| Dog thefts 09:38 - Jul 29 with 17004 views | clive_baker |
What's all this then that I'm hearing?
The old dear is now more petrified someone's coming to steal the dog than she is of Covid. As for the old man, he's got the shot gun ready.
Reports in their village of some people knocking on doors in the middle of the night, allegedly to see if there are dogs inside with a view to coming back for them. These people make me sick. |  |
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| Dog thefts on 09:41 - Jul 29 with 8484 views | footers |
And don't get started on those cat burglars either... |  |
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| Dog thefts on 09:43 - Jul 29 with 8472 views | Bluefish |
East Anglia has been horrendously hit with dog thefts over recent months including 17 stolen in Barton Mills in one go.
We bought our cockapoo 2.5 years ago and they ranged from £800-£1500 at the time. As soon as lockdown hit the price had cleared £2500 and often over £3k.
I still see people tying their dogs up and leaving them outside shops. You wouldn't leave a £800 phone or a £500 laptop unattended outside a shop and you wouldn't leave your baby or toddler but some people think it is ok to leave their dog |  |
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| Dog thefts on 09:49 - Jul 29 with 8449 views | clive_baker |
| Dog thefts on 09:43 - Jul 29 by Bluefish |
East Anglia has been horrendously hit with dog thefts over recent months including 17 stolen in Barton Mills in one go.
We bought our cockapoo 2.5 years ago and they ranged from £800-£1500 at the time. As soon as lockdown hit the price had cleared £2500 and often over £3k.
I still see people tying their dogs up and leaving them outside shops. You wouldn't leave a £800 phone or a £500 laptop unattended outside a shop and you wouldn't leave your baby or toddler but some people think it is ok to leave their dog |
Yeah I find that mad. I think there's something quite nice about it, in that we should live in a world where you should feel comfortable to tie your dog to a lamppost and leave them outside a shop, but I'm surprised people still do given the amount of c**** about.
I've heard reports of some people finding chalk marks on their door / gate etc. Apparently the common denominator is they're households with dogs, to mark them out for them to come back later and pinch.
As I say, my mum is petrified given there's been reported activity in her village. | |
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| Dog thefts on 09:52 - Jul 29 with 8441 views | Keno |
| Dog thefts on 09:49 - Jul 29 by clive_baker |
Yeah I find that mad. I think there's something quite nice about it, in that we should live in a world where you should feel comfortable to tie your dog to a lamppost and leave them outside a shop, but I'm surprised people still do given the amount of c**** about.
I've heard reports of some people finding chalk marks on their door / gate etc. Apparently the common denominator is they're households with dogs, to mark them out for them to come back later and pinch.
As I say, my mum is petrified given there's been reported activity in her village. |
there has been a spate of it near where I am with lots of warning as to what to look out for.
some people are just scum |  |
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| Dog thefts on 09:58 - Jul 29 with 8423 views | GeoffSentence |
| Dog thefts on 09:43 - Jul 29 by Bluefish |
East Anglia has been horrendously hit with dog thefts over recent months including 17 stolen in Barton Mills in one go.
We bought our cockapoo 2.5 years ago and they ranged from £800-£1500 at the time. As soon as lockdown hit the price had cleared £2500 and often over £3k.
I still see people tying their dogs up and leaving them outside shops. You wouldn't leave a £800 phone or a £500 laptop unattended outside a shop and you wouldn't leave your baby or toddler but some people think it is ok to leave their dog |
There have been dog thefts in Suffolk, but there has also been a lot of hysteria about it. My face book feed is currently clogged up with stuff about it.
The same picture of the same two men and a van who might be selling dodgy fish or might be stealing dogs keeps popping up time and time again, though they are always acting suspiciously and not actually known to have nicked a dog. The number of posts about missing dogs has gone through the roof too, but almost always they are from far flung parts of the country.
Aside from the dog kennels that was targetted and all the dogs stolen in one go, the only tangible thing that seems to be happening is people finding chalk marks on their walls. |  |
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| Dog thefts on 10:04 - Jul 29 with 8406 views | TIB |
I've seen reports of people driving around areas in East Midlands and marking properties with chalk and bits to say there's a dog inside a property, then monitoring them to come back. Absolute scumbags. Glad to hear Clive Snr is ready and awaiting to redirect them. |  |
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| Dog thefts on 10:21 - Jul 29 with 8374 views | BryanPlug |
| Dog thefts on 09:43 - Jul 29 by Bluefish |
East Anglia has been horrendously hit with dog thefts over recent months including 17 stolen in Barton Mills in one go.
