. The same thing happened last Christmas/New Year in Hampshire. We live in Hampshire but I am betting nobody would want to steel Charlie and if they did they would soon return him!!! Helen
Re: Working dog thefts in Hampshire Oh how absolutely terrible and devastating for the owners . I find myself getting paranoid about Sam , a man was watching him retrieving in the woods today and remarked how he loved to see a working dog , he was most likely completely innocent but there is a real problem with dog theft down here in Cornwall too, just horrible x
Re: Working dog thefts in Hampshire Oh that really is awful - there's one aspect of neutering that Pippa doesn't mention in her article - a neutered dog is a lot less interesting to thieves. I never discuss Rusty's line with people I meet or talk about how much I paid for him - you just never know.
Re: Working dog thefts in Hampshire Had some thefts here in Lingfield a few months ago as well. Working Cockers taken from a kennel. As you say, it's really only the intact ones they are interested in because they can breed from them.
Re: Working dog thefts in Hampshire It unconfirmed at the moment but there we have heard that three men in a green Subaru have been detained in relation to the dog crimes over Christmas. Fingers crossed they've got them and the dogs an be recovered
Re: Working dog thefts in Hampshire Lets hope so. I read about a lady walking her very beautiful GSP, the dog went a little way ahead of her, a van was spotted loading the dog and driving off with her before the owner could do anything. She was heartbroken and so are her children. Terrible. :'( Helen
