Tearful moment stolen dog reunited with grateful owners after eight years

This is the tear-jerking infinitesimal a dog stolen from its plot 8 years agone was reunited with her family.

In emotionally-charged scenes, Daisy the Labrador enjoyed plentifulness of hugs from loved ones aft she was discovered 250 miles pursuing an probe by the RSPCA.

When Daisy was taken by cruel dog-nappers from the plot of her location successful agrarian Norfolk successful 2017, it sparked a nationalist outcry, an entreaty from British Hollywood prima Tom Hardy and yet a alteration successful the instrumentality to marque favored stealing a circumstantial offence.

Daisy’s aged owners, realising their agelong mislaid pet would present beryllium 13 herself, had astir mislaid each anticipation of seeing her again until thing miraculous happened.

The canine was recovered successful North Somerset and traced backmost to owners Rita and Philip Potter, and connected Thursday, the RSPCA returned Daisy backmost location and to a loving reunion with her family.

Mrs Potter, present 80, struggled to clasp backmost the tears arsenic Daisy recognised her owners and aged location - adjacent aft each this time.

Mrs Potter said "Daisy you are home", arsenic she cuddled her long-lost pet, adding: "Not knowing if she was harmless oregon if she was loved was atrocious for america and we did everything we could to find her including large appeals connected societal media which went crossed the world.

"We kept a photograph of the mantlepiece and would look astatine it each time reasoning of her and wherever she mightiness be. So it is an implicit imagination travel existent that the RSPCA recovered her and person returned her to us, wherever she belongs, we are so, truthful grateful.

"We cognize she is aged present and has wellness issues but immoderate clip she has near she volition present beryllium surrounded by tons of emotion and attention. The full household was truthful excited to perceive the quality that my grandchildren went to bargain her toys and treats, she besides present has not conscionable one, but 2 comfy beds."

Last week, Daisy was discovered by RSPCA inspector Kim Walters connected a regular probe successful Weston-super-Mare - a 250-mile thrust from her Norfolk home.

Kim saw Daisy and was acrophobic astir her information arsenic she had a fig of untreated mammary masses.

She explained: "Her proprietor claimed helium had lone had the canine for a fewer years and said helium could not instrumentality her for the vet attraction she needed truthful helium agreed to motion her implicit into the attraction of the carnal payment charity.

It was the archetypal clip Daisy had been to a vet and been scanned, and her microchip revealed who her existent owners were.

Kim said: "I contacted them and they were evidently shocked, but elated astatine the aforesaid time.

"They told maine astir each the efforts that they had gone to large lengths to effort and find her and however devastated they were erstwhile she was taken from them.

"I was a spot choked up from listening to them and intelligibly however overmuch they loved her truthful it was large telling them that we could get her backmost location soon erstwhile we had made definite she was acceptable capable to question and we had arrangements successful spot for the 4 hr travel to instrumentality place.

"Sadly though we recovered Daisy we don’t cognize who stole her and would inquire anyone with accusation to walk it to america oregon the police."

In November 2017, the theft of Daisy made nationalist news. Witnesses reported however she was taken from her plot and bundled into the backmost of a van, which was believed to person mendacious fig plates. She vanished without a trace.

The communicative of her theft and the distraught family’s appeals received the enactment of Hollywood histrion Tom Hardy and a petition was signed by much than 100,000 people.

The numbers signing triggered a statement successful Parliament astir favored theft and yet the Pet Abduction Bill was introduced successful 2024, making it a circumstantial offence for radical to bargain a canine oregon a cat.