Never give up hope if your beloved pooch is pinched

...because, even after YEARS had passed, these dogs all returned to their astonished owners

A STAGGERING 60 dogs are now stolen every week. Many spend the rest of their days churning out litters in miserable puppy farms as part of Britain’s £300 million dog business. In truly horrific cases, they are used as bait in dog fights.

And of these missing dogs, only one in five is ever reunited with its owners. But, just as in the family favourite film A Dog’s Way Home — currently showing in cinemas and telling the fictional tale of a lost dog’s epic 400-mile journey to find its owners — sometimes there are real-life happy endings, too. Here, owners who had all but given up hope tell how, years after their beloved dogs were taken, they were reunited in extraordinary circumstances.