Fav Dogs to Steal

Bredabe

Stolen Dogs TOP 10 Stolen Dogs:
A friend sent me this, its from a dog training site in the west, so tks to Barry for letting him forward it for me to post.
I hope people will never feel the pain but it is a reality and with the Ballinasloe Horse fair coming up, now is the time that thieves will checking out dogs to steal to sell up at the festival. Be vigilant, Keep your dogs safe and report anything suspecious to the Gardai with the vehicle registration and details.
1) English Bulldog
2) French Bulldog
3) Chihuahua
4) German Shepherd
5)Cockapoo
5)Labradoodle
6)Pomerarian
7)Pitbull / Staffies
8) Golden Retrievers
9) Labrador Retrivers
10) Maltese / Bischon Frise

Knine

I don't really believe such lists. Labs for example are a dime a dozen. Loads of them everywhere. Any breed or type of dog is vulnerable to being stolen should the dog be left in a situation where it is an easy target. For example dogs tied up outside shops or left to roam.

anewme

Knine wrote: »

For example dogs tied up outside shops or left to roam.

I absolutely hate seeing a dog left tied up outside a shop. I often stay in the vicinity till it's owner comes back.

People need to be more mindful of the dangers of this.

Chiparus

Knine wrote: »

I don't really believe such lists. Labs for example are a dime a dozen. Loads of them everywhere. Any breed or type of dog is vulnerable to being stolen should the dog be left in a situation where it is an easy target. For example dogs tied up outside shops or left to roam.

A trained lab gun dog could be worth a lot

Very common in the UK ,

http://www.ishootmag.com/features/news/gundogs-stolen/

Some are held for ransom by people with "Irish" accents.

Knine

Chiparus wrote: »

A trained lab gun dog could be worth a lot

Very common in the UK ,

http://www.ishootmag.com/features/news/gundogs-stolen/

Some are held for ransom by people with "Irish" accents.

Thieves here tend to be opportunists and would not have a clue which dogs are field trained.

kylith

Greyhounds, lurchers, and working type terriers are always targets.

Chiparus

Knine wrote: »

Thieves here tend to be opportunists and would not have a clue which dogs are field trained.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6923825/Gun-dogs-being-targeted-by-organised-gangs.html

Knine

Chiparus wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6923825/Gun-dogs-being-targeted-by-organised-gangs.html

We are talking about Ireland in the above list.

boomerang

kylith wrote: »

Greyhounds, lurchers, and working type terriers are always targets.

Yup, for sure.

DBB

Chiparus wrote: »

A trained lab gun dog could be worth a lot

Very common in the UK ,

http://www.ishootmag.com/features/news/gundogs-stolen/

Some are held for ransom by people with "Irish" accents.

Very common? Any figures for this outside of the figure quoted for all dogs (not just working dogs) in that article which reports 150 dogs reported missing (that's missing... Not stolen) per week (in 2009) out of a population of about 9 million dogs UK-wide? That's 0.09% of the general UK dog population reported missing to this charity in 2009... A vanishingly small figure... Stolen dogs then, only make up a proportion of this figure. Stolen gundogs then, only make up a proportion of that latter figure. So, whilst I realise that the reuniting charity won't record all dogs reported missing and/or stolen, I think we need to get things in perspective here. Dogs are stolen... But it is an exceedingly small problem.

What I don't understand is, how can a stolen gundog, presumably with no papers to prove its lineage, be worth any more than any other purebred puppy without papers? Lineage is a pretty major factor for many (most?) hunters when it comes to buying a gundog puppy. Are they falsifying KC registration papers or something?
In addition, in my (somewhat limited) experience at least, many hunting folk tend to buy their pups from breeders with a provenance, breeders with a good reputation to whom they've been referred by other hunters.
So, I'm not all that sure how this claim that valuable gundogs are being stolen to breed from, or even to sell on, works on any sort of scale, when both of the above major factors are missing?

Chiparus

Knine wrote: »

We are talking about Ireland in the above list.

Sorry , the list is not sourced, I assumed it was from the UK.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/up-150-dogs-stolen-irish-6922971

Chiparus

DBB wrote: »

Very common? Any figures for this outside of the figure quoted for all dogs (not just working dogs) in that article which reports 150 dogs reported missing (that's missing... Not stolen) per week (in 2009) out of a population of about 9 million dogs UK-wide? That's 0.09% of the general UK dog population reported missing to this charity in 2009... A vanishingly small figure... Stolen dogs then, only make up a proportion of this figure. Stolen gundogs then, only make up a proportion of that latter figure. So, whilst I realise that the reuniting charity won't record all dogs reported missing and/or stolen, I think we need to get things in perspective here. Dogs are stolen... But it is an exceedingly small problem.

What I don't understand is, how can a stolen gundog, presumably with no papers to prove its lineage, be worth any more than any other purebred puppy without papers? Lineage is a pretty major factor for many (most?) hunters when it comes to buying a gundog puppy. Are they falsifying KC registration papers or something?
In addition, in my (somewhat limited) experience at least, many hunting folk tend to buy their pups from breeders with a provenance, breeders with a good reputation to whom they've been referred by other hunters.
So, I'm not all that sure how this claim that valuable gundogs are being stolen to breed from, or even to sell on, works on any sort of scale, when both of the above major factors are missing?

I was responding to the post asking why labs were stolen .

Knine

Chiparus wrote: »

Sorry , the list is not sourced, I assumed it was from the UK.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/up-150-dogs-stolen-irish-6922971

Once I seen the word 'Pet Dectective' I exited pronto.

tk123

Knine wrote: »

Once I seen the word 'Pet Dectective' I exited pronto.

That's qualified pet detective! :rolleyes::p

mymo

That article is 2 years old.
I'm in the country, very few dogs go missing here, but the large town a few miles away seems to be a daily occurrence dogs going missing.
Although often comments like "he/she usually comes back after a couple of hours" or "he/she doesn't normally go far" make me think it's partly careless owners.
I think there's a lot of scare mongering, not saying it doesn't happen, I know it does, I know of two cases.
I know any dog can get out in the blink of an eye, my own fella has escaped several times but thankfully his comfort zone seems to be 3 houses away and we notice right away because he rarely leaves our sides.