We bought our cockapoo 2.5 years ago and they ranged from £800-£1500 at the time. As soon as lockdown hit the price had cleared £2500 and often over £3k.
I still see people tying their dogs up and leaving them outside shops. You wouldn't leave a £800 phone or a £500 laptop unattended outside a shop and you wouldn't leave your baby or toddler but some people think it is ok to leave their dog |
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| Dog thefts on 10:26 - Jul 29 with 8360 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Dog thefts on 09:58 - Jul 29 by GeoffSentence |
There have been dog thefts in Suffolk, but there has also been a lot of hysteria about it. My face book feed is currently clogged up with stuff about it.
The same picture of the same two men and a van who might be selling dodgy fish or might be stealing dogs keeps popping up time and time again, though they are always acting suspiciously and not actually known to have nicked a dog. The number of posts about missing dogs has gone through the roof too, but almost always they are from far flung parts of the country.
Aside from the dog kennels that was targetted and all the dogs stolen in one go, the only tangible thing that seems to be happening is people finding chalk marks on their walls. |
Even with the chalk marks though any picture I’ve seen on FB just looks like any whitish scuff to me rather than a specific chalk mark that could be used as signal
Not to mention that it seems rather far fetched - rather than just making a note of houses on a piece of paper or a phone...
Not saying there haven’t been instances and clearly dog owners should practice some common sense precautions, but no doubt that most of what is being posted on social media is ill-informed hysteria |  |
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| Dog thefts on 10:31 - Jul 29 with 8338 views | Libero |
| Dog thefts on 10:21 - Jul 29 by BryanPlug |
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Dogs are a fashion item to a lot of people, they want X breed etc.
I can't believe anyone would pay the figures being banded about in this thread, but I know they do, the inlaws have done in the past, absurd. |  | | |
| Dog thefts on 10:36 - Jul 29 with 8308 views | uefacup81 |
| Dog thefts on 10:21 - Jul 29 by BryanPlug |
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Snazzy marketing.
The kind of dogs that ten/twenty years ago would have simply been seen as either mongrels or, at best, an X/Y-cross have been given trendy names and price-tags to match.
A cockapoo/labradoodle/puggle/schnoodle is simply a mongrel with a PR budget. [Post edited 29 Jul 2020 10:36]
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| Dog thefts on 10:38 - Jul 29 with 8292 views | TIB |
| Dog thefts on 10:31 - Jul 29 by Libero |
Dogs are a fashion item to a lot of people, they want X breed etc.
I can't believe anyone would pay the figures being banded about in this thread, but I know they do, the inlaws have done in the past, absurd. |
Give me a hardy terrier any day...non of this Poodle-Bernard-Hua malarkey!!! | |
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| Dog thefts on 10:40 - Jul 29 with 8275 views | Bluefish |
| Dog thefts on 10:36 - Jul 29 by uefacup81 |
Snazzy marketing.
The kind of dogs that ten/twenty years ago would have simply been seen as either mongrels or, at best, an X/Y-cross have been given trendy names and price-tags to match.
A cockapoo/labradoodle/puggle/schnoodle is simply a mongrel with a PR budget. [Post edited 29 Jul 2020 10:36]
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I do love this sort of nonsense.
All dogs are some sort of mongrel. Some dogs are just bred to be particularly cute, clever, small etc | |
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| Dog thefts on 10:41 - Jul 29 with 8264 views | Bluefish |
| Dog thefts on 10:21 - Jul 29 by BryanPlug |
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start of lockdown it was one of the few things you could do. Plus people working from home now having more time for a dog. | |
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| Dog thefts on 10:41 - Jul 29 with 8264 views | LankHenners |
Number's probably gone up a bit since that was posted. I know for a fact the stealing of multiple dogs from the same kennels happened after that.
The chalk thing is very much real but the issue is that, from what I gather, kids are going round putting chalk marks outside people's houses as a joke which obviously makes it look worse than it is. |  |
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| Dog thefts on 10:42 - Jul 29 with 8252 views | BloomBlue |
| Dog thefts on 10:21 - Jul 29 by BryanPlug |
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Supply and demand. Loads of people are at home with WFH or furlough and now have the time for a dog, This equals lots of people looking for a puppy/dog at a time when supply hasn't increased hence price goes through the roof and therefore people see an opportunity to make some money (illegally).
Give it a few months when everyone is back to normal and the dog rescue hones will be overflowing with those same dogs as 'unwanted dogs' as people find the dogs are destructive as no one in the household now has the time to walk them |  | | |
| Dog thefts on 10:44 - Jul 29 with 8234 views | Libero |
| Dog thefts on 10:42 - Jul 29 by BloomBlue |
Supply and demand. Loads of people are at home with WFH or furlough and now have the time for a dog, This equals lots of people looking for a puppy/dog at a time when supply hasn't increased hence price goes through the roof and therefore people see an opportunity to make some money (illegally).
Give it a few months when everyone is back to normal and the dog rescue hones will be overflowing with those same dogs as 'unwanted dogs' as people find the dogs are destructive as no one in the household now has the time to walk them |
Step sister works for the RSPCA, rest assured the dog rescue homes were overflowing before, during and after lockdown...
They're just expensive as people consider them a fashion item, it's been that way for quite a few years. In reality you could just rehome a dog and it'd cost you peanuts, but then you can't say you've got your pooch-a-poo-cross-w@nker-dog. | | | |
| Dog thefts on 10:45 - Jul 29 with 8218 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Dog thefts on 10:41 - Jul 29 by LankHenners |
Number's probably gone up a bit since that was posted. I know for a fact the stealing of multiple dogs from the same kennels happened after that.
The chalk thing is very much real but the issue is that, from what I gather, kids are going round putting chalk marks outside people's houses as a joke which obviously makes it look worse than it is. |
The article says 12 instances rather than 12 dogs - and looking at the website it looks to have been either posted or updated after the Barton Mills thefts so they will be included | |
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| Dog thefts on 10:46 - Jul 29 with 8216 views | Libero |
| Dog thefts on 10:04 - Jul 29 by TIB |
I've seen reports of people driving around areas in East Midlands and marking properties with chalk and bits to say there's a dog inside a property, then monitoring them to come back. Absolute scumbags. Glad to hear Clive Snr is ready and awaiting to redirect them. |
Have these fellas not heard of rain? Someone needs to introduce them to spray paint. | | | |
| Dog thefts on 10:49 - Jul 29 with 8185 views | Bluefish |
| Dog thefts on 10:45 - Jul 29 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
The article says 12 instances rather than 12 dogs - and looking at the website it looks to have been either posted or updated after the Barton Mills thefts so they will be included |
That is a lot plus many of the ones I saw were in Cambridgeshire and other surrounding counties. There is definitely an issue in EA at the moment | |
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| Dog thefts on 10:50 - Jul 29 with 8178 views | BloomBlue |
| Dog thefts on 10:46 - Jul 29 by Libero |
Have these fellas not heard of rain? Someone needs to introduce them to spray paint. |
spray paint is graffiti, chalk isn't, you need to learn the ways of the burglar they never like to break the law until they actually break in | | | |
| Dog thefts on 10:52 - Jul 29 with 8164 views | LankHenners |
| Dog thefts on 10:45 - Jul 29 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
The article says 12 instances rather than 12 dogs - and looking at the website it looks to have been either posted or updated after the Barton Mills thefts so they will be included |
That's Geoff's fault.
It's timestamped at 25/06/2020. | |
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| Dog thefts on 10:54 - Jul 29 with 8146 views | Libero |
| Dog thefts on 10:50 - Jul 29 by BloomBlue |
spray paint is graffiti, chalk isn't, you need to learn the ways of the burglar they never like to break the law until they actually break in |
Fine, stickers then.
Hilarious that people think that this still happens really, isn't it? I remember my Nan used to bang on about "gypsies" doing similar.
I love the idea that a couple of grifters go out for a hard day's work marking homes with chalk in preparation for their evil plans, only for it to p1ss down and their work to have gone for waste.
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| Dog thefts on 10:57 - Jul 29 with 8125 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Dog thefts on 10:52 - Jul 29 by LankHenners |
That's Geoff's fault.
It's timestamped at 25/06/2020. |
Yes, it’s July now isn’t it... 😳 | |
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| Dog thefts on 10:58 - Jul 29 with 8116 views | LankHenners |
Nearly Christmas. | |
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