Delight as Dog Reunited With Owners After Going Missing for 7 Weeks
A friendly little Jack Russell terrier has been reunited with her delighted owners after going missing for seven weeks.
Nine-year-old Lucy had been reported stolen from Farley Mount on January 4 and suddenly turned up at Marchwood last Friday (Feb 22).
Her owners Alan and Adrianne Howarth from Hursley Road at Chandler’s Ford were overjoyed when they received a telephone call from New Forest District Council dog warden, Neil Burton, saying she was safe and well.
“I couldn’t believe it when Alan answered the phone and we discovered Lucy had been found. We had given up,” said Mrs Howarth.
Husband Alan commented: “She disappeared when she was being taken for a walk by my stepson at Farley Mount and when he drove around looking for her someone said they had seen her being put into a white van.”
They went to the police to report her being stolen and were referred to their local Winchester City Council dog warden service who registered her on the pet log micro chip data base.
Nothing was heard for seven weeks until last Friday when she was picked up in Normandy Way at Marchwood and taken to Hythe Police station who contacted dog warden, Neil Burton. Neil scanned Lucy for a microchip and discovered that she had been stolen on the 4th January 2008 from Farley Mount.
He then contacted her owners and arranged for them to meet at the council offices at Appletree Court, Lyndhurst where, in less than an hour, Lucy and her owners were reunited. They had taken her on 18 months earlier as a favour to her previous owner and Mr Howarth said: “She is very much part of our family now.”
Lucy’s return was the latest in a series of happy endings. Of 26 dogs seized by the New Forest District Council dog warden service between February 1 and February 22, 17 have been reunited with her owners.
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Oh dear, two different council dog wardens doing their job correctly. It flies in the face of critics who say they do not care or bother to check dogs for chips when they collect them. Not even the most anti dog warden hating person can have anything negative to say about this.
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