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05-05-2010, 11:15 AM | #1 |
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| What's The Point In Microchipping! Police find nine-year-old girl's stolen pet puppy... but say she can't have it back After saving up for months for a pedigree puppy, Leanne Stewart did the sensible thing and had her new pet microchipped. So when the mother-of-two's Chinese shar pei Millie was stolen from her back garden, she at least had the comfort of hoping she would eventually be returned to them. It took more than six months but, eventually, the £750 puppy was traced. Miss Stewart - and more importantly her nine-year-old daughter Megan - were expecting an emotional reunion with the pet. But this has been dashed by police. They have been told that they cannot take Millie off the new owner because the man bought the dog in good faith - despite the microchip proving she is Miss Stewart's. Now she faces the agonising choice between a lengthy - and potentially expensive - legal battle or accepting she will never see her puppy again. Yesterday the 31-year-old told how the bitter blow had only added to the heartache caused to Megan and one-year-old Kayden, following the death of their father at Christmas. Animal charities say pedigree puppies are particularly targeted by thieves and urge all dog owners to have their pets chipped. But they admit that this provides no guarantee that a stolen dog will be returned to its lawful owner. Miss Stewart said the family's joy at being told Millie had been found quickly turned to despair. She said: 'When they called I thought that would be it, we would get the dog back. 'At the end of the day she's my dog, she's been stolen. I bought Millie, I have got the papers for her and she is registered in my name. I just can't understand it. 'What's the point in chipping them?' Miss Stewart said she and her painter-decorator partner, Simon McDonald, saved up for a year to buy the puppy with its distinctive wrinkly, apricot-coloured skin, arranging for her to be microchipped for peace of mind. But just three weeks after picking her up last June, Millie vanished from the back garden of their home in Bolton. The couple's daughter was devastated by the beloved pet's disappearance, and they hunted throughout the neighbourhood and put up poignant home-made posters in case she had simply escaped and run off. They reported the theft to police, but nothing had been heard. In December, Mr McDonald died of a brain haemorrhage. Last month the mourning family were told Millie had been found nearly 30 miles away in the Croxteth area of Liverpool, and Miss Stewart began preparing for her return. But now they have been told that, because no charges are being pressed against a 42-year-old man who had been arrested on suspicion of theft, police cannot intervene further. Miss Stewart now faces going to court if she is ever to be reunited with Millie. She said: 'It's really upset me and my kids, who keep asking me when Millie is coming back. The police have not given me any advice. 'If someone had stolen a car and police had found that, they would give it back. But this man is saying he bought my dog without knowing it was stolen and he thinks he has a claim on her. 'Megan has been saying, "When's it coming back, are we getting it back?". I've got a picture of Millie on the fireplace and she just looks at it saying, "I miss my daddy and my dog, when is it coming back?".' A spokeswoman for the RSPCA said such cases were 'extremely rare' and urged dog owners not to be dissuaded from having their pets chipped. 'It must be extremely upsetting for the family, but without a microchip it is impossible to definitely trace a lost or stolen pet,' she said. 'We've had people reunited with their dogs after seven years or more as a result.' Greater Manchester Police said it was no longer investigating the alleged theft, with a spokesman adding: 'This is now a civil matter Police find nine-year-old girl's stolen pet puppy - but say she can't have it back | Mail Online |
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05-05-2010, 03:59 PM | #2 |
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| What is the man thinking? What was the police thinking????
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05-26-2010, 05:41 AM | #3 |
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| Have you got any legal protection on your home insurance Mitchell? Most people have. I know someone who took a person to court and her home insurance paid all the costs and because she won her case the other party had to refund to the insurance company. I haven't had my Teddy chipped but he is getting old and doesn't go out much and never off lead.. In this area lots of dogs have been stolen from back gardens. Word has it that it is 'travellers' who sell them on. Our garden is very secure. However a man once knocked at the door and offered to relay our very large drive for £30 saying he had some motorway tarmac left over. I said no thanks but he was trying to look round me into the house. When I looked back Teddy was sitting in the hallway. The man said "That's a nice little dog" . I became suspicious so told him Teddy was very old and very sick and had been neutered. The man then left but I've often wondered if he was on the look out for dogs to steal. |
05-26-2010, 06:54 AM | #4 |
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| that is so sad. I would think that if you could prove the dog is yours, you would get it back??? Shouldn't the person who bought the dog have some kind of reciept showing that he did buy the dog in a "legitamate" transaction? Without having a receipt of sale, I would tend to think it is a "buyer beware" problem on his part. I hope this gets resolved and the original family could get their dog back.
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07-18-2010, 03:42 PM | #6 |
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| My Willie is chipped, it was a deal the vet was doing, get him chipped for half price when the neutering was getting done. After reading this, I'm wondering, what was the point? Like that owner, I have all his papers, he's registered in my name, he's chipped, he should be mine! Mind you, we're all advised to never let our dogs out in the garden unattended... If this girl's dog was unattended, it wouldn't have helped matters. |
07-18-2010, 05:09 PM | #7 |
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| That's just not right. He's her dog and she can prove it. Too bad for the guy who bought a stolen dog. That's my opinion anyways.... |
07-18-2010, 07:56 PM | #8 |
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| How sad for this family! I don't know what the laws are there, but here, the vet who disappears with your pet into another room is scanning to see if the animal is microchipped. I think if this were me, I would pursue it in civil court. That is when I'd think the dog would be returned to it's rightful owners, and the man who purchased it would be out of luck. Worst part is, that this man who has the dog feels he somehow has claim to it, and surely knows at this point he purchased a stolen dog, and worse, the stolen dog of a child who misses her puppy. sigh. Sadly enough, our world is filled with people who use that childhood saying as their truth: "finders keepers, losers weepers". If this man had one ounce of decency, he'd return the pup to whom it belongs to. |
07-19-2010, 07:10 AM | #9 |
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| This is ridiculous & I can't understand it at all. After all, here in the UK, if you buy a car & it turns out to have been stolen you have no claim on it at all & it's returned to the original owner, or the insurance company. Doesn't matter how many thousands of pounds you've paid for it. |
07-25-2010, 02:43 PM | #10 |
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| I agree, Meggie. It seems completely ridiculous! I thought it was 'buyer beware' in this country. I can't get over this - it seems microchipping is just a waste of money |
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