Dog reunited with owner eight years after theft

A dog has been reunited with its owners eight years after it was stolen.

The cocker spaniel named Daisy was stolen from her home in Mole Valley, SurreyNovember 2016.

Daisy, who was one at the time, was taken along with three other working weapons dogs of the garden kennels in which they were housed.

One of the dogs was killed after being hit by a car while trying to escape.

The other two have never been located, despite efforts to find them.

The breakthrough for the reunion came on Tuesday, October 29, when Surrey Police were notified that someone had attempted to update the details on Daisy’s microchip.

National Crime Officer PC Laura Rowley immediately contacted the microchip company to obtain the new owners’ details.

Two days later, officers from Mole Valley’s Safer Neighborhoods team completed a three-hour tour to reunite Daisy with her owners in Surrey.

PC Rowley said Daisy had been rehomed “in good faith” by the new owners, who were unaware of her theft.

“We brought Daisy, who is now slightly deaf, back to the Mole Valley Safer Neighborhoods team office and there was not a dry eye in the house when she was reunited with her owners,” she said.

“She recognized them immediately and stuck to them like glue.”

Surrey Police continues to appeal for information on the whereabouts of the other missing dogs, black working cocker spaniel Tilly and spotty white Patterdale terrier Storm.

Officers say the dogs are elderly and may have died due to their age at the time of the theft.