Daisy reunited with her owners 8 years after she was stolen
6th November 2024
A Cocker Spaniel called Daisy has been reunited with her owners eight years after she was stolen from home in Mole Valley, Surrey.
Daisy, who was one at the time, was stolen along with three other dogs in November 2016 from her home in Mole Valley. Thieves took the working gun dogs from the garden kennels.
Tragically, one of the dogs was killed after being hit by a car as it tried to escape, and the other two were stolen. The dogs could not be located despite best efforts from officers.
In a surreal turn of events, and nearly eight years to the day since Daisy was taken, officers were alerted that someone had tried to update her microchip details.
Surrey Police rural crime officer PC Laura Rowley immediately contacted the microchip company to obtain the details of the new owners.
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Not a dry eye in the house
Just two days later, officers from the Mole Valley Safer Neighbourhood team completed a three-hour round trip to bring Daisy back to her owners.
They said: “Daisy had been rehomed in good faith by the new owners, and they were unaware of the theft of Daisy.
“We brought Daisy, who is now slightly deaf, back to the Mole Valley Safer Neighbourhood Team Office and there was not a dry eye in the house when she was reunited with her owners. She recognised them immediately and stuck to them like glue.”
Sadly, the other dogs, Tilly a black working Cocker Spaniel, and Storm a patchy white Patterdale Terrier, remain missing, and are believed to be elderly or have possibly passed away due to their age at the time of the theft.
If you have any information that may be relevant, please contact Surrey Police, quoting PR/45160097926.
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