Suffolk: 83 suspected stolen dogs recovered in police raid
 

I hope they find the owners.


[The dogs were recovered from the
West Meadows traveller site on the outskirts of Ipswich]


Evil dog Thieves


https://news.sky.com/story/suffolk-8...-raid-12252822


["I would like to reassure them that we are working
as quickly as possible to identify who all the dogs
belong to and aim to reunite them with their owners as soon as we can."]

Again ~ funny its always traveller sites ~not !

Hope most of the dogs were chipped and get handed back their owners


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Hope these poor animals find their owners,cant imagine the joy in store for the owners, I hope those thieves get their just desserts but doubt it.

Hope they will be reunited with their owners some of whom will be living in Ireland

...it’s strange because when we were out yesterday, we were talking about the cost of dogs/puppies now in comparison to pre Covid and pre lockdown etc...the costs are hugely inflated atm, which we wondered if it may lead to this sort of thing ...dogs stolen to sell etc...anyway, and here we are...not too far from us...I hope that the families of those dogs are found and that they’re all reunited...

You wouldnt want your dog back after gypsies had abused it.

There were a spate of dog nappings that went on in Ireland for a time last year, dogs stopped at the ports as well

...that’s the thing, I think that they’re going to have been taken from so many different places ...there were many reported last summer to have been taken from local boarding kennels here and most of them were puppies...so dog stealing has been something that’s been growing this last year, I would say...but hopefully they are all able to be reunited or most of them...

...imagine having your family pet stolen and then that same pet be offered back to you for sale...?...that would be a possibility as well, surely...

I hope they can find the original owners of them all. I'd like to see legislation that says if you breed your pet and aren't a registered, regulated breeder, then you can only charge, say £25 per puppy.

But finding these dogs is no comfort to the people who've had dogs stolen by travellers to use as bait dogs. We've had a lot of family dogs stolen from front gardens here, old Labradors and dogs not at all suitable for breeding. I hope something gets done about this... but I doubt it.

People that take other people’s dogs to breed them to death should be put down
They are pure scum

The police need to raid every single person that’s selling puppies

Yeah loads, mainly spaniels for whatever reason

[The dogs were recovered from the
West Meadows traveller site on the outskirts of Ipswich]

:bored:

...I’m not sure how connected this is, Arista...but I’ll put it in here...I think what was ‘only a matter of time’ and strangely something that I’d only been talking about with someone before the news of many dogs being taken etc...is that the huge rise in ‘dog value’ since COVID has led to these opportunistic crimes ...dogs that were several hundred pound are now several thousand pounds ...

London’s dog-napping problem: ‘It’s only a matter of time before somebody is stabbed for their dog’...


Melina Georgiou didn’t sleep for a month. Plagued by panic attacks and restlessness, she spent 30 days in a state of high alert as she did everything in her power to find her “baby”. Her puppy, a one-year-old Maltipoo named Nala, had been snatched along with two other dogs when her dog walker’s van was stolen in February. The shock on hearing the news was so great that she couldn’t hear her own scream.

“It’s like having a family member kidnapped,” says the 27-year-old from Enfield. “But I learnt the hard way that the police don’t see it like that. I was shocked to learn how little they helped.”

Georgiou, a social media co-ordinator with a following from her make-up channel on YouTube, mobilised fast. She broadcast an appeal for help along with Nala’s photo on every platform; she contacted celebrities and influencers asking them to share it and spoke to the local press — and it worked. Earlier this month the Georgiou family wept tears of disbelief as they were reunited with their precious puppy after a phone call locating her in Surrey, 50 miles from her north London home. A police investigation is ongoing into how she ended up there.

But most victims are not so lucky. Only 30 per cent of stolen dogs make it home and one in 100 dog-snatchers are ever prosecuted. And across the capital, the problem is escalating. Demand for a pandemic puppy boomed last year, pushing prices to astronomical levels — and it’s not just new owners keen to get their hands on one. Puppies have recently become a particularly attractive prospect to thieves, both cash-hungry opportunists and more sinister organised gangs.

Incidents of dog-napping have surged during the Covid-19 crisis, rocketing by 170 per cent compared with 2019. According to DogLost, a volunteer service that works to reunite stolen and lost pets with their owners, the trend is showing no signs of slowing down. “The number of cases reported to us in January, February and March this year are already up 50 per cent compared to where we were last year,” says Justine Quirk, DogLost’s head of communications. “As 2020 was the worst year on our records for dog thefts, this is extremely worrying.”


...full article...

https://uk.yahoo.com/style/london-do...151620546.html

Yes Ammi
it's sadly getting worse

travellers again i see

Yes this case was a bad one,
just it had a better ending
all the dogs on the way home.

I know...the cost has risen dramatically which imo sadly encourages this sort of thing to happen.