“Something terrible has happened”
When journalist @ruskin147’s beloved Collie cross was stolen along with five others in her walker’s van, he started a social media campaign to rescue them. thetimes.co.uk/article/save-c…
When journalist @ruskin147’s beloved Collie cross was stolen along with five others in her walker’s van, he started a social media campaign to rescue them. thetimes.co.uk/article/save-c…
@ruskin147 Cellan-Jones’s wife Diane, a Cambridge professor, received a call from their dog walker Brett. His van, along with their dog Cabbage and five others, had been stolen.
“We were distraught — would we ever see our much-loved family pet again?”
Cellan-Jones’s pleas for help on Twitter quickly went viral, but despite the story spreading across social media, TV, radio and newspapers, there was no news for hours. 
“We began to face up to the likelihood that we would never see Cabbage again.”
The figures were not encouraging — less than a quarter of the nearly 1,700 dogs stolen in 2020 reported to UK police forces were returned to their owners.
After the revelation that the van could be tracked using an app, Brett and another dog owner attempted to hunt the vehicle down, but to no avail.
Then, just before 7pm, a man named Vishal Patel called Diane to let her know that he had found an ‘anxious’ Cabbage walking along a street with some of the other dogs.
“Social media may be powerful, but a Good Samaritan like Vishal who does not walk on by when they see a person or animal in trouble is even more valuable,” says @ruskin147.
Read the full story: thetimes.co.uk/article/save-c…
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