By Hayley Mortimer
Monday 27th May 2013
HERE'S a 'tail' with a happy ending - Flo the stolen border collie puppy has been found at a caravan site in Newent.
The pooch went missing when the vehicle she was sleeping in was stolen from a house in Cranham.
Her owners Lucy and James Bent immediately contacted the police when their Land Rover Discovery was taken on Wednesday, May 15, with their two dogs inside.
James, a landscape gardener, had left the dogs in the back of the 4x4 parked on a driveway while he worked at a client’s house when it was taken at 10.45am.
Efa, a one-year-old collie, was found in the garden of a house in Brockworth later that day and was returned unharmed to the couple, who live in Burleigh.
The Land Rover was found nearby in Brockworth the following day, but Flo remained missing.
The couple launched an appeal, prompting a huge response on social media, and put up posters around Gloucestershire.
Lucy and James, both 43, were beginning to lose hope but on Tuesday, May 21, they received a phone call from a man who said Flo had turned up on a caravan site in Newent.
"He said she didn’t have any tags on her collar so he looked after her for a couple of days," said Lucy, an events co-ordinator at Westonbirt.
"But when he saw the posters he called us.
"He didn’t give his name but we arranged to meet him at a petrol station in Gloucester to hand her over.
"She was dirty but she was well and clearly hadn’t been harmed.
"We will never really know what happened to her but we are just so thrilled to have them both home.
"We are so grateful for all the help we have had, it has been phenomenal."
Source: http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/10445414.Flo_the_stolen_border_collie_puppy_found_at_caravan_site_in_Newent/
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