By Imogen Howse via SWNS
A dog stolen from its home has finally been reunited with its owners – eight YEARS later.
Daisy, a Cocker Spaniel, was taken from the Mole Valley area of Surrey back in 2016 when she was just a one-year-old.
Thieves broke into the outdoor garden kennel she was housed in and snatched her along with three other working gun dogs, Surrey Police said.
Tragically, one of the dogs was hit by a car and killed as it tried to escape its captors. The two other dogs are yet to be located.
But last week, nearly eight years to the day since Daisy was stolen, police were alerted to the fact that someone had tried to update her microchip details.
Rural crime officer PC Laura Rowley immediately contacted the microchip company to obtain the details of the new owners – who she then discovered had no idea that Daisy had been stolen.
The new owners handed over Daisy, who is now slightly deaf, and following a three-hour round trip, she was finally handed over to her original owners who she “recognized immediately”.
Officers said there “was not a dry eye in the house” at the emotional reunion.
A spokesperson for the Mole Valley Safer Neighbourhood team 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 office and there was not a dry eye in the house when she was reunited with her owners.
“She recognized them immediately and stuck to them like glue!”
Sadly, the other two stolen dogs – Tilly a black working Cocker Spaniel, and Storm, a patchy white Patterdale Terrier – are still missing.
They are believed to be elderly or have possibly passed away due to their age at the time of the theft.
