The Blog For Dogs

When her beloved dog was stolen in north Manchester Katrina Smith feared the worst. Katrina, 60, suffers from lung cancer and relied on Jack, a shih tzu, for emotional support. So when he was snatched from outside a shop in Collyhurst in March she was devastated. Following the theft, which was caught on CCTV, a huge social media […]

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A Government taskforce has been set up to look into tackling the “deplorable” crime of pet theft. In March, DogLost a UK charity that helps victims of dog theft, recorded a 170% increase in the crime, from 172 dogs reported stolen in 2019 to 465 in 2020. The taskforce will look into what is contributing to the […]

A security company is offering tips to dog owners following revelations about the rise in dog thefts during 2020. Safe.co.uk said that police forces up and down the country had reported an alarming increase in pet theft, with Suffolk topping the poll with a 250% increase from the first six months of this year when […]

A mum has shared a warning for dog walkers after her son discovered sausage rolls laced with spikes in a nearby park. The 4-inch pieces of metal were found protruding out of the food in an alleyway heading to Stratton Park, Basingstoke, Hampshire. Tracy Hook said: ‘It’s such a lovely area and I regularly use […]

The following dogs are featured in the DogLost column in the current issue of The Countryman’s Weekly. For further details on each dog, enter the 6 digit DogLost ID in the search box on the website: http://www.doglost.co.uk

A MAN could not believe his luck when he drove past his dog and the thief who stole him. A dog has been reunited with his owner after he was stolen in Plymouth last Friday. Distraught owners Declan Leyland-Lacey and Jenny last saw their Spaniel, Harry, when Jenny walked him to Boots and tied him […]

Read the whole article in todays double page spread in the Daily Mail here… Boris Johnson promises ‘ruthless’ crackdown on scourge of gangs stealing our dogs | Daily Mail Online

Massive Great Dane Brewski was meant to be a guard dog, but his family say he’s scared of everything from socks to pieces of broccoli. Brewski, who’s 4ft tall and weighs 14 stone, has lived with Chris Fulton, 28, and wife Wylie, 27, since 2017 when he was a puppy. The pair originally got him […]

Can you help find a lost dog? Ozzie the cross brown/white/black beagle went missing from the Haverfordwest Race Course area on Monday, April 26. He was sighted at Portfield Gate at 1pm on the same day. Ozzie is wearing a black harness and is microchipped. Owner Georgia Jarvis has warned that Ozzie is a rescue […]

Absolutely delighted to see the Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill pass the Lords Committee Stage. All reunited stolen dogs have suffered greatly by their theft and some by their incarceration in puppy breeding establishments, we hope this will make dog thieves think about the way they treat stolen pets and that the courts take into account not […]

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A STOLEN chihuahua has been reunited with her owner two years after being taken. Burglars broke into a Gorse Hill address in October 2019 and took the female pet along with some household items. Despite their best efforts, Wiltshire Police could not find the stolen dog. Then suddenly, earlier this month, the original owner received a letter […]

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THE increase in dog thefts in Bolton and across the country is a major concern as criminals prey on owners’ beloved pets. North west volunteer police liaison officer for charity DogLost, Claire Gresty, from Bolton, said the number of reported thefts have risen rapidly in the last year. After the lockdown was introduced in March […]

A jogger has been called ‘heroic’ after rescuing a drowning dog which she spotted on her run. The woman was jogging at the side of Radcliffe Canal, in Manchester, just before it turns into the River Irwell just before 6pm on Wednesday. She saw a man walking ahead of her and when she got closer, […]

The Canine First Aid Company Ltd has been successfully running for five years but this has been the strangest year ever (dire actually) and like so many others there is seemingly a light at the end of the tunnel.  We are back and offering our courses from July onwards.  We had two courses before lockdown – Successful […]

A terrified dog owner had an axe held up to his throat as three thugs raided his home for his American bulldog puppy. David Waters, 20, and partner Caitlyn Maley, 21, only had Cairo for two weeks, and had not even taken him for his first walk. The couple now fear the dognappers spotted Cairo, […]

FOREIGN RESCUES and TRACKERS Firstly this post is NOT a dig at any foreign rescue or any dogs coming into the country where ever they are from. We are here for ALL missing dogs, but every now and then we will get a large number of overseas rescue dogs coming into the country and inevitably […]

Aricle published in Todays Daily Telegraph. Are we getting close to compulsory scanning and checking of microchips? In the Telegraph today 🥰Cats to be microchipped by law in Government crackdown on pet theftsPolice figures show that number of cats being stolen has risen by 12.3 per cent during the Covid pandemicAll 10 million cats in […]

A family has been left ‘heartbroken’ after their sausage dog was violently snatched by two men while out for a walk. One of the thieves tackled the woman to the ground before the other yanked two-year-old Minnie by the lead and bundled her into a car.  The unnamed owner reportedly heard her beloved dachshund ‘crying’ […]