{"id":22077,"date":"2019-01-24T18:28:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22077"},"modified":"2019-01-24T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:28:07","slug":"dog-theft-outbreak-across-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/dog-theft-outbreak-across-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog theft outbreak across Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cardiff residents are concerned about the number of dogs being stolen\u00a0across the city.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe\u00a0city&#8217;s charity ,Dog Lost, says\u00a0six dogs have already been stolen in the first few weeks of January alone. Their figures show\u00a052% of\u00a0dogs are taken from homes,\u00a019% as a result of burglary and\u00a016% while on dog walks.<br \/>\nPenny Bowers, a volunteer\u00a0from Dog Lost, says there are many reasons why people steal dogs.<br \/>\n&#8220;They might do it specifically to burglarise, and sometimes that can be specific breeds, such as French Bulldogs.<br \/>\n&#8220;So if anybody knows there&#8217;s a litter, they might go and steal it because they are going for vast amounts of money, at over a thousand pounds a puppy&#8221;.<br \/>\nShe says\u00a0Pontcanna Fields and Hailey Park are some of the targeted spaces and residents say they have noticed a blue van with two men and a woman in it attempting to take dogs from their owners.<br \/>\nSome dog walkers in Hailey Park say more needs to be done, such as\u00a0increased\u00a0police patrols in parks and\u00a0residents reporting suspicious behaviour.<br \/>\nMs. Bowers says education is important to prevent people buying dogs from unreliable websites online.<br \/>\n&#8220;Making sure where you buy your dog from is important, you should be aware about buying them from the free ads&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe recent outbreak of dog thieving in Cardiff coincides with a new bill to be discussed by MPs tomorrow.\u00a0The Pet Theft Reform aims to change\u00a0the way pet theft is dealt with by the police.<br \/>\nYou can keep up to date with the developments via #pettheftreform on Twitter.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff residents are concerned about the number of dogs being stolen\u00a0across the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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