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Dog Theft: How Big is The Problem and How do You Prevent The Theft of Your Dog?

Police using canine DNA data base to recover stolen dogs

How Big is The Problem? There has been a great deal of speculation recently about the massive increase in the number of dogs stolen in 2021 with estimates ranging between 2,700 and 3,000 which is equivalent to ten dogs snatched every day. So, is dog theft really on the increase, should you be worried and…

POLICE SOLVED ONLY 2% OF DOG THEFTS IN THE UK LAST YEAR

ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL POLICE FIGURES (obtained by the kennel club) of the 2,355 instances of #Dogtheft recorded by the police in 2020 less than 25 offences were solved. This figure could be even worse because of the 45 forces asked to provide the figures under a freedom of information request only 36 police forces responded.…

How to find a missing cat

There is a lot of misleading information on the internet on how to recover a missing cat and most of it is re-posted material shared by well-meaning people who are just trying to help their fellow cat lovers.