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I had a pair of German Shorthaired Pointer b
hes go missing on the 20/04 from the wooton-under-edge area in Gloucestershire and no-one has seen anything of them since.
I've heard that gundog theft in rural areas is now becoming rife but was wondering whether anyone on here has had any experience of it in the past, particularly in this area?
Not wishing to lay gundog theft purely at their door but is it worth going to see the local tarmacking travelling types and asking about them?
hes go missing on the 20/04 from the wooton-under-edge area in Gloucestershire and no-one has seen anything of them since.I've heard that gundog theft in rural areas is now becoming rife but was wondering whether anyone on here has had any experience of it in the past, particularly in this area?
Not wishing to lay gundog theft purely at their door but is it worth going to see the local tarmacking travelling types and asking about them?
Edited by Lax Power on Friday 26th April 11:21
Did they go missing from your house?
I recall chatting to someone on Stinchombe Golf course, maybe a couple of year ago now, who'd had a couple of dogs stolen bys - she had seen them going and (at the time I met her) was trying to persuade the local Police to go seize them back for her
I recall chatting to someone on Stinchombe Golf course, maybe a couple of year ago now, who'd had a couple of dogs stolen by
s - she had seen them going and (at the time I met her) was trying to persuade the local Police to go seize them back for herThey disappeared at dusk on the (20/4) Saturday evening. Peach was in her bed in the house and Meg was 'helping' me with the horses. Then I turned around and Meg was gone. I thought she had gone back to her bed with Peach but upon return to the house they were gone.
They occasionally disappear for a couple of hours in the day but they always come back. They never stay out over night.
One thing that struck me as odd was the fact that they were producing milk that day but weren't showing as being pregnant.
My only conclusion is that they were having phantom pregnancies and shot off into the wood to build a den and go to ground.
The farm is quite removed so I would be surprised if they were snatched that evening. We've looked everywhere but who knows?
They occasionally disappear for a couple of hours in the day but they always come back. They never stay out over night.
One thing that struck me as odd was the fact that they were producing milk that day but weren't showing as being pregnant.
My only conclusion is that they were having phantom pregnancies and shot off into the wood to build a den and go to ground.
The farm is quite removed so I would be surprised if they were snatched that evening. We've looked everywhere but who knows?
That's worrying. 
The woman I spoke to lived on a farm, too (somewhere out Uley or Nymphsfield way, I think she said... she'd gone up to Stinchcombe Hill because she thought the Pie Keys might have been part of the traveller encampment that used to be up there.
We've got a couple of English Pointers (and a field Springer, but nobody would want to steal that that have free run of the garden when we're out, 'cos there's a dog flap in the back door, so they'd be very easy to steal.
The woman I spoke to lived on a farm, too (somewhere out Uley or Nymphsfield way, I think she said... she'd gone up to Stinchcombe Hill because she thought the Pie Keys might have been part of the traveller encampment that used to be up there.
We've got a couple of English Pointers (and a field Springer, but nobody would want to steal that that have free run of the garden when we're out, 'cos there's a dog flap in the back door, so they'd be very easy to steal.
Lax Power said:
It's been over a week now but I'm not going to give up. Just wish I could get my hands on the 'people' who took them.
Don't give up, get the word and posters/pictures to as many vets as possible.My gf's Pomerainian was stolen in Hackney, and returned 2.5 months later. Miracles do happen, fingers crossed for you.
Driving over Epsom Downs this evening, I notice everything's gearing up for the Derby. From experience, that's when dogs and cats go missing in the area.
A friend's parents had their springer stolen from the middle of a meandering private estate in Oxshott at 11PM on a Saturday night - believe me the Pie Keys know to fish where the fish are.
They wait for the reward notices to be posted up (£500 seems to be about the going rate) and then claim the money.
A friend's parents had their springer stolen from the middle of a meandering private estate in Oxshott at 11PM on a Saturday night - believe me the Pie Keys know to fish where the fish are.
They wait for the reward notices to be posted up (£500 seems to be about the going rate) and then claim the money.
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