{"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":"2019-01-24T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:59:10","slug":"dog-theft-outbreak-across-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.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><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The\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.<\/p>\n<p>Penny Bowers, a volunteer\u00a0from Dog Lost, says there are many reasons why people steal dogs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They might do it specifically to burglarise, and sometimes that can be specific breeds, such as French Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p>&#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;.<\/p>\n<p>She 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.<\/p>\n<p>Some dog walkers in Hailey Park say more needs to be done, such as\u00a0increased\u00a0police patrols in parks and\u00a0residents reporting suspicious behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Bowers says education is important to prevent people buying dogs from unreliable websites online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Making sure where you buy your dog from is important, you should be aware about buying them from the free ads&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 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.<\/p>\n<p>You can keep up to date with the developments via #pettheftreform on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&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":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22077"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22171,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions\/22171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